Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Shift Pattern: 9am-5.30pm Monday to Friday, with 9am-5pm for rostered weekends and bank holidays. Late duty as per roster 9.30am-6pm
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift Pattern: 9am-5.30pm Monday to Friday, with 9am-5pm for rostered weekends and bank holidays. Late duty as per roster 9.30am-6pm)
- Job ref
- 196-LIS9385
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Evelina London Children's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 p.a. inc. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Paediatric Pharmacy Technician-Paediatric Intensive Care
NHS AfC: Band 5
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Senior Paediatric Pharmacy Technician - Paediatric Intensive Care and Surgical Services
A fantastic opportunity has arisen in our Paediatric Intensive Care pharmacy team for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacy technician, who is looking for a new challenge to develop their career within paediatrics.
Working as part of the Paediatric Intensive Care pharmacy team at the Evelina London Children's Hospital Pharmacy, you will play a role in the safe delivery of pharmaceutical care to this group of Paediatric patients and management of high risk medications e.g. intravenous drugs. Working in a structured environment providing support to the wider team to meet key directorate targets.
If you are seeking to expand your clinical skills and help to improve patient safety, making a difference to children's care then this is your ideal job.
The post offers a chance to contribute to the continued development of pharmacy services within the children's hospital.
Closing date: 30th March 2025
Interview date week commencing : 14th April 2025
If applying, please make sure you are available to attend in person for an interview on this date as alternative dates cannot be offered.
Main duties of the job
The post is suitable for patient-focused technician with good interpersonal skills who are sensitive to the needs of the patients and their carers. You would require excellent communication and team working skills. Able to work independently and be flexible to adapt to the changing service demands meeting any set deadlines. The role is embedded in the ward teams by supporting our nursing/medical and pharmacy teams to resolve any medicines management issues.
You will be responsible for providing a safe, efficient and accurate ward-based pharmacy service for hospital inpatients by liaising closely with pharmacists, nursing and medical staff on wards.
You will already possess an accredited checking pharmacy technician (ACPT) qualification.
For all pharmacy technician posts you require to have successfully completed an NVQ Pharmaceutical Services Level 3 or equivalent and be registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation
The Pharmacy departments of Guys and St Thomas’ provide safe and effective pharmaceutical ward and dispensary services to the many inpatients and outpatients of the Trust’s many specialities
Our intensive care unit (known as PICU) cares for critically ill children, and provides support to their families. We're the lead centre for critically ill children for the south Thames region and provide a wide range of services and clinical expertise. We're also a busy cardiac unit, providing all types of heart surgery (except heart and lung transplants) and a cardiorespiratory centre
The post holder must demonstrate their commitment to upholding the Trust values, within which we carry out our roles:
Caring – we put patients first
Ambitious – we innovate and strive for excellence
Inclusive – we respect each other and work collaboratively
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Operational
- Provide a pharmaceutical Medicines Management service to patients. This includes:
- Record accurate written medication reconciliations for newly admitted and transferred patients.
- Assessing Patients own Drugs for suitability for use in the Trust.
- Communicating detailed information to patients/carers about drug doses, indications, side effects and efficacy.
- Liaising widely (e.g. GP staff, patients, carers etc.) to ensure the timely availability of patients medication.
- Reviewing and ordering patient specific medication for new and repeat items to ensure timely and cost-effective supplies using the departments MMP system.
- Reviewing MMP medications, ordering and dispensing TTO prescriptions to ensure availability of stock to ensure timely supply for patient discharge.
- Ensure all relevant medicines are transferred with the patient throughout their journey, to minimise wastage including aseptic products.
- Final check of clinically screened discharge medicines against the TTO before release to the patient.
- Participate in the dispensing and checking of controlled drugs. Ensuring appropriate storage, accuracy and record keeping is followed.
- Participating in the three monthly CD stock checks and safe and secure storage audits.
- Provide a safe and efficient supply of pharmaceutical products to patients. This may involve the:
- Dispensing and final checking of drug products and compliance aids after screening by Pharmacist.
- Working in the dispensary on a session basis, ensuring that good dispensing practices are followed. Ensure that procedures relating to good dispensing practice are followed, and encourage and maintain high standards and orderly methods of working.
