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Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Pharmacy Technician to work as a key part of the pharmacy team within our modern automated dispensary.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced registered pharmacy technician to work alongside the Dispensary and Outpatient Services Manager to support and manage the day to day running of the main dispensary and satellite dispensaries, provide direct staff management and training staff through supervision and monitoring performance and help improve service development in a busy hospital pharmacy department.

The post holder will also participate in the accuracy checking in the main dispensary or satellite units.

This position requires a proactive and dynamic individual to work closely with peers and Dispensary and Outpatient Services Manager to uphold the high standards of patient care and medicines management. You must be able to demonstrate an enthusiasm for trying new roles, supporting innovation and delivering an excellent patient experience. 

The successful candidate must be registered with the GPhC and have an accuracy checking qualification, and have management experience. Further training will be provided on staff management.

The L&D Pharmacy is a 7 day service and some weekend and late shifts will be required.  

Main duties of the job

To manage the day to day running of the dispensary, as delegated responsibility by the Dispensary Manager, specifically for activities and prescriptions relating to inpatients and virtual wards

To support the day-to-day running of the dispensary as requested by the Dispensary Manager for all activities (including the above plus outpatients, day case prescriptions and controlled drug prescriptions)

To act as an Accredited Checking Technician and to facilitate other technicians in becoming accredited to check

To dispense and issue prescriptions, providing advice as appropriate

To undertake day-to-day supervision of junior pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants

To provide training in dispensary procedures and pharmacy computer use to all members of staff (this will be a major job responsibility)

Working for our organisation

Luton and Dunstable University Hospital, often abbreviated to as the 'L&D', is an acute hospital which is part of the Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS foundation Trust. The L&D provides medical and surgical services for over 350,000 people in Bedfordshire, the north of Hertfordshire and parts of Buckinghamshire and employs over 3,400 staff. The L&D is ideally situated, in south Bedfordshire, enjoying the best of town and countryside – we are minutes from the Chiltern Hills and Dunstable Downs and in just over half an hour, by train, you can be in London. We have excellent communication links to both the north and south of the country via the M1, and also to Europe, via London Luton Airport, which is under 5 miles from the hospital. Our aim is to deliver safe, compassionate and high quality medicines optimisation to patients through a pharmacy workforce who are motivated, highly skilled and well supported in that aim by their peers, by quality healthcare training and development opportunities, by good use of digital and information technology and by clear lean work processes.

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

 

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.