Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate Services
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full Time 37.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 380-SS0500-A
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Swale Community Mental Health Team
- Town
- Sittingbourne
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician
Band 5
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacy technician looking to make a real difference in patient care?
We are seeking a passionate individual to join our established team and provide clinical pharmacy services across Kent and Medway. This innovative role offers the opportunity to develop patient-tailored care in both inpatient and community settings, with a specific focus on supporting patients with severe mental illness (SMI) as part of our exciting community mental health transformation program.
Why you should join us:
- Be at the forefront of delivering patient-centered care.
- Work in a supportive environment that prioritizes medication safety.
- Gain valuable experience in both community and inpatient settings.
- Enjoy a healthy work-life balance.
- Pursue professional development with accredited qualifications and leadership courses.
Who we are looking for:
- A motivated and committed pharmacy technician with a passion for patient care.
- A strong advocate for medication safety.
- Someone with an interest in working with patients with SMI.
If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, key aspects of this clinical post will include providing a comprehensive medicine management service to the inpatient and community services. This will include focusing on medicines reconciliation on admission, discharge facilitation, patient counselling, medicines supply and delivering pharmacy services in clozapine and depot clinics in the locality. Extended roles include contributing to the audit and teaching agendas and supporting the coordination and supply of clozapine to community patients, including near patient testing at clozapine monitoring clinics.
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.
The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Benefits
- Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year (when working full time) + Bank holidays
- Access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme.
- Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS, providing members with thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3 or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC
- Medications management knowledge including appropriate policies and legislation acquired through formal education and specialist training
Desirable criteria
- Accredited Medicine management qualification
- Accredited accuracy checking qualification
- Experience in using the Point of Care Haematology (PocHi) machine
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 12 months post-qualification experience
- Working within a clinical/ward environment
- Working in various disciplines and across organisational boundaries, linking primary and secondary care
Desirable criteria
- Experience and/or an interest in mental health
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to work as part of a team
- Good at practical problem solving
- Good presentation skills
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding of the issues affecting mental health prescribing
- Project management skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Davey
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07762000950
- Additional information
Basirat Osinaike, Lead Clinical Pharmacist, 07503330539
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust
Eastern & Coastal Area Offices
Littlebourne Road
Canterbury
CT1 1AZ
- Telephone
- 01227 230855 | ext. 730855
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