Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
About
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
We provide high quality, friendly and effective community health services from some 60 sites including Health Centres and GP surgeries. Covering Walsall and beyond, our multidisciplinary services include rapid response in the community and home-based care, so that those with long-term conditions and the frail and elderly can remain in their own homes to be cared for wherever appropriate.
We are recommended by colleagues as a place to work which is supported by the trusts values to work as part of a team, being respectful, compassionate, and professional. We are committed to investing in our workforce.
The work we do is highly rewarding, and in addition to an attractive salary, we offer a valuable range of benefits, including salary sacrifice scheme; car leasing scheme; on-site staff accommodation (subject to availability); the ability to retain your NHS pension (where applicable) or the opportunity to join an alternative scheme; and the opportunity to develop and implement your expertise in an encouraging yet challenging environment.
We would particularly welcome applications from people from a Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic background and from people with a disability; these groups are currently under-represented at senior level. We value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.
We support a range of flexible working for all employees and prospective applicants. The Trust works collaboratively with Black Country and West Birmingham Integrated Care Systems. Our objective is supporting ongoing flexible working across the partnership and transforming our workforce so that it is flexible and consistent as we redesign services for our integrated future.
Key details
Location
Site: Walsall Manor Hospital, Pharmacy Department
Address: Moat Road, Walsall, WS2 9PS
Major / Minor Region: Birmingham & The Black Country
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent (Includes late working and bank holidays and weekends on rotation)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Late nights, weekends, and bank holidays on a rota basis.)
Salary
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
Be a qualified pharmacy technician and have GPHC registration or the ability to register in September/October 2024. Have the enthusiasm to gain further experience whilst carrying out a broad range of duties including drug history taking, assessment of patient's own drugs supply of medicines, supply of medicines, dispensing and issuing of medicines, aseptic preparation, procurement and distribution and stock control within the Pharmacy Department and across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To participate in the rotational technician rota within the department and provide pharmaceutical services in all areas, to include:
* Dispensary services
* Ward based medicines management
* Aseptic preparation
* Pharmacy Procurement and Distribution
To operate at all times within the local Standard Operating Procedures relevant to the area of work. To receive, interpret, validate, dispense and issue routine and non-routine prescriptions for in-patients and out-patients, external hospices, controlled drug dispensing, seeking advice from senior staff where appropriate.
To dispense and self-check medications both manually and with the use of a computerised automated dispensing system. To undertake the receipt of prescriptions direct from patients, operating the cash register and receiving monies and card payments from the general public.
To take all appropriate action to ensure that patients receive the correct medication, with advice and counselling and that all directions associated with medicines are fully understood.
To prepare aseptic products after training and completion of a broth test. This will require manipulation within an isolator to produce:
* Cytotoxic reconstitution
* ad hoc
To participate in the work in pharmacy stores, including the ordering of pharmaceuticals, goods receipt, invoice reconciliation and the maintenance of the Homecare Patient service.
To participate in the supply, distribution and return of stock to and from wards, departments and community clinics including:
* The top-up service
* Automated cupboard replenishment
To provide a ward-based stock control service as necessary, working with the appropriate ward pharmacist, technician and nursing staff to ensure efficient ward stock control.
To dispense and record appropriate details, according to written protocols for unlicensed and named patient medicines within pharmacy.
To dispense and replenish controlled drugs completing the necessary legal documentation. To work on wards completing the following tasks:
* Drug histories
* Patients Own Drugs (PODs) assessment
* Medication supply
* Locker checks
Completing in-house Medicines Management Training pack.
After 1 year post qualification and having 6 months experience working within the dispensary, to work towards gaining Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician status (ACPT) and complete the final accuracy of medicines prior to issue to patient.
To dispose of medicines if unsuitable for use according to SOPs working under the supervision of a technician or pharmacist. To arrange for medicines to be re-labelled where necessary working to local SOPs under the supervision of a registered technician or pharmacist.
To demonstrate on request appropriate tasks to unqualified and support staff. To participate in education and training programmes when appropriate and ensure that accurate records are kept of Continuous Professional Development, to ensure continued registration.
To develop skills and knowledge in order to extend the professional service offered by pharmacy technicians to patients and staff within the Trust. To undertake the in-house rotational technician training programme, passing competencies proving ability in each area.
To provide feedback on procedures when requested to by the Senior, Lead and Operational Technician(s). To participate in the provision of extended hours of service, including late night working, Saturdays and Sundays and bank holidays, according to formal rota arrangements.
To report any suspected or observed defects in medicinal products and equipment to the appropriate person. To be familiar with, and maintain, safe standards of work and adequate records of all processes.
To have due regard for, and to conform at all times with, those aspects of the General Pharmaceutical Council Code of Professional Ethics that apply to technical and support staff. To have due regard for all statutory guidance applicable to the pharmacy, including Health and Safety at Work, Manual Handling and the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH).
To maintain at all times the rules relating to patient confidentiality. To maintain a clean and tidy department, organising the removal of waste to designated areas and transferring them for incineration.
To have due regard for the Trust policies on discrimination. This list of duties is not exhaustive, and is subject to review at all times and in particular in the light of further developments in pharmaceutical services.
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