Pharmacy Technician

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be expected to provide assistance in the provision of pharmacy and medicine management services at EMAS.

The job purpose is:

• To improve the safe and efficient supply of medicines to ambulance crews.
• To communicate with other members of the Pharmacy and clinical team to facilitate a seamless service that does not impact 999 service delivery.
• To assist in medication incident reporting, investigation and learning from medication incidents to promote the safe use of medication across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job include:

1. Oversee the production of medicine response bags and prepare paperwork ensuring accurate data entry.
2. Support medicines management assistants to fill medicine response bags ensuring each item is accurately dispensed, and in the correct packaging, according to SOPs.
3. Accurately record the batch numbers and expiry dates of medications according to Pharmaceutical guidelines.
4. Complete endorsement of appropriate paperwork on completion of the medicines management process.
5. Communicate any delays in supply to the appropriate person.
6. Accurately check medicines delivered from suppliers into stock holding.
7. Resolve queries relating to medications, referring when necessary to the Pharmacist.
8. Prioritise any urgent requests, communicating the urgency to the medicines management team, to ensure the timely receipt of medications to ambulance crews.

About us

East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides emergency, urgent and non-emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire). We have over 70 locations, 500+ vehicles, a range of specialist medical devices and over 2700 employees supported by 1500 volunteers.

Person Specification

Experience

• Pharmaceutical knowledge and experience
• Experience of working as part of a team

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.