About this role
Job summary
The Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Part-time specialist Pharmacy Technician- ePMA to join our pharmacy team.
- Are you an established Pharmacy Technician who wants to deliver high quality pharmaceutical care using an electronic prescribing and record system in a hospital team?
- Are you interested in delivering quality improvement through digital technologies?
If so, come and join us at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
This exciting role will provide you with a range of experiences in ePMA system development, providing clinical decision support and medication safety features across various functionalities within the system.
You will also be part of the clinical services team, providing clinical care to a variety of medical, surgical and admissions wards.
Main duties of the job
A flavour of your day to day
Your week will consist of a mixture of clinical and digital activities. Within your digital role, you will work with the ePMA Meds Team and wider digital team to provide maintenance and improvements to the trusts electronic prescribing system.
Working clinically, you will deliver direct, patient-facing care ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines across the Trust.
Through the structured rotation plan you will be exposed to, and work within, a number of clinical areas, including:
Medical wards
Surgical wards
Admissions wards
Inpatient and outpatient dispensary
The department works on an extended hours, seven day pharmacy service on a rostered basis.
About us
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary
Support dispensary services by checking stock and prescriptions, ordering medicines, dispensing, labelling, accuracy checking and counselling patients on their pharmaceutical needs.
Support ward-based activities by undertaking stock control, medication supply, medicines reconciliation, expediting medicines for patient discharge and utilising close liaison with ward pharmacists, medical and nursing teams.
Communication with patients to inform and coach them about their healthcare requirements.
Support improvements in patient safety, staff support and health and wellbeing.
Person Specification
Education & Qualification
Essential
- BTEC Pharm Science
- oAccredited Final Checking qualification
- oNVQ Level 3 or equivalent
- oAccredited counselling award
- oA1 NVQ Assessor Award
- oManagerial Qualification or willing to work towards them
- oRegistered with the GPhC
Desirable
- oRecognised IT qualification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- oSignificant post qualification experience.
- oExperience leading a team
- oExtensive recent experience of working in hospital
- oExperience in managing technicians/assistants in a Pharmacy environment.
- oExperience in training of Pharmacy staff
- oExpected to have an all-round knowledge of the technical aspects of hospital Pharmacy and a broad outlook of pharmaceutical issues
Desirable
- oExperience of ePMA systems
- oExperience of working in community pharmacy
- oPrevious experience with working with Cerner Millennium build tools
- oExperience in database management
- oExperience in procedure development
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- oExcellent IT skills including Microsoft Office
- oCommunication skills (both verbal and written)
- oGood interpersonal skills
- oAbility to strategically develop the e-Care system as part of a team
- oAbility to influence staff within and outside the team and department
- oAbility to work to deadlines and to achieve agreed objectives
- oAbility to work in an organised and calm fashion in a busy environment
- oAbility to deal with members of the public and other health care workers in a professional manner
- oClose liaison with co-workers in the department is vital
- oAble to make decisions
Personal qualities
Essential
- oCommitment to the team and patient care
- oOpen approach to new initiatives
- oTeam working (management and professional)
- oFlexibility to work in different sections of the department
- oPositive attitude towards personal / self development
- oParticipate in the Saturday, Sunday and bank holiday rota
- oAttention to detail
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Address
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Hardwick Lane
Bury St Edmunds
IP33 2QZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.wsh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)