Pharmacy Technician

Job overview

This is a Bank position to cover Maternity Leave for 6 months.

• To contribute to an efficient and accurate pharmacy service to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines throughout at SHSC NHS Foundation Trust.
• There is a requirement to be confident and able to work with service users, carers, and healthcare professionals internally and other organisations to ensure the service users are safe with their medicines.
• Under the direction of the Chief Pharmacist, Deputy Chief Pharmacist and the Senior Pharmacy Technicians, the post holder will perform whatever duties are reasonable and necessary to achieve the job purpose and overall safe provision of pharmacy services throughout the Trust.

Main duties of the job

To work closely with the senior pharmacy technician, lead pharmacist and pharmacy team in providing pharmacy services to SHSC providing the following services:

• Participate in the technical support necessary for the safe and effective dispensing of prescriptions including inpatient, outpatient and discharge medications and the distribution of medicines to the designated units of SHSC under the supervision of a senior technician and pharmacist.
• Undertake the SHSC system of ward top up safely and effectively to designated units.
• Provide safe and effective supply of pharmaceuticals to units within SHSC and other designated units outside the Trust.
• If eligible, and subject to appropriate training, to undertake accuracy checking of prescriptions.
• Participate in early morning, late night, weekend, and bank holiday rota.
• Give advice to staff and service users, providing information on local guidelines and policies ensuring they remain up to date.
• To order any medicines required for service users and ward stocks.
• To maintain continued professional development (CPD) as required by the GPhC or other registered body.

See Job Description for full list.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Dispensing
• ACT
• Ward Top-ups
• Support the clozapine Lead with the running of Clozapine.
• To maintain CPD
• Involvement with department Quality Improvement.
• Willing to travel to all sites at SHSC
• Dispensing and checking of Clinical Trials.
• Subject to the provision of appropriate training, participate in the provision of phlebotomy services to SHSC, including training in using and operating the POCHI machine.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.