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Job summary

Main area
Prinicpal Technical- Technical Services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
289-CSS-1269-E
Employer
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
West Middlesex Hospital
Town
Isleworth
Salary
£40,701 - £48,054 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/05/2024 23:59

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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

Principal Pharmacy Technician -Technical Services

NHS AfC: Band 6

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

  • Manages and develops all operational aspects and relevant staff in technical services unit in conjunction with Lead Pharmacist and under the supervision of the Lead Technician, Technical and Cancer Services.
  • Ensures that the services are provided in a safe, efficient and effective manner according to local and national guidelines and the principles of good manufacturing practice.
  • Contributes to monitoring and management of performance and quality for the technical service unit and services provided to the cancer speciality.

 

Main duties of the job

  • Supports the Lead Pharmacy Technician, with the operational management and supervision of all staff working in the technical services unit (pharmacists, technicians, assistants, pre-registration pharmacists and student technicians) to help maintain a safe and responsive service.
  • Liaising with Chemotherapy day unit staff of all grades to support the work flow.
  • Manages workload and co-ordinates workflow for sterile (cytotoxic reconstitution and PN) and non-sterile (prepacks) in the technical services unit to maintain a safe and responsive service.
  • Supports the Lead Technician in managing and generating reports on technical services unit performance (quality, safety and efficiency) according to local standards including dispensing errors and other incidents.
  • Maintains effective communication links with the Lead Pharmacist and Lead Technician to ensure practices reflect adherence to GMP and national requirements, Health and Safety legislation, COSHH and Trust Medicines Policy.
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Working for our organisation

About the Trust 

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

  • Ensures that all legal and procedural requirements are met and that all records are maintained.
  • Supports the review and maintenance of all standard operating procedures for work processes in technical services in collaboration with QA and the Lead Pharmacist or Technician and advises staff to support their professional functions.
  • Participates in technical services dispensing and accredited checking schemes according to standard operating procedures.
  • Participates in Quality Assurance initiatives associated with the technical services unit including assisting with environmental monitoring, change and deviations, root cause analysis, equipment maintenance and cleaning.
  • Participates in technical and cancer services developments to manage demand and improve service provision including gathering information and project work
  • Responsible for 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.
  • Ensures that all equipment (e.g. isolators and air handling unit) is operating to the required standard.
  • Liaises with Quality Assurance as necessary to ensure services are provided to a high standard.
  • Ensures that capacity plan is completed and any capacity excursions are reported to pharmacy senior management team.
  • Supports data submission as necessary to the national IQAAPs system, and the National Error Reporting Scheme.
  • Liaises with Estates and outside contractors as necessary.
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Person specification

Education and experience

Essential criteria
  • Aseptic preparation and dispensing of medicines course Leeds or equivalent
  • Experience of training staff
  • Btec or equiavalent in pharmaceutical sciences
  • GPHC registered
  • Staff management and skills(interviewing,apprasial etc)
  • Evaluated service audit
  • Significant experience in aseptic setting
  • QMS experience
  • Good communication
  • Knowledege of GMP and principles of aseptic dispensing
  • Word processing, email and data entry
  • Organisational and prioritisation of workload
  • Interpret and dispense prescriptions accurately
  • Able to use initiative
  • Able to work independently
Desirable criteria
  • Pharmacy computer systems specifically wellsky
  • Audit design
  • Physical maintenance of a clean room suite
  • Experience of e-prescribing systems for chemotherapy
  • Experience in a hospital setting
  • Problem solving

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDWe are a Living Wage EmployerCapital Nurse, LondonHealthy Workplace - Commitment 2018Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoTimewise helps businesses to attract and develop the best talent through flexible working.No smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthArmed Forces Covenant Bronze AwardArmed Forces Covenant

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Marion Taylor
Job title
Principal Technician
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02083215883
Additional information

Marion Taylor

Technical Services Unit

West Middlesex Hospital

Twickenham Road

Isleworth

Middx

Tw7 6af

 

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