- Assist in the delivery of all aspects of storage, record keeping, stock control and stock rotation on the wards, dispensary and specified Directorate.
- Responsible for the operational delivery of the medicine packs for the South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS).
- Assist in project work as required.
Stock Control
- Supervise stock and consumable management in the pharmacy on wheels (POWs)/pharmacy satellite areas, including stock checks, stock rotation, expiry date checks and relevant documentation.
- Assist with the review of ward stock lists to reduce risk and wastage. Including periodic review of the South Thames Retrieval Service medicine pack contents.
- Participate in the problem solving of incorrect stock levels, generated by stock checks and adhoc queries.
- Responsible for the management of medicine waste and medication returns. Ensuring recycling and destruction procedures are adhered to.
- Participate in the investigation and required actions of drug alerts/recalls and out of stocks.
Management and Supervision
- Assist in the supervision of pharmacy assistants, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians, qualified technicians, trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists, to ensure that work is conducted to a high standard and in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures.
Management and Supervision
- Supervise Rotational Technicians, Pharmacy Assistants, Pre-registration Technicians and Pre-registration Pharmacists to ensure that work is conducted to a high standard and in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures.
Quality Management and Clinical Governance
- Ensures that the Trust and departmental Health and Safety policies and procedures are understood and adhered to by all staff working in the team.
- Assist in the collection and preparation of workload quality and financial indicators.
Training
- Participate in the education and training of multidisciplinary staff (e.g. doctors/nurses) as required.
- Undertake CPD and to attend courses in practice areas where needs are identified.
- Participate in the department performance review scheme by attending regular review sessions with the principal paediatric pharmacy technician - ward service.
- Participate in the induction and training of volunteers, pharmacy assistants, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians, qualified technicians, trainee pharmacist and junior pharmacists.
- Participate in the assessments and appraisals of the pharmacy assistants, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians and qualified technicians.
Research and Development
- Routinely gathers data for the audit of services and assists with analysis.
Other Duties
- Participate in the departmental performance review scheme by attending regular review sessions with the Principal Paediatric Pharmacy Technician – Ward Services.
- Participate in the Evelina London pharmacy and paediatric intensive care pharmacy meetings and training sessions.
- Participate in the various departmental rotas, including weekend, bank holiday and late night rotas.
- Participate in any other duties requested by the pharmacy operations manager and principal paediatric pharmacy technicians.
- Work in line with trust policies and procedures.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Dispense accurately to set standards
- Counsel and give advice to patients/their carers on their/child’s medications
- Final check of clinically screened prescriptions
- Accurately record patient medicine reconciliation
- Accurately assess suitability of patient’s own medication
- Work independently and accurately under pressure
- Prioritise and organise routine daily tasks using own initiative
- Plan, organise and deliver, training and assessment
- Motivate self and others
- Communicate routine, more complex and sensitive information effectively using clear written and spoken English and overcome barriers to understanding, to a diverse group of staff patients and carers
- Clearly and accurately complete complex routine and non-routine documentation
- Work to set procedures
- Pharmacy computer and IT skills
- Effective customer service skills
Desirable criteria
- Write standard operating procedures
- Using Epic computer system - Electronic prescribing and medicine administrations (ePMA) records.
- Delivering induction and training
- Undertake recruitment and selection of pharmacy staff
- Conduct appraisals /performance development reviews
- Working in multi-disciplinary teams
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working in a busy hospital dispensary
- Medicines management experience at ward based
- Supervising and mentoring pharmacy staff
- Checking of medicines in a hospital pharmacy environment
Desirable criteria
- Working in a children’s hospital dispensary
- Supervising the day to day running of a dispensary
- Stock level management and maintenance
- Working with children or in an intensive care unit.
- Working with Epic computer system - Electronic prescribing and medicine administrations (ePMA) records
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- NVQ Pharmacy services Level 3 plus an accredited underpinning knowledge
- Completion of a recognised Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification
Desirable criteria
- Practice/Educational Supervisor qualification
- Medicine Management accreditation
- Supervisory/leadership or management qualification
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
- Hannah Legg
- Job title
- Principal Paediatric Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071889152
- Additional information
Alternatively please contact:
Patricia Hayes
Pharmacy Operations Manager
[email protected]
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