Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Technician
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-7063402-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whitchurch Community Hospital
- Town
- Whitchurch
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician - Virtual Ward
NHS AfC: Band 5
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
Are you a Pharmacy Technician looking for a role where you can make a difference in your community? Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is expanding our Virtual Ward service and we’re looking for a Pharmacy Technician to join our growing Pharmacy Team.
Our Virtual Ward provides hospital-level care to patients in their own homes, supporting conditions such as respiratory, cardiology, and frailty. The aim is to prevent avoidable hospital admissions and enable early discharge, ensuring patients receive high-quality care in the comfort of their familiar surroundings.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
As a Pharmacy Technician within the virtual ward team, you’ll play a key role in supporting safe and effective medication management. You will:
- Provide high-quality pharmaceutical and technical services directly to Virtual Ward patients.
- Participate in medication reviews and clinical audits.
- Play a crucial role in medication management during care transitions into and out of the Virtual Ward environment.
- Conduct home visits to patients in their own homes or care settings to offer holistic pharmaceutical care and assess medicines concordance.
- Collaborate with the MDT to develop and enhance the pharmacy services provided by our virtual wards.
You will work alongside an experienced Senior Pharmacy Technician, who will mentor and develop you, and have the support of the Principal Pharmacist for Virtual Wards.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see further information on the attached document entitled job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Qualifications: BTEC Pharmaceutical Science and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy
- Current Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Qualified to administer medicines to patients using electronic prescriptions or has a willingness to work towards completing this competency.
- Able to demonstrate degree level or equivalent post registration experience as a Pharmacy Technician.
- Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable post qualification experience in a patient facing role
- Able to demonstrate post-qualification experience working within a multi-disciplinary team
- Demonstrable experience of providing a pharmacy service on a hospital ward and counselling patients
- Demonstrable experience of using a range of medicines management procedures and practices
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Proficient in all Microsoft Office software with proven computer literacy and IT skills in:
- Experience of using Pharmacy systems
- Knowledge of using search engines/medical databases to retrieve information
- Evidence of undertaking medicine management audits
- Evidence of good analytical skills and shows attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy
- Demonstrate accurate numeric skills
- Good knowledge of pharmacy practice and clinical governance initiatives relating to medicines
- Good understanding of law and ethics related to prescribing, storage and handling of pharmaceuticals
- Ability to work well with all grades of staff internally as part of a team and externally including ward staff, doctors and patients
- Good knowledge of commonly prescribed drugs, their uses and main counselling points
- Demonstrate ability to maintain required competencies for medicines management duties
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
- Abdul Alam
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974905718
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