Specialist Pharmacy Technician

Job overview

You will work with a team of skilled Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Support Workers supporting the delivery and development of medicines optimisation to achieve high quality, cost effective and evidence based prescribing, promoting the safe, effective and efficient  use of medicines across KCHFT specialist services and to develop and maintain an excellent and progressive pharmacy service in line with legislation, the NHS long term plan and to meet the needs of our patients.

You will be fully supported with your training and development and benefit from the wealth of training courses available to the Pharmacy team, including clinical, management, and leadership opportunities.

Main duties of the job

You will provide a comprehensive medicine management service to Specialist Services. This will include:

• Making judgments on how to manage workload
• Participate in the audit process with the specialist service sites, supporting the governance of medicines processes, policies and the learning from medicines incidents in order to maintain and continually improve standards of patient care.
• Support the process of PGD production and approval. Participate in the organisation of meetings, agendas, minutes and ensure documents are distributed in a timely manner. Provide professional knowledge and support to ensure legal requirements for PGDs within the Trust are met.
• Supporting services with the supply of medicines. Reviewing stock lists, looking for efficiencies, contributing to cost improvements and the efficient use of medicines including safe and secure storage
• Ensuring compliance with prescribing guidelines and with local formularies
• Acting as a witness to controlled drug destructions
• Ensuring medicines are being used in the most cost-effective way and compliance with legal frameworks, formularies and best practice.
• Support the Pharmacy Technician work for the Special Schools and ADHD service
• Deliver training packages and medicines information to a range of staff in a multi-agency arena across specialist services
• Contribute to writing SOPs and policies relating to area of practice

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

Job responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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