Pharmacy Technician – Emergency Department

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our forward-thinking department. The role involves working  within our emergency department supporting the emergency department pharmacist. We strive for the highest standards of medicines management duties, with Pharmacy Technicians being key to the success of our award-winning  service. You will oversee daily workload  to ensure our patients are receiving a high level of care, any critical medications are prescribed, and supplies are available to avoid any possible missed doses, working towards a safe patient stay in our Emergency Department through to the transfer to one of the main wards.

The right candidate will be  a team player with clinical experience, well-developed communication skills and a desire to use your knowledge, skills and experience to improve patient care and influence healthcare professionals in the best use of medicines. You will be able to demonstrate consistent leadership and the ability to train. We are looking for leaders of the future, who can meet the changing needs and dynamics of our busy and professional department. In return, we offer a training programme developed to offer Pharmacy Technicians the opportunity to enhance their skills widen their knowledge base.

Ability to participate in late night, Bank holiday and weekend rotas is essential.

Main duties of the job

Our Pharmacy Technicians ensure patients have sufficient supplies of medicines and flagging critical medicines and arranging supplies. They make interventions, avoiding missed and delayed doses of medicines, reconciling inpatient charts against GP records, and supporting the discharge process.

Pharmacy Technicians are responsible for ward-based medicines management duties including audit, controlled drug management and compliance with Trust policies, and experience of this within a clinical setting is desirable for this post.

Our pharmacy Technicians at this grade provide oversight and leadership of the dispensary during designated sessions and oversee the workload for groups of wards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Support the Assistant Directors of Pharmacy in providing a high quality, cost effective and efficient patient centred pharmacy service to the Trust
• Maintain and develop the highest standards of patient-focused care in the provision of technical services
• Support the governance and medicines risk management agenda locally
• Support the development of the technician and assistant teams to complement and facilitate multidisciplinary working
• Act as a role model in the field of clinical technician pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high level of pharmaceutical service in line with corporate objectives and government initiatives
• Support the agreed policies and procedures for safe medicines use and support mechanisms to promote high quality medicine use, effective risk management, clinical governance and adherence to Trust policies and guidelines concerning medicines use
• Contribute to the development of the service
• Support the professional development of technicians and assistants

See attached job description.