Senior Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Management Acute Medicine

Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: St Thomas'

Town: London

Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 p.a. inc HCA

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 05/05/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 5

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory, and cardiovascular services.

Job overview

To provide a comprehensive pharmaceutical Medicines Management service for the Acute Medicine directorate. This includes accurate ward-based pharmacy support, timely medication reconciliation, and facilitating safe and efficient supplies for patient discharge. The role supports the dispensary in dispensing, accuracy checking, and patient counselling. Additionally, it involves contributing to service development, audit, and education.

We are expanding our technical pharmacy team to support the growing demands of Acute Medicine and enhance development opportunities for our staff.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Pharmacy Technician in Medicines Management, you will:

• Provide ward-based medicines management services, including medication history-taking, discharge planning, and patient counselling.
• Support the safe and effective supply of medicines through dispensing and accuracy checking.
• Participate in audits, quality improvement initiatives, and training of rotational staff and trainees.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to optimise patient care in Acute Medicine.

Person specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

• Registered with GPhC or eligible to register
• Medicines management experience in award-based setting
• BTEC Pharmaceutical Science / GPhC-accredited Level 3 Pharmacy Technician Qualification or equivalent
• Practice supervisor / Educational supervisor or equivalent

Experience

• Experience of hospital pharmacy dispensary operations
• Experience of supervising staff and workload on a day-to-day basis
• Ability to work to set procedures under pressure
• Experience of counselling patients on use of medications
• Ability to develop and deliver competency-based training assessments
• Ability to write or contribute to SOPs
• Experience of appraising staff and setting performance objectives
• Familiarity with hospital pharmacy systems, including EPIC
• Experience of participation in project and audit work

Skills

• Demonstrates ability to dispense accurately to set standards
• Mandatory professional CPD as defined by the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Recruitment and selection experience

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects, and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures, and practices to ensure that all employees, patients, and carers are treated equitably according to their needs.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients.

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