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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Evening and weekend working (rota))
Job ref
392-RNOH-913
Employer
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
Town
Stanmore
Salary
£40,701 - £48,054 pa inc HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

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Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician - Pre-assessment

Band 6

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. 

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field.  We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

  • Rated Good by the CQC
  • Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
  • Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
  • Recognised as a centre of excellence,  leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
  • Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
  • In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
  • Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

  • Patients first, always
  • Excellence, in all we do
  • Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
  • Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Job overview

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week) for a pharmacy technician to play an integral part of the clinical pharmacy service to the pre-assessment department. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the pharmacy and pre-assessment teams at the RNOH.

We are seeking a self-motivated, innovative and enthusiastic individual who will be working alongside the Principal Pharmacist and Specialist Pharmacist in Pre-assessment.  There is huge scope for the successful applicant to develop on both a personal and professional level through exposure to all departmental activities in this newly created post.

Key responsibilities include:

  • To provide a safe and effective specialist clinical pharmacy service to the pre-assessment clinic (PAC)
  • Assess and prioritise pharmaceutical requirements for patients reviewed prior to  their surgical procedures
  • To manage own case load and provide expert advice on medicines when appropriate
  • Support the development and evaluation of pharmacy services to the PAC
  • Contribute to education and training of nursing, medical and pharmacy staff in specialist area
  • Act as a role model to junior technician staff

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the pharmacy and PAC multidisciplinary teams, you will:

  • Contribute to the provision of a high quality patient focused medicines optimisation service to patients of the Trust.
  • Support pharmacists in service provision and extending the role of a pharmacy technician in PAC
  • Help audit the service against set standards and assist in the review of service provision
  • Ensure safe use of patients’ own medicines to optimise cost efficiency
  • Provide specialist pharmacy technical input into EPMA & POA digital systems, contributing towards both operational and strategic development
  • Carry out medicine histories, advice on medications to be stopped or continued for surgery and escalate for review to pharmacists

Working for our organisation

The RNOH is a national centre of excellence with an international reputation for diagnosis, assessment and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions.

It is an exciting time to join the departments as we look forward to launching an EPR system next year. Alongside the expansion to the theatre facilities, there are ever growing opportunities to contribute to the RNOH medicines optimisation strategy. Our pharmacy dispensary has recently been relocated to an innovative and purpose built area which also has dedicated office workspace and improved facilities for staff training, research, staff rest areas and dedicated patient consultation and waiting areas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details of duties and responsibilities.

Key relationships include:

  • Pharmacy team
  • Clinical & administrative staff involved with Pre-assessment Clinic
  • ICS and primary care representatives
  • All healthcare professionals’ especially medical and nursing staff
  • Patients and their carers
  • EPMA, EPR and Digital Transformation teams
  • Other NHS organisations
  • External customers
  • Research partners at other national and international organisations

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Professional qualification in Pharmacy
  • Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
  • Qualification or equivalent experience in managing and developing complex IT systems
  • Appropriate short management courses
  • Specialist courses/experience in medicines management
  • Project Management qualification and project management experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • A minimum of 3 years clinical pharmacy experience in an acute NHS Trust
  • Proven experience working as a healthcare professional in a hospital setting
  • Experience in training
  • An understanding of the NHS and the interrelationship at a local and national level
  • Has working clinically/good knowledge of clinical systems and processes in the NHS
  • Understanding in principle change management procedures
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience working in the support of clinical applications /systems
  • Experience in training users in use of complex IT systems
  • Technical experience of clinical applications / systems
  • Previous experience of electronic prescribing implementation or use
  • Experience of problem solving and negotiating with clinical and non-clinical staff

Skills

Essential criteria
  • High level of computer literacy
  • Able to work in an organised methodical way, paying key attention to detail
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Good oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to work to demanding deadlines
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Ability to deal with a high level of complexity related to large systems
  • Good analytical and problem solving skills
  • Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance agenda

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Anjna Patel
Job title
Principal Pharmacist, Pre-assessment
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
02089095410
Additional information

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