Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Technical Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 289-CSS-1331-C
- Employer
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Middlesex Hospital
- Town
- Isleworth
- Salary
- £32,720 - £39,769 per annum inc.HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacy Technician -Cancer and Technical Services
NHS AfC: Band 5
About our Trust
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be one of the top performing and safest trusts in England. We have two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, plus our award-winning clinics across North West London and beyond.
Our nearly 7,000 members of staff are proud to care for a diverse population of 1.5 million from the beginning to the end of life. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, including our award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for—our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in the domains of safe, effective, caring and responsive, and 'Outstanding' in the domains of well-led and use of resources.
Our facilities are among the best in the country. We invest around £10m a year in our estate and have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster. Works commence in spring 2024 on an ambitious £80m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at our West Middlesex site.
Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for the position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.
Job overview
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a suitably experienced hospital technician to apply for this post. The post-holder will help manage the technical services unit and deputise for the Principal Technician in their absence.
We require an experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated Pharmacy Technician with excellent communication skills to join our motivated forward thinking Technical Services department, which actively encourages training. You will work in an exceptionally friendly department delivering a customer focused service.
This is an ideal opportunity for a technician who is keen to build on their aseptic experience, as well as their management skills to help develop a patient focused Technical Service to meet the changing needs of the organisation and to help support the planned expansion of Cancer and Chemotherapy services within the Trust.
If you are interested in a full time post in Pharmacy Technical Services and being an integrated part of the multidisciplinary team, then this is the job for you.
We are ideally looking for someone with experience of working within a hospital pharmacy production unit.
- The post holder will need to be NVQ Level 3 qualified or equivalent.
- As a valued member of the pharmacy team, full support will be given to your continuing professional development.
Please contact Marion Taylor Principal Technician for further details on 02083215883 or Meena Hunjan on 02083216935
Main duties of the job
- Works closely with the Principal Technician in helping manage and develop all operational aspects of technical services.
- Helps to ensure that services are provided in a safe, efficient and effective manner according to local, national and Regional QA requirements and the principles of good manufacturing practice.
- Contributes to monitoring and management of performance and quality for technical services unit and services provided to cancer speciality.
Working for our organisation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment. Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Roles and responsibilities
Technical Services
- Assists with managing the workload and co-ordinating the workflow for sterile (cytotoxic reconstitution and CIVAS) and prepacks/over-labels in the Technical Services Unit to help maintain a safe, responsive and patient focussed service.
- Liaising with Chemotherapy Day Unit staff, of all grades, to support the work flow.
- Maintains effective communication links with the Lead, Principal Pharmacists, Lead, Principal Technicians and Quality Assurance Manager to ensure practices reflect adherence to GMP and section 10
requirements, Health and Safety legislation, COSHH and Trust Medicines Policy. - Helps to ensure that all legal and procedural requirements are met and that all records are maintained.
- Assists with writing and maintenance of all standard operating procedures for work processes in technical services in collaboration with QA and Principal Pharmacist or Technician
- Participates in technical services dispensing and accredited checking schemes, according to standard operating procedures.
- To take part in Medicines Management to provide information to patients and take drug histories as required on Chemotherapy Day Unit.
- Prepares and/or dispenses injections and infusions for (e.g. chemotherapy, Parenteral Nutrition, CIVA’S, clinical trial materials) under aseptic conditions and pre-packs to all required standards.
- Helps to maintain good stock control by ensuring stock checks are completed on a daily basis and investigates and corrects discrepancies according to local procedure.
- Assists with the generation, maintenance and development of monthly performance indicators and data for technical services unit including error monitoring, CQUINS, monthly workload
statistics and capacity planning and provides interpretation and remedial actions to correct variation in performance. Report these to relevant senior staff where necessary. - Assists with accurate booking out of medicines on the pharmacy computer system.
- Helps to co-ordinate drug and non-drug orders and liaises with purchasing and stores staff with regard to stock problems.
- Assist with development and creation of new worksheets on the EPISYS system.
- Participates in Quality Assurance initiatives associated with the technical services unit including assisting with environmental monitoring, equipment and cleaning.
- Participates in technical and cancer services developments to manage demand and improve service provision including gathering information and project work
- Assist with ordering and maintenance of stock of all medicines and consumables required by technical services unit and ensures that these are used efficiently within available resources.
Person specification
NVQ LEVEL 3 OR EQUIV ANDGPHC REGISTERED
Essential criteria
- Training in hospital enviroment
- Recent relavant band 4 experience
- Good comunication ( written and oral)
- Knowledge of EU GMP and principles of aseptic and cytotoxic dispensing with demonstrable accuracy
- Prioritisation and planning
- Time management
- Training and supervisory skills
- Experience of supervising staff
- Team player
- Ability to work in an isolator, and perform light/moderate physical duites including lifting and cleaning
- Attention to detail
- Able to use intiative
- Able to work independantly
Desirable criteria
- Completion of HEE or LPET courses
- Managing people
- Effectively provide information to patients
- Procedure writing
- Use of Episys software
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Marion Taylor
- Job title
- Lead Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02083215883
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