Senior Clinical Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The pharmacy team are forward thinking, passionate and continually strive to improve the delivery of patient focused pharmaceutical care and optimise the use of medicines within the Trust.

Once training is complete the post holder will be able to:

• Autonomously order medicines for individual patients
• Request medication for in-patient use using the electronic order system
• Refer suitable patients for follow-up medicine support with their local pharmacies via the DMS system
• Assist with the review of ward stock lists to reduce risk and medication wastage
• Proactively advise on and ensure the safe and secure storage of medicines on the ward
• Line manage junior staff members
• Be a named mentor for trainee staff and actively support them through their training and competencies

For further details about this position, please contact the hiring manager.

Person specification

Qualifications/Registration

Essential criteria

• BTEC Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent nationally recognised qualification
• Accredited accuracy checker
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable criteria

• Medicines optimisation qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• One year post qualification experience in an acute hospital setting
• One year experience undertaking medicine reconciliation. Evidence of competence to be provided
• Experience of POD or equivalent schemes

Desirable criteria

• Experience of undertaking audits

Skills, Ability and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Extensive knowledge of clinical pharmacy practice and ward based working evidencing their own competence
• Ability to present information concisely and clearly
• Supervisory skills
• Self motivated and ability to work independently

Important information about your application

1. All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
2. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
3. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
5. New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check.
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