Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (FTC)
- Hours
- Part time - 25.5 hours per week (Weekends and bank holiday on rotational basis)
- Job ref
- 156-6418402
- Employer
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Cornwall hospital, Treliske site
- Town
- Truro
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines optimisation technician critical care and theatres
Band 5
Job overview
The post holder is expected to have the relevant accreditations to meet the criteria for a Pharmacy Technician, band 5. You will be working as part of the Critical Care and Theatres pharmacy team to optimise safe and effective use of medicine. This includes working on critical care unit, taking and recording patient drug histories and supporting with teaching and audit work in this speciality. The post holder will assess patients own medications and counsel patients on the use of their medicines. This role includes supervision of junior members of staff and trainees on a planned basis.
Main duties of the job
To undertake or train to undertake a ward based medicines optimisation service within Critical Care.
To work within SOP procedures for this activity to take drug histories and document details of patients’ drugs on admission including documentation of allergies and other adverse reactions
To assess patients’ own drugs for quality and as part of the pharmacy team organise where necessary compliance aids for individual patients.
Where required; manage the effective top up and stock checks of controlled drugs
To participate in departmental audits and pilot schemes as required.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with
visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million.
We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.
The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles.
Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side.
To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:
- Identity Checks
- Professional registration and qualification checks
- Employment history and reference checks
- Work health assessments
- Criminal record check standards
- Right to work checks
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Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.
We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Pharmacy Technician’s GHPC.
- Pharmacy Technician Certificate through City & Guilds, Apothecaries Hall, BTEC or NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science
- Accredited Checking or Medicines Optimisation Accreditation
- The second accreditation underway; either Accredited Checking Technician status or Medicines Optimisation
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in a hospital pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Top Up systems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Helen McClay
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01872255997
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