About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and proactive pharmacy technician to join the Cancer Pharmacy Team as a Band 5 Cancer Pharmacy Technician, at the Churchill Hospital and able to cover across sites.
The successful candidate will be highly motivated with excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills interested in developing leadership skills to support the Senior Pharmacy Technician. The Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team covering the Churchill and Horton Hospitals and includes pharmacy assistants, technicians, pharmacist and admin.
The candidate ideally will have either a hospital pharmacy background, or with community pharmacy experience, wishing to make a change into the hospital environment, for which appropriate training will be provided. You must have successfully achieved the relevant units of pharmacy services skills, ideally NVQ level 3 (QCF) or an equivalent GPhC accredited training programme.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of the Medicine Management, Ward Based team primarily working to deliver exceptional pharmacy services directly to patients on wards and day treatment areas. You will provide medicine reconciliation, patient counselling and representing the Cancer Pharmacy Technical Team.
Some of the key roles include:
Delivery of Medicine Management service to adult cancer in-patients, out-patients, and day case patients Pharmacy service to Day Treatment Units in Headington and Banbury. Patient counselling Being part of the dispensing process for labelling, dispensing and checking - if qualified Responding to enquiries and requests from staff, patients and carers and ensure appropriate and accurate information is readily available and to escalation questions to other members of the pharmacy team where appropriate. Opportunity to develop CPD Opportunity for attendance to the Annual British Oncology Pharmacy Association Conference on a rotational basis
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
Job description Job responsibilities
Ward and Day Treatment Unit based role
1. To be part of the Pharmacy team providing a near-patient medicines management service to clinical areas.
2. To become an accredited Medicines Management Technician, or complete reaccreditation in order to transfer skills where appropriate.
3. To become accredited to assess PODs according to the Trusts criteria.
4. To implement and maintain the POD scheme according to Trust policies.
5. To train nursing, medical and pharmacy staff regarding the POD scheme.
6. To become accredited to initiate the supply of non-stock items for one-stop/full pack dispensing.
7. To become accredited to complete medicines reconciliation using a variety of available sources.
8. To aid discharge planning in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist and ward staff.
9. To work with the clinical pharmacist and ward staff to support medicines management at ward level.
10. To become accredited to undertake patient counselling on selected patients e.g. warfarin initiation, inhaler counselling
Person Specification
Essential Qualities Essential
Qualified Pharmacy Technician with an NVQ 3 or other equivalent qualification and registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Comprehensive dispensary experience in either Hospital or Community Previous experience of training/supervision of other staff Enthusiastic and responsible attitude Good interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills with staff inside and outside of the department Team player who is considerate to the needs and feelings of others in the Team and works to the Trust values Able to acknowledge, appreciate and conform to change that occurs Considerate to the needs and feelings of others in the Team Demonstrate an ongoing commitment to CPD and PDP Good time management, organisation and prioritisation skills and accurate in your work and with attention to detail Responsive to direction and constructive feedback Basic all-round knowledge of Pharmacy Department Tidy and smart appearance Adhering to the Trust dress code Accredited for Medicines Optimisation work or willing to undertake training Accredited Checking Technician or willing to undertake training Completion of recognised Leadership Training programme
Desirable
Uses own initiative and can work alone Experience of using an automated dispensing system A role model that demonstrates a professional attitude at all times Experience of pharmacy stores and distribution Patient counselling skills Conscientious approach to own work and able to produce evidence of CPD. Understands the changing roles of the Pharmacy Technician and what registration involves To be able to take part in the induction of new staff to the department as necessary. Play a key role in the Health and Safety of yourself and that of your working colleagues in the Department Fire Marshall trained First aid trained Certificate of Competence in Vocational Assessment (CAVA)
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.
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UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address Churchill Hospital
Oxford
OX3 7LE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)