We have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our Pharmacy Team.
You will have an enthusiastic approach to multidisciplinary team working and a passion for front line patient‑centred care. With compassion and commitment, you will optimise the use of medicines in response to the individual needs of the patients and the unit.
Activities will include reconciling medicines, assessment of patients own drugs, maintaining appropriate levels of stock control, ensuring cost effective use of medicines, timely and accurate labelling and dispensing medicines, providing advice in relation to safe and secure handling of medicines to patients and colleagues, counselling and educating patients/carers on their medicines, medicines administration and completing medicine related audits.
The successful candidate will be registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC. You should be friendly with excellent time management and prioritisation skills. You should be able to problem‑solve and take responsibility for organising your daily workload in liaison with the Unit Manager.
We welcome newly qualified, less experienced pharmacy technicians or those awaiting registration to apply for the post. If we were to appoint a registered technician who did not meet the criteria for band 5 the candidate would be appointed as a band 4 with the opportunity to progress to a band 5.
Typical working week based on the unit Monday‑Friday, 0800‑1600 excluding bank holidays and weekend.
Main duties of the job
- To ensure safe, appropriate, efficient and cost‑effective use of medicines
- To facilitate an integrated provision of pharmaceutical care including ordering, transport, preparation, administration, storage and disposal of medicines
- To ensure effective medicine stock control and storage on the unit by carrying out regular audits and providing advice to the unit and team on safe, secure and appropriate storage of medicines in line with the Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines Procedures
- To ensure effective management of the pharmacy ordering system and stock control.
- To label, dispense and check non‑stock medicines, medicines used for Self‑administration and medicines for leave or discharge in line with the Trust process and procedures.
- To provide advice, education and counselling to patients/carers with regards to their medicines.
- Providing information and advice to patient/carers and colleagues in regard to safe and secure handling of medication
- To assist with discharge planning and ensure post discharge plans are in place.
- Accurately completing medicines reconciliation for patients following transfer of care.
- To ensure pharmaceutical waste is handled safely and appropriately. Assisting with or arranging destruction, storage and collection
- Administer medication
- After training and gaining competency, undertake tasks such as physical health monitoring and phlebotomy.
- Trust wide cover as per service demands.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures acquired through training and experience to degree level or equivalent.
- NVQ3/BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent
- Specialist training and experience
Experience
- Experience working as a pharmacy technician and supervising technical area
- Experience working as a Pharmacy Technician within a hospital or in primary care environment.
Skills and Competencies
- Good communicator, both verbally and in writing
- Self‑motivated and able to work independently
- Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise own workload
- Knowledge and experience of principles relating to good medicines management in a mental health setting
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.
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