About this role
Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge?
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and registered Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly, hard working and well established Medicine Management pharmacy team at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.
As an MMT, you will be responsible for providing a safe, efficient and accurate ward based service for virtual ward and hospital in-patients including medicines reconciliation, patient counselling and ensuring safe and timely discharges.
Undertake further education and training to advance the role of Pharmacy Technicians within the department.
Support the work of the main dispensary in the provision of an extended hour's service.
Will be expected to expand and broaden their skills and abilities.
Please note that this role includes cross site working, therefore ability to commute between sites is essential.
Main duties of the job
A technician is required to support the Ward Based team in our very busy pharmacy department. This challenging position combines the duties of ward work both for in-patients and virtual ward patients within our Community services team.
You must be able to prioritise and manage your own workload to provide a Medicines Management Service to both in-patients on the wards and those cared for by our Virtual Wards within community services.
Co-ordinate with other sections and members of the multi-disciplinary teams.
Participate in completion of Safe and Secure Handling of Medication (SASHM) and Controlled Drug audits.
To support with the supervision and training of assistants and students.
All applicants must have proven experience and ability of delivering pharmaceutical services within a pharmacy environment. Total flexibility of working hours is a necessity. Applications from community pharmacy technicians with the relevant qualifications may be considered as full training and support will be given.
Qualifications required are NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services, BTEC (Pharmaceutical Science), Level 3 Diploma in The Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
The applicant will be expected to be, or be working towards being, an ACT to routinely final accuracy check individually dispensed items for inpatients, discharges and controlled drugs within both the dispensary and ward environments.
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for a full detail of role and main responsibilities
Person Specification
Registration Essential
GPHC registration
Desirable
Member of APTUK Evidence of CPD
Experience Essential
Experience of successfully delivering technical pharmacy services as a qualified and registered pharmacy technician
Desirable
Working within a hospital environment Working within a community pharmacy team ie; PCN/PST Successful completion of an external provider or in-house Medicines Reconciliation training package
Qualifications Essential
NVQ Level 3 or BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or Level 3 Diploma in The Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians.
Desirable
ACT Pharmacy Technician Clinical Diploma
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 The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Address The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Wolverhampton Road
Wolverhampton
WV10 0QP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)