Senior Clinical Pharmacy Technician- Olyan Day Unit

An excellent development opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and committed individual to gain specialised oncology skills in a clinical role. We are looking for a motivated pharmacy technician to join our diverse Clinical Pharmacy team to develop and deliver an advanced, patient-centred medicines pharmacy service on the Olayan day unit.

You will be a key member of staff working within the Day Unit helping to deliver an effective and safe service by counselling the patients on all their supportive medication and oral chemotherapy.

You must have excellent communicational skills, the ability to work on your own as well as within a team and be highly motivated to deliver excellent patient care.

There will be a requirement to participate in the Saturday service and Bank holiday service.

Applicants must be a registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council; you must be willing to obtain the accredited checking pharmacy technician qualification and the practice supervisor qualification. This is a full-time post and is based on the Sutton Site of the Royal Marsden NHS Trust.

Applicants are advised that because of the high level of responses we receive for some of our vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date. Therefore, you are urged to submit your application as soon as possible.

Main duties of the job

1. To develop, maintain and manage the safe, efficient, and cost-effective supply of medicines to patients attending the Oak Cancer Centre.
2. To deliver quality care to patients attending the oak cancer centre through efficient medicines optimisation including where required effective patient/carers education on medicines, assessment of patient's own medication, medicines reconciliation, individual patient dispensing, and discharge planning.
3. To support with clinical audits, data collection and implementation of developments to enhance the needs of the patient.
4. To support the Day Unit Pharmacists with the delivery of any service developments associated with medicine optimisation pharmacy service to meet local and national requirements.
5. To participate with the dispensing, final checking and issuing of medicines to deliver a safe service when required.
6. To support any operational tasks as required in line with those of the wider medicines management technician team.
7. To be the practice supervisor for trainee pharmacy staff when required.

About us

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Job description
Job responsibilities

1. To be responsible for completing the medicine reconciliation process and ordering of medicines as an accredited medicines optimisation pharmacy technician when necessary.
2. To support and empower patients and carers with self-administration of medicines where possible.
3. To support the management of the medication supply pathway including the efficient transfer of medicines between day units and wards.
4. Ensure patients receiving to take out (TTO) medication are appropriately counselled by undertaking specific accreditations in order to carry out counselling for supportive and anti-cancer (SACT) medicines.
5. To liaise with the clinical unit and pharmacy teams to resolve any technical queries or problems with patients, referring to pharmacist when required.

Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential

• Qualified Pharmacy Technician Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification
• Medicines Optimisation qualification (HEE LaSE) or equivalent
• Must be willing to undertake the above qualifications

Desirable

• Practice Supervisor Course or equivalent
• Must be willing to undertake the above qualifications

Experience
Desirable

• Significant work experience (post qualification) in hospital pharmacy
• Awareness of training competency requirements for technical staff (Level 2 & 3)
• Experience in training and supervision of trainees
• Experience of final checking complex prescriptions e.g., oncology, paediatrics
• Experience of team leader or suitable management
• Working knowledge/experience of writing SOPs
• Oncology pharmacy experience

Skills Abilities/knowledge
Essential

• Well-developed organisational, time management and planning skills ability to organise workload and work as part of a team
• Good communication and interpersonal skills (written and verbal)
• Quality-oriented strives for continuous improvement.
• Ability to be supportive and demonstrate empathy in appropriate situations.
• Excellent customer service skills
• Computer literate
• Good leadership qualities: able to take responsibility and to delegate effectively.

Employer details
Employer name
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Royal Marsden Sutton
Downs Road
Sutton
SM2 5PT
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