Senior Medicine Management Technician (Children's Hospital)

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for more information about the job roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Registered

Essential criteria

• General Pharmaceutical Council registered Pharmacy Technician
• Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (Accredited scheme or evidence of in-house validations).

Desirable criteria

• Medicine Management Assessments or Validations (Accredited or proof of in-house training) Proven knowledge and understanding of the medicine management technician role and responsibilities within hospital pharmacy.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• BTEC/NVQ level 3 in pharmaceutical services

Experience

Essential criteria

• Substantial knowledge of medicine management procedures and policies
• Can demonstrate that they can work on their own initiative but know limits of their authority and knowledge.
• Computer literate
• Ability to perform and work under pressure to deliver objectives and plans

Desirable criteria

• Substantial knowledge of medicine management procedures and policies
• Experience in the admission/discharge processes within hospital pharmacy
• Experience of management and coordination of staff within hospital pharmacy
• Proven knowledge and experience in using computer labelling and stock control systems within hospital pharmacy
• Experience of management and coordination of staff within hospital pharmacy

Communication

Essential criteria

• To communicate information relevant to medicine management back to patients, staff and colleagues .
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to liaise with a wide range of staff and patients
• Demonstrates diplomacy in handling difficult staff situations.
• To identify compliance issues and action appropriately
• Clear communication

Planning and organisation skills

Essential criteria

• Experience in organising workload to meet pharmacy services and patients' needs
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others
• Use own initiative and manage own time and deadlines
• Demonstrate ability to multitask
• Persuasive
• Approachable

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria

• Proven evidence of judgement and prioritization skills with regards to targets, deadlines and stock management.
• Proven experience in problem solving
• Demonstrates competency under pressure
• Accurate with good attention to detail
• Good time management

Desirable criteria

• Experience in data collection, activities and analysis
• Ability to delegate and problem solve
• Evidence of project work
• Evidence of understanding extended technical roles within hospital pharmacy

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

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