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Dispensary and Governance Pharmacy Technician
Band 5
Main area: Pharmacy
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday, early and late shifts, weekend & Bank holidays as per rota)
Job ref: 321-CSS-7045138-B5
Site: John Radcliffe Hospital
Town: Oxford
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum/pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/04/2025 23:59
Interview date: 07/05/2025
Job overview
Hello! My name is Alice Smilie. I am the Operational Manager of the John Radcliffe Pharmacy. I am privileged to lead our very hardworking, friendly, and committed Dispensary team in providing a dispensary service, supplying inpatient, outpatient, and discharge medication to Patients of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated Registered Pharmacy Technician with a positive outlook to join our team, supporting our Dispensary & working within Governance. This candidate will need to have a positive and responsible attitude to work who can demonstrate good communication skills, team working, positivity and confidence in dealing with a changing work environment and processes and who is able to utilise their skills and experiences across all areas of the role.
Within this role you will receive full training to become an Accredited Checking Technician, and you will be trained to investigate incidents that have occurred and respond to these accordingly, allowing you to progress to band 5 on completion of these. You will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills, working jointly with the Pharmacy Operational team to provide key co-ordinator support to the Dispensary team.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacy Technician role is varied and requires flexibility in your approach to work, supporting both dispensary, stores and ward based work on the John Radcliffe Hospital site. The successful applicant will be required to assist in the smooth running of the dispensary, providing co-ordinator support to the dispensary team together with our Senior Technicians, or in the absence of the Senior Technician, and at weekends. You will support the training and induction of new members of the team, pharmacy apprentices, trainee technicians and pharmacists working alongside you.
This post is ideal for a Pharmacy Technician looking to gain further experience within a hospital dispensary setting, with a keen interest in patient safety and governance issues. The candidate will be required to work jointly within the Pharmacy Operational and Governance teams in the following key areas:
* Providing regular dispensing/checking duties as directed by the Senior Technicians.
* Assisting in training and induction of new members of staff.
* Investigating incidents and errors and contributing to change in practice and staff learning.
* Conducting audits and reporting on findings.
* Supporting the Operational Team in implementing safety related projects and initiatives across all sites.
* Collating dispensary workload statistics and reports.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The dispensary team is a friendly and hardworking team of 28 staff ranging from band 2 Assistants through to band 7 Technicians. Many of our dispensary based Technicians later go on to become Ward based band 5 Technicians or take other roles within the wider Pharmacy team and this role is ideal for gaining that experience to progress further in your career.
This is a full-time dispensary based position, 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with working hours of 9:00-17:15, however flexible working options would also be considered. You will also be required to participate in weekend working on a 1:6 rota basis, bank holiday, early and late duty rotas as per rota.
If you are interested in an informal discussion about this role, we would be very happy to hear from you. You are welcome to call the number below, or to make an appointment so that we can show you around and answer your questions.
Please refer to the attached job description for further detailed information regarding the role and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Essential/Desirable
* Qualified Pharmacy Technician, registered with the GPhC holding an NVQ Level 3 or other relevant qualification.
* At least 1 years post qualification experience.
* Demonstrable time management, organisational, written and oral communication skills.
* Familiar with principles and practices of risk management.
* Appropriately assertive and confident.
* Willing to travel between sites.
* Ability to teach staff of all levels.
* Responsive to direction and constructive feedback.
* Basic all round knowledge of Pharmacy Department.
* Tidy and smart appearance and adherence to dress code.
* Enthusiastic, adaptable, flexible and able to demonstrate an ability to work independently and as part of a team under pressure.
* Uses own initiative and can work alone.
* Good all round understanding of medicines safety and the Pharmacy Service.
* NVQ Assessor.
* Knowledge of incident reporting system and analysing data.
* Experience of data analysis and able to interpret and present data clearly using appropriate media.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name: Alice Smilie
Job title: Operational Manager, JR Dispensary
Email address: alice.smilie@ouh.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01865 221502
Myself, Hannah Newton-Oakes, Rebecca Somerville or Charlotte Woodward, Senior Technicians, will be happy to discuss the position and any questions you may have.
01865 227853
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