Senior Pharmacy Technician – Management Support

Transformationunitgm; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job description

Band 5

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Job overview

Permanent (37.5 hours a week including weekend commitments)

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated and ambitious Senior Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic operational Team. The post holder must be keen to learn and develop with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

At Barts Health we take pride in developing our staff to progress. Within the Pharmacy department, we offer several opportunities to do this. You will participate in training initiatives to meet both individual and departmental goals. You will be provided with supervisors, training, and support throughout the process. Barts Health, being the largest Trust in the UK, is committed to training Pre-registration Pharmacy technicians every year, giving a large amount of opportunities for successful candidates to develop within the Pharmacy Technician career pathway, so you will be helping to develop their skills.

You will be part of the senior pharmacy technician operational management team to assist with managing workflow, meeting KPIs and line management responsibilities to ensure the smooth running of the dispensary and be a role model within the operational team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support to manage a team of pharmacy assistants and trainee pharmacy assistants. They will deliver patient-focused, quality care, based at Royal London Hospital.

To enable pharmacy to have patients’ needs at the center of the service, the post holder will be moving away from a traditional dispensary and medicines management services delivery model by utilising skills and knowledge from both areas to become one multi-skilled team in all aspects of pharmacy service delivery – dispensary and medicine management services. They will jointly work on the wards and deliver quality care to patients at ward level through efficient medicines optimization as well as support the management of dispensary on a rotational basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience of working in a hospital or community pharmacy setting
• Significant experience as a pharmacy technician
• Experience of supervising others and providing feedback for development
• Experience of pharmacy labelling and stock control systems
• Patient counselling
• Experience of organising a service on a day-to-day basis
• Experience of holding regular team meetings
• Experience of giving feedback
• Experience of hospital stock distribution and top-up services.
• Medicines management experience in a ward-based setting, e.g. medication history taking, POD assessment etc.

Skills

• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
• IT literate and able to use Microsoft office.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Interpret and dispense prescriptions accurately
• Organisation and prioritisation of workload
• Ability to problem solve
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Methodical attention to detail
• Good numeracy skills. Able to perform pharmaceutical calculations.

Qualifications

• Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Practice Supervisor, Train the trainer or equivalent qualification
• ILM Level 2 or level 3 Leadership and Management qualification or equivalent

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we actively support applications from individuals who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

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.