Main area: pharmacy
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Allocated weekend, bank holiday and late rota)
Job ref: 390-CSS-BA-9356
Employer: Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Basildon
Town: Basildon
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata for part time)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/11/2024 23:59
Near patient pharmacy technician
Band 5
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest trusts in the country, serving a population of 1.2 million people comprising acute hospital sites at Broomfield in Chelmsford, Basildon and Southend.
We are a well-led, high-performing and innovative organisation determined to provide the best health care services for our local population and working in the best interests of the people we serve.
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to make a difference to patient care within a hospital setting?
An opportunity has arisen within the Pharmacy Department at the Basildon site for a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacy technician.
We are looking for a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician dependent on experience, registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council, to join our department. The post holder will actively participate in the delivery of a wide range of pharmacy services including Dispensary services, Medicine Management and Optimisation.
The right applicants will be dedicated, hard working individuals that work well in a team environment as well as under own initiative. Attention to detail and organisational skills are essential.
Main duties of the job
* Communicate drug or medicine related information to patients, relatives and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
* Communicate with ward staff to ensure timely supply of medicines.
* Transcribe clinically screened items to order.
* Participate in discharge planning with patients, ward staff and other healthcare professionals in secondary and primary care to ensure timely discharge and seamless care post discharge.
* Provide advice to patients in written or verbal format to encourage compliance.
* Assess the suitability of patients’ own medicines for continued use during their hospital stay.
* Responsible for the ordering of medicines to the wards under their responsibility, adhering to formulary.
* Ensure ward handover to covering Technician in absence.
Dispensary Services
* Review prescriptions, dispense and safely supply drugs to patients, ensuring all pertinent information is entered into the department’s pharmacy stock control system.
* Perform final accuracy check on dispensed products following completion of the ACT scheme.
* Contribute to the maintenance of good stock control within the dispensary.
* Receive, issue and check controlled drugs.
Working for our organisation
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.
We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We want to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.
We offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, as well as the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description, but some of the responsibilities include:
* Provide a cost effective and efficient medicines management service to wards and patients.
* Participate in staff training.
* Spend a proportion of your day within dispensary services.
Person specification
Qualifications
* GPHC registration
Experience
* BTEC / NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical science
* Hospital experience
Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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