Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Technician - Dispensary
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 176-F-DC-2902242
- Employer
- North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Peterborough City Hospital
- Town
- Peterborough
- Salary
- £21,892 - £24,157 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2021 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician - Dispensary
Band 4
There has never been a better time to join our Trust than now! We run three busy hospital sites at Peterborough, Huntingdon and Stamford and provide outpatient services in two community hospitals in Ely and Doddington. Our 6,000 staff serve a growing population of 750,000 across North Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced, forward thinking Pharmacy Technician who is not afraid of change, who can “think outside the box” and who have the drive and ambition to “make a difference to patient care”, to join our Pharmacy Dispensaries Team based at Peterborough City Hospital, North West Anglia Hospitals Foundation Trust
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for providing an accurate and efficient service in the pharmacy dispensaries supporting the dispensing of inpatients and outpatient prescriptions. You will be highly motivated and responsible individuals with a passion for customer service and team work.
In return we can offer support to develop your career, e.g. Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification, within a friendly and supportive team of professionals.
You will need to be a Pharmacy Technician registered with the GPhC or completing your NVQ level 3 within the next 3 months.
Working for our organisation
There has never been a better time to join our Trust than now! We run three busy hospital sites at Peterborough, Huntingdon and Stamford and provide outpatient services in two community hospitals in Ely and Doddington. Our 6,000 staff serve a growing population of 750,000 across North Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.
With just over 6,000 staff and a 450-strong team of volunteers helping patients and visitors we are able to offer an exciting opportunities to new applicants.
As for living in the area, there is a wealth of choice with city living, small towns and villages all within reasonable commute to the hospitals. There are excellent schools and a wide variety of social and leisure activities to choose from.
So if you are looking to develop your career and want to do so in an environment which is challenging and growing we would encourage you to look further into a future with NWAngliaFT.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Participate in the supply of medicines in the form of in and out-patient dispensing, including accurate prescription receipt, labelling and assembly, and ensuring prompt completion and distribution, in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
Ensure medicines management and dispensing are undertaken in line with Departmental and Trust policies and current medicines legislation.
Participate in agreed ward supply services as appropriate to ensure adequate stock levels are provided on wards.
Participate in dispensing and supply associated with external contracts if appropriate, and to be aware of dispensing practices for each area.
Please see Job Description for further information
Person specification
Edcuation and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services with recognised underpinning knowledge course, or equivalent, recognised by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain for registration as a Pharmacy Technician or completing within 3 months
- • Accredited checking technician or willing to undertake
- • Commitment to continuing personal development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of dispensing
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in a hospital pharmacy
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current medicines legislation
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Ascribe pharmacy system
- Computer literate (Microsoft Office-Word, Excel, etc.)
Key Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Ability to prioritise own workload effectively
- Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing
- Ability to remain calm and work effectively under pressure
- Ability to deal with staff, patients and their relatives in a sympathetic manner and within competency
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Melanie Swain
- Job title
- Specialist Technician - Dispensaries
- Email address
- melanie.swain1@nhs.net
- Telephone number
- 01733 676765
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Resourcing Department
Hinchingbrooke Hospital
Hinchingbrooke Park
Huntingdon
Cambs
PE29 6NT
- Telephone
- 01480 416741
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