Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 242-4559-LR
- Employer
- North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 30 Medicines Supply Hub
- Town
- Preston
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacy Technician - Projects & Supplies
Band 6
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are committed to providing services which embrace diversity and which promote equality of opportunity. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet our minimum selection criteria at each stage of the selection process. We will not tolerate discrimination on any of the following: gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, colour, nationality, religion, age, disability, working pattern, caring responsibilities trade union activity or political beliefs-or any other grounds.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of staff from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. We encourage applications from all backgrounds to improve the diversity of our workforce and to better reflect the communities we serve to provide the right care, at the right time, in the right place; every time.
The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if a large number of applications are received.
Due to the volume of applications received for our advertisements, we will only contact those candidates shortlisted for interview via email; we aim to do this within 4 weeks of the closing date. If you do not receive the email, it will be that you have not been shortlisting on this occasion. When applying for this position, it is essential that you read the job description and person specification fully. Please use the supporting information space to demonstrate your ability to undertake this role, drawing on your skills, knowledge and experience.
We also offers a range of excellent benefits including a pension scheme, up to 33 days Annual leave (exclusive of bank holidays), training and development opportunities, access to NHS discounts, Car Lease Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme, NHS Mortgages and Childcare Vouchers.
Job overview
Registered Pharmacy Technician? Fancy trying something new? Want to be a leader?
Why not join our expanding Medicines Team at the North West Ambulance Service in this new role leading on procurement of medicines supplies and co-ordinating medicines related projects across our trust. This job is for someone who can be an effective and inspiring leader to an already established team.
Do you have experience in leading and managing projects to help drive forward changes to service provision and drive new innovative technologies into NWAS.
Do you like variety? You would also be involved in the training and education of staff within our team and to our operational ambulance teams including undergraduates embarking on their paramedic careers.
Do you like things to be right? You would be involved in devising and conducting audits to give us the assurance that we are doing it right and demonstrate compliance with regulations and processes.
Main duties of the job
Candidates should have experience and knowledge in:
• Procurement of medicines including where to order supplies from including navigating stock shortages. Understanding of procurement frameworks is desirable.
• Project management - developing project plans, engaging with stakeholders & leading projects to be delivered to a high standard.
• Analysing complex data and being able to summarise it into high level reports for multiple audiences.
• Understanding relevant medicines legislation and regulations and how to apply them and assess compliance against them.
You must possess exceptional organisational, written and verbal communication skills with an inspirational can-do leadership attitude.
You must be a good educator/ trainer to provide the foundation for driving excellent medicines management across NWAS. The role is a non-patient facing role but you will be working within a diverse multidisciplinary team.
Due to the geographical nature of NWAS there will be an expectation the post holder will be confident in driving long distances and working autonomously to fulfil parts of the role. You will work alongside other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and medicines assistants within the Medicines Team.
Working for our organisation
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport.
Our highly skilled staff provide life-saving care to patients in the community and take people to hospital or a place of care if needed.
We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for those patients who require non-emergency transport to and from hospital and who are unable to travel unaided because of their medical condition or clinical need.
Alongside the other emergency services, we also work to ensure the safety of the public and treatment of patients in the event of a major incident.
We also deliver the NHS 111 service in the North West. NHS 111 replaced NHS Direct in 2013. This service was introduced to make it easier for people to access local NHS healthcare services in England. It provides non-emergency medical help fast, and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a permanent role based at the NWAS Medicine Supply Hub site in Preston working 37.5 hours a week. The service operating hours are 7am to 5pm with occasional Saturday working required (approx. 4 per year). Normal working hours will be Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm.
Candidates successful in reaching the interview stage may be asked to attend assessment centre selection as part of the recruitment process. Assessment centre will be held on Monday 12th May 2025 with interviews held the same day and you must be available to attend on this date if selected.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Project management skills: Good organisational and planning skills to manage a range of activities.
- Excellent written communication skills.
- Ability to write materials (reports, training packages, SOPs, plans) for a variety of audiences.
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Ability to research and analyse evidence and complex data to develop clinical guidelines, procedures and care pathways.
- A self-starter with the ability to work independently using own initiative and to tight deadlines.
- Education and training skills particularly in the development of educational resources and training courses.
- Ability to plan, lead and co-ordinate a complex workload.
- Ability to review and consider options to resolve problems that arise.
- Able to act as a role model to others with a positive outlook.
- Excellent IM&T skills using Microsoft programs
- Attention to detail.
- Demonstrates initiative and can be innovative with flexible ways of working to create solutions.
- Audit and evaluation and quality improvement skills.
- Committed to undertaking relevant continuing professional development which can be evidenced.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner.
- Able to communicate across wide demographic boundaries in an appropriate manner with tact and diplomacy.
- Strong management, motivational and leadership skills.
- Able to establish and maintain strong working relationships with the Medicines Team and key stakeholders (internal and external).
- Personal resilience and ability to deal with conflict and perform effectively in a pressurised environment.
- Respects and applies patient confidentiality at all times.
- Able to operate all equipment safely and in accordance with Trust policy, procedures and protocols.
- Able to organise own workload and that of the team to achieve tight deadlines.
- Able to work without direct supervision.
- Demonstrable compassionate and inclusive leadership.
- Experience in the application of HR processes.
- Demonstrable experience of line management responsibilities
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures acquired through training NVQ 3 and BTEC or equivalent in pharmaceutical science
- Post registration/graduate diploma in pharmacy or management related area.
- Formal training on Good Distribution Practice or willing to undertake training
- Detailed knowledge of medicines legislation and how to apply it
- Excellent knowledge around the safe storage and security of handling medicines.
- Know about and understand current medicines management issues.
- Knowledge of clinical drug use.
- Can analyse, interpret and present a range of facts and information.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a pharmacy technician in a pharmacy or medicines team.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Able to demonstrate exceptional organisational and leadership skills.
- Experience and ability to organise own workload and that of the team to achieve often tight deadlines. Responding to changing requirements and reallocating tasks where necessary.
- Experience of writing policies and procedures.
- Participation in audits.
- Designing audits.
- Experience of investigating incidents.
- Delivery of educational / training programmes to groups of staff.
- Project management experience.
Values
Essential criteria
- Working together – demonstrate collaborative and inclusive working and challenge behaviour that is not inclusive or acceptable.
- Being at our best – professional and adaptable and takes pride in work.
- Making a difference – act with compassion, kindness and integrity towards everyone.
- Flexible and adaptable.
- Highly motivated to make a difference and contribute to improved service and patient care.
- Proactive and takes responsibility.
- Demonstrable passion for the pharmacy profession.
- Enthusiasm for the role.
- Able to motive other and engage them in the medicines optimisation agenda.
Other
Essential criteria
- Driving licence and use of own vehicle and willingness to travel around North West of England area
- Satisfactory enhanced DBS.
- Good attendance record
- Member of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Smithies
- Job title
- Medicines Performance Facilitator
- Email address
- [email protected]
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