Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge?

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and registered Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly, hard working and well established Medicine Management pharmacy team at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

As an MMT, you will be responsible for providing a safe, efficient and accurate ward based service for virtual ward and hospital in-patients including medicines reconciliation, patient counselling and ensuring safe  and timely discharges.

Undertake further education and training to advance the role of Pharmacy Technicians within the department.

Support the work of the main dispensary in the provision of an extended hour’s service.

Will be expected to expand and broaden their skills and abilities.

Please note that this role includes cross site working, therefore ability to commute between sites is essential.

Main duties of the job

A technician is required to support the Ward Based team in our very busy pharmacy department. This challenging position combines the duties of  ward work both for in-patients and virtual ward patients within our Community services team. 

You must be able to prioritise and manage your own workload to provide a Medicines Management Service to both in-patients on the wards and those cared for by our Virtual Wards within community services.

Co-ordinate with other sections and members of the multi-disciplinary teams.

Participate in completion of Safe and Secure Handling of Medication (SASHM) and Controlled Drug audits.

To support with the supervision and training of assistants and students. 

All applicants must have proven experience and ability of delivering pharmaceutical services within a pharmacy environment. Total flexibility of working hours is a necessity. Applications from community pharmacy technicians with the relevant qualifications may be considered as full training and support will be given. 

Qualifications required are NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services, BTEC (Pharmaceutical Science), Level 3 Diploma in The Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. 

The applicant will be expected to be, or be working towards being, an ACT to routinely final accuracy check individually dispensed items for inpatients, discharges and controlled drugs within both the dispensary and ward environments.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.