Job summary
Employer heading
Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician - Band 5 to 6 progression
Band 5
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 challenging and rewarding opportunity to join our department as a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician. We are seeking a Pharmacy Technician who is forward thinking and highly motivated in a developmental role and work as a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician progressing to a Band 6 Pharmacy Technician on completion of the Level 4 Clinical Diploma. They must be committed to the delivery of a high quality, safe and effective pharmacy service.
The post holder will join a team of specialist and generalist clinical pharmacists, medicines optimisation technicians and pharmacy assistants in delivering high quality, safe and effective care to patients and service users. They will undertake a wide range of clinical pharmacy activities in addition to six monthly specialist rotations. These areas include and are not limited to: pre-operative assessment, spinal rehabilitation medicine, clinical trials, homecare, complex long-term bone and soft-tissue infection management as well as post-operative care and high dependency/critical care.
This is a full time role (37.5 hours) post for a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician who will play an integral part of the medicines optimisation clinical services team providing a Pharmacy service and working closely within the multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, forward thinking and pro-active clinically orientated medicines optimisation Pharmacy Technician to join our progressive team at RNOH. There is extensive scope for the successful applicant to develop on both a personal and professional level through exposure to all departmental activities, contributing towards portfolio building and the opportunity for further roles in the future.
The post holder will be required to possess good communication and interpersonal skills, be able to work effectively in busy environments both independently and within a team. Computer skills are essential. Ideally, the post holder should have previous NHS experience.
Working for our organisation
RNOH Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) 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. 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. RNOH is rated good by the CQC and covers 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. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Contribute to the Trust medicines optimisation agenda to ensure delivery of a safe, clinically and cost effective pharmacy service
- Undertake or willing to work towards Medicines Optimisation training
- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to deliver patient focused care and ensure a timely supply of medicines, utilisation of patients’ own medicines and medicines adherence training
- Participate in medicines optimisation, ward top-up and ward-based dispensing
- Provide dispensary-based patient services to inpatients and outpatients including clinical trials
- Complete or work towards working as an Accredited Pharmacy Checking Technician qualification
- To contribute to the education and training programme for all pharmacy and clinical staff
- To meet the department and Trust’s audit agenda and quality improvement objectives
- Undertake a course in Education and Training to facilitate learning
Through provision of an effective Pharmacy service, this post will;
- Challenge your problem solving skills
- Strengthen your organisational skills by co-ordination and prioritisation of work
- Improve communication skills
- Development and expand on management and leadership skill
The post holder must hold Level 3 BTEC and NVQ in Pharmacy Services Certificate or equivalent and must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification in Pharmacy and member of the GPhC
- Completed or working towards Accredited Checking Technician
- Completed or towards a formal Medicines Optimisation Programme
- Mandatory professional CPD as defined by GPhC
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Assessor Training
- Other Education and Training qualifications
- Appropriate short management courses
- Working towards BTEC L4 Diploma
Experience
Essential criteria
- A minimum of 2 years clinical pharmacy experience in an acute NHS Trust
- Experience in delivering training in clinical areas
- Has working clinically/good knowledge of clinical systems and processes in the NHS
- Understanding in principle change management procedures
- Working knowledge of pharmacy computer systems
Desirable criteria
- Experience in training users in use of complex IT systems
- Technical experience of clinical applications / systems
- Experience of problem solving and negotiating with clinical and non-clinical staff
- Previous experience working in the support of clinical applications /systems
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Good ability to organise and prioritise work
- Experience of medicines counselling in inpatient/outpatient settings
- A good knowledge of national and local NHS priorities that directly affect Pharmacy
- Working knowledge of computer systems including Microsoft Word and Excel
- Ability to work both alone and as part of a team
- Good personal organisation and time management skills
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance agenda
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
- Vishakha.patani
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02089095410
- Additional information
If you are interested and would like more information or visit the department, please contact Vishakha Patani on 020 8909 5826 or [email protected].
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