Job overview

Are you keen to work to supply medicines and improve medicines governance and patient care in an ambulance trust?

We are looking for a pharmacy technician with a checking qualification who has an interest in expanding your knowledge and self-development, you are proficient in IT including Microsoft Word, Excel and Teams.

Previous experience of management of stock control and ordering is required, along with an accuracy checking qualification.

You have good communication skills and are able to work well under pressure and prioritise and manage your time effectively.

Please be aware that the role is predominantly on site working at our HQ in Newburn (base) but will be some elements of remote working, but not exclusively and travel to ambulance stations across the whole of the North East region from Berwick to Teesside and across Weardale.  A Trust vehicle will be provided for this part of the role.

We are a small friendly medicines team, for further information please contact:

Fay Ord email: [email protected] mobile: 07976703747

Main duties of the job

You will support safe, effective and efficient supply and use of medicines across North East Ambulance Service.

You will support the Medicines Management Team with the technical and operational aspects of medicines management and medicines governance across the trust.

You will work within all medicines polices and standard operating procedures across the trust and ensure that these are understood and followed.  You will support medicines audits and audit compliance which will provide assurance to the Medicines Optimisation Group

You will support quality improvement and provide technical knowledge to support transforming the way that the Trust deals with medicines to optimise their use operationally.  You will support medicine projects and work with Trust clinical and operational staff at all levels to review processes to provide value for money for purchasing, waste control and stock control.

You will support the review and management of any alerts, incidents, serious incidents, near misses pertaining to medicines as required.  You will ensure that that medicines and pharmacy services are provided with due regard to patient safety and systems are in place to improve patient safety and patient care

Working for our organisation

We employ 3,500 staff in 63 locations and serve a population of 2,600,000 in Northumberland, Tyne & Wear, County Durham, and Tees over 3230 square miles.

Many people think the job of the ambulance service is to collect patients and take them to hospital, but we do much more!

Paramedic skills have developed hugely in recent years, meaning we carry out more treatment at the scene and en-route to hospital.

We have a dedicated clinical assessment service that allows us to provide patients with the most appropriate care from the beginning of the patient journey.

We have a specialised branch of the Trust called HART which deal with explosions or terrorist attacks.

Ultimately patients are the heart of everything that we do to support our mission of "safe, effective and responsive care for all".

We value and respect the diversity employees bring to our workplace. We recruit a workforce that reflects the community we serve, and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. To ensure we deliver on our aims in relation to diversity and inclusion we assess ourselves against a range of frameworks. We are ENEI Gold employer, Disability Confident Leader, Dementia Friendly, and part of Mind Blue Light programme and the Race at Work Charter from the Princes Responsible Business Network and are achieving across all objectives in NHS Equality Delivery System.

From 01/04/25 If your role needs a DBS you'll be subject to salary deduction totaling £49.50, spread over first and second pay.