About this role
Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician looking to develop your clinical skills and make a real difference to patient care? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and patient-focused Clinical Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy Team at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. In this role, you will support the delivery of high-quality clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services across our inpatient wards, working closely with pharmacists, doctors, nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced forward thinking Pharmacy Technician who is passionate about improving patient outcomes, enhancing medication safety and contributing to the ongoing development of clinical pharmacy services.
Main Duties of the JobUndertake medicines reconciliation and accurate medication history taking. Assess and manage patients' own medicines to support safe and effective treatment. Support medicines supply processes, including ordering and discharge planning. Provide counselling and medicines-related advice to patients and carers. Contribute to medicines optimisation initiatives and quality improvement projects. Support audit, governance and assurance activities, including medicines security and controlled drug standards. Deliver medicines management training and support to ward staff.
The post is full-time (37.5 hours per week) and includes participation in weekend and bank holiday rotas.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will assist the Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician in the provision of clinical pharmacy technical services to wards and departments. They will assist in the provision of a medicines optimisation service including providing of medicines reconciliation, assessment of patients own medicines, ordering and supply of medicines and discharge support in terms of pre-screening discharge medicines in order support to the wider clinical pharmacy team. They will assist in the updating of procedures; partake in audits and systems for the monitoring, organisation and supply of medicines during the patients admission and discharge.
About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.
We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.
We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Pubudu Chandrasekera, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5110. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a UK Pharmacy Technician
- Accredited checking technician
Desirable
- Qualifications to be NVQ Assessor / Educational Supervisor / Practice Supervisor
- Has completed a regional Medicines Optimisation Programme or equivalent (for completion of Medication Histories, Patients Own Medicine Assessments, Ordering for Supply)
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Good interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written including IT skills such as word processing)
- Ability to counsel patients on their medicines including complex medication regimes.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of being in a Medicines Management role e.g. Assessment of Patients own medicines, drug history taking, medicines reconciliation.
- Experience of liaising and interacting with nursing and medical staff and other healthcare professionals.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a ward environment
- Audit / Improvement / project work
- Experience of using Careflow Medicines Management (CMM) / JAC / computer system
- Experience of using Cerner Millenium EPR/EPMA
- Experience of staff training and supervision
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Good organisational skills.
- Ability to work autonomously and within a team.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
King George Hospital
Barley lane
Ilford
IG3 8YB
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)