Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The roles will cover the entire health board. Applications will be asked to state a site preference as their base during their interview)
- Job ref
- 110-PST043-0524
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB
- Town
- Mount Ash
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/06/2024
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacy Technician - HePMA & Informatics
Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
As a Lead HePMA Pharmacy Technician, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the efficient and safe operation of workflows within the system. You will take on leadership responsibilities to configure, implement and optimise Nervecentre HePMA within the organisation, which will revolutionise the delivery of healthcare within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Joining our multidisciplinary team offers an exciting opportunity foster team development and contribute to healthcare delivery by harnessing technology to enhance medication safety and delivering our strategy of a healthier Wales.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
- To contribute and participate in the coordination of all aspects of the HePMA implementation and dependent systems e.g. Welsh Clinical Portal/PMS.
- Ensure all medicines built in HePMA comply with relevant Pharmaceutical legislation to ensure patient safety is maintained
- To lead on the configuration of the HePMA software providing specialist knowledge input from their relevant field.
- Development and implementation of new policies and procedures to ensure safe medication practice with HePMA.
- Lead on the business process for medicines management from a technical perspective