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Job summary

Main area
Medicine & Inpatient dispensary
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Split role- Dispensary + Medicine)
Job ref
358-6324069-CSI
Employer
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Leicester Royal Infirmary
Town
Leicester
Salary
£28,407 - £34,581 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Medicines Management Technician- Medicine/Dispensary

NHS AfC: Band 5

We are actively promoting flexible working options, helping you to manage a work / life balance

Job overview

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly team to provide support to both the Emergency & Specialist Medicine team and the Inpatient Dispensary. We are a friendly and dedicated team with a passion for delivering excellent patient care.

This split role will enable you to develop both your clinical, and leadership skills

Main duties of the job

Our team aims to provide a high level of clinical expertise to patients. As a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician, your role will be to ascertain patient drug histories and reconciling medicines to ensure our patients receive the correct medicine whilst in our hospitals.

You will also assess patient's own medication, support one stop dispensing and facilitate patient discharge.

You will also support our clinical areas with their pharmacy stock management including controlled drugs and facilitate/complete ward audit.

You will be required to participate in late duty, weekend, on-call and the Bank Holiday rota. 

In the inpatient dispensary, your main priorities would be workflow management, staff allocation/supervision, and improvement works

*YOU MUST DEMONSTRATE THAT YOU MEET THE ESSENTIAL CRITERIA IN YOUR APPLICATION, OR WE WILL BE UNABLE TO SHORTLIST*

Working for our organisation

We are one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the country, incorporating the General, Glenfield and Royal Infirmary hospitals. We have our very own Children's Hospital and run one of the country's leading heart centre.

Our team is made up of more than 17,000 staff providing a range of services primarily for the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We work with partners at the University of Leicester and De Montfort University providing world-class teaching to nurture and develop the next generation of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, many of whom go on to spend their working lives with us.

Our purpose is to provide 'Caring at its best' and our staff have helped us create a set of values that embody who we are and what we're here to do. They are:

o We are one team

o We are Inclusive

o We are proud

o We are Compassionate

Our patients are at the heart of all we do and we believe that caring at its best is not just about the treatments and services we provide, but about giving our patients the best possible experience.

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: (leicestershospitals.nhs.uk)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To co-ordinate medicines supply activity at ward level and to provide effective communication and co-ordination with central dispensaries.
  • To be responsible for the supply of items for one-stop dispensing (once clinically checked by pharmacist). This will include generating the order, dispensing and placing in patient's bedside medicine cabinet and endorsing charts as per departmental policy.
  • To ensure all patient medication is transferred to the correct ward with the correct patient as necessary.
  • To implement and maintain the Patients Own Drug (POD) scheme for the designated area (and self-administration where introduced) according to Trust-wide policies.
  • To undertake patient counselling on selected patients and to work with the clinical pharmacist to ensure patients understand their discharge medication.
  • Support workflow in the inpatient dispensary
  • Deputise in the absence of the Team Leader

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered pharmacy technician with GPHC
  • Accredited accuracy checker

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Suitable experience of working as a registered pharmacy technician
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working on wards

Communication

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of communication and working with others

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Rebecca Wolfe
Job title
CMG Lead Pharmacy Technician - ESM
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0116 258 7754
Additional information

Additional contact:

Sarah Johnson - Principal Pharmacy Technician- Operations

[email protected]

07811024826

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