Rotational Pharmacy Technician (Band 4)

Job overview

We have an exciting and unique opportunity for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hard working and adaptable Pharmacy Technician to work at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. This is a rotational role, and the successful applicant will have the opportunity to work across the full range of pharmacy departments, including the dispensary, inpatient wards, aseptics, medicines information and others.   The successful candidate will need to be registered with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician, and will have excellent interpersonal skills, be good at managing their time, be flexible in their approach to work and be an excellent team player.    Applicants will need to have excellent dispensing and communication skills to join our friendly, supportive and welcoming pharmacy team.  The post holder will also be expected to take part in the weekend and bank holiday rotas to ensure an effective service provision.   We will support the successful candidate with their introduction into this role, and with their future professional development.

Main duties of the job

• Full dispensary activities, including dispensing and accuracy checking medicines supply for inpatients,  prescriptions for outpatients and medicines on discharge.
• Ward medicines management activities including assessment of patients own drugs, completion of drug history and medicines reconciliation activities, ensuring full supply of medicines for an inpatient stay and on discharge,.
• Aseptic preparation of a wide range of products following validated standard operating procedures.
• Rotation through pharmacy procurement, homecare, medicines information as required
• Supervision and training of a range of junior staff including students, senior assistant technical officers and assistant technical officers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached  the full job description and person specification for further details relating to this vacancy.

This position is not currently eligible for a certificate of sponsorship in line with Home Office guidance as it does not appear on the skilled worker visa occupation list.

If you currently hold a different type of visa allowing you to work in the UK we would welcome an application from you. If your visa expires or there is a change in status during your employment, the Trust will be required to review your employment This