Lead Technician - CD Room

Job overview

An exciting opportunity for a Lead Pharmacy Technician in the Controlled Drugs Room has become available on a 9-month secondment as the current post holder is going on Maternity Leave. This is an exciting role for an experienced Pharmacy Technician to develop their skills and learn more about this area of Pharmacy.

Joining a group of Lead Technicians, this role supports the Chief Technicians in ensuring we deliver a safe and high-quality Pharmacy service. Working within the Lead Technician group this role will manage the day-to-day coordination of the controlled drug room to ensure a timely and accurate top up service.

This role is a great opportunity to develop leadership and organisational skills within a busy acute hospital Pharmacy setting.

As well as this other duties will include:

• Provide training and assessment for Pharmacy Dispensary staff, in line with the Trust's CD policies to ensure provision of a high-quality service.
• Manage stock holding and accuracy of stock balances, investigating any discrepancies immediately in line with the Trust CD policies
• Ordering and receiving of Controlled drugs from suppliers
• Completion of legal paperwork and filing this away

This role is a great opportunity to develop leadership and organisational skills within a busy acute hospital Pharmacy setting.

Main duties of the job

• Support staff training, in line with the Trust's CD procedures and staff validations, working with the Pharmacy Education and Training team.
• Dispense and check Controlled drug to wards, ensuring they're on ward stock lists, and enquiring with the clinical ward teams if not.
• Oversee day-to-day stock holding and ordering in the QMC controlled drugs room.
• Organise and lead regular rolling and year-end stock takes, ensuring procedures are followed to maintain accurate stock balances and discrepancies are investigated and reconciled in liaison with a Chief Technician.
• Destruction of Patient own medicine (POM)
• Assist in the monitoring of service Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure quality, effectiveness and efficiency.
• Review service standards and provisions and implement change where appropriate through improvement work.
• Support managing Dispensary staffing absence supported by the Trust Wellbeing and Attendance Management policy.
• Involved in the recruitment and selection of Pharmacy Dispensary service staff.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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