Job summary
- Main area
- Lead Pharmacy Technician
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 396-NN-6405673-ACS-Z
- Employer
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Kingston
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 pa incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacy Technician, Formulary and Medicines Optimisation
Band 7
Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
We employ just under 5000 staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.
The South West London Collaborative Bank
Kingston Hospital is a part of the local South West London Collaborative and offer competitive bank rates to work across the three NHS trusts: St Georges, Kingston Hospital and Epsom & St Helier. Our Smart App booking system makes life easier for flexible working!
Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits
The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and invests heavily in the wellbeing of its staff. Alongside opportunities for career development, there is a dedicated team of Staff Pastoral Wellbeing Practitioners who work with the Clinical and Corporate divisions, to provide pastoral support to all staff. These Practitioners are part of the wider Health & Wellbeing provision which includes a specialist Staff Physiotherapist, Occupational Health and access to counselling and an Employee Assistance Programme. The team works together to enhance staff wellbeing and to promote a healthy work-life balance.
Recent awards:
- Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 – Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year
- HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019
- NHSE National Healthcare Support Worker Award for Innovation and Excellence in Pastoral Support – 2023
- NHSE London Healthcare Support Worker Award for Sustainable Retention Initiative – 2023
Trust Values
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:
- Caring – Design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
- Safe – Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
- Responsible – All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
- Value Each Other – Value each other's contribution
- Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients
Job overview
Do you want to make a real difference to patients and staff in the NHS? Are you passionate about collaborative work?
The South West London Acute Provider Collaborative (APC) supports our local acute Trusts in working together to improve quality, operational and financial effectiveness. We have a wide range of collaborative programmes across clinical and corporate functions.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and well-motivated Pharmacy Technician to provide high quality and proactive medicines management support to the APC programme.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will provide both technical and clinical support to the SWL Joint Formulary Committee (SWL JFC) team and promote high quality, cost-effective based prescribing across SWL.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone to support the effective delivery of the Pharmacy programme with a focus on the development of the SWL JFC.
This is a peripatetic role, with the post holder expected to spend some time in each of the 4 SWL Trusts (Croydon, Epsom & St Helier, Kingston and St Georges), with the flexibility of working from home.
Working for our organisation
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued, and value each other. To support this our five values are that we are all:
Caring – we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants
Safe – we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first)
Responsible – all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation.
Value each other – we all value each other’s contribution.
Inspiring – we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients.
Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday’.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full responsibilities. These will include:
1. Be an active member of the SWL Joint formulary team and co-ordinate and lead the delivery of the SWL Joint formulary.
2. Support the development and the management of the SWL netFormulary.
3. Provide efficient and timely administrative support for the SWL JFC and the SWL Joint formulary team.
4. Support the formulation, prioritisation, and implementation of long-term strategic plans for the SWL Joint Formulary in line with local, network and national objectives.
5. To lead on all aspects of SWL Joint Medicines formulary including comprehensive development, review, updates, and maintenance.
6. To support and facilitate the formulary medicine applications received.
7. Provide professional advice, support, and training to all relevant staff on matters relating to formulary and netFormulary®.
8. To provide support to clinicians and the formulary pharmacist for the new drug entry process and ensure pharmacy procedures are followed for all non-formulary prescribing.
9. To promote good prescribing practice throughout SWL trusts in accordance with the formulary and ensure that prescribing across the interface is streamlined to optimise patient care.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC + NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Services
- Diploma or equivalent significant post qualification experience in either primary or secondary care providing prescribing advice
- Accredited checking pharmacy technician (ACPT)
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Experience & Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of undertaking formulary work and/or medicines optimisation
- Experience of managing change and leading service development
- Experience in supporting drug expenditure reporting
- Experience of writing/ implementing guidelines/ policies/ protocols
- Good negotiation skills and the ability to influence medical, pharmacy and management staff at divisional/directorate level
- Ability to provide highly complex information on Pharmacy Services issues and impart knowledge to all levels of healthcare professionals.
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shireen Rahhal
- Job title
- SWL Acute Provider Collab. Pharmacy Prog. Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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