Senior Pharmacy Technician Medicines Management

Job overview

SENIOR PHARMACY TECHNICIAN – Medicines Management (Band 5)

Full-Time (37.5 hours per week) Permanent (Maternity Cover)

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Pharmacy Technician registered with the GPhC to join our award-winning Pharmacy team. This role involves ward-based activities providing face to face patient contact, completing Medicines reconciliation, and Discharge support to specialist ward areas. Alongside these duties you will also be expected to support our dispensary and decentralised Hubs providing final checking duties and dispensing medicines.

Main duties of the job

The candidate should hold a nationally recognised Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician qualification and a Medicines Reconciliation qualification. The candidate must have current/recent experience in a ward-based role.

Successful candidates will have experience in prioritising patients within ward areas; reducing missed doses by ensuring critical medications and complex patients are prioritised, whilst ensuring patients have Medicines Reconciliation completed within the 48 hours target times and providing discharge facilitation to patients highlighted for discharge. Experience managing clinical queries and having an ability to delegate to the appropriate member of the multi-disciplinary team is essential to supporting the ward clinical team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In order to manage the conflicting priorities, you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and you must be able to manage your own workload whilst motivating and managing others. You will support the training and development and overall performance of the clinical team as well as individual specialist teams. Computer literacy, and experience working both as part of a team and independently are essential.

You will be expected to work weekends, Bank Holidays & late duties on a rotational basis.

Our DCHFT Job Description and Person Specification (attached) tells you all about this role, what to expect and what is needed to succeed. When completing your application please make sure to tell us how your experience and skills fit the person specification.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you are unable to view or download the attachment.

For all our roles, we are looking for staff who hold our Trust Values of Integrity, Respect Teamwork and Excellence, and who are passionate about providing the best patient care. To read more about our Trust and our Values search Dorset County Hospital online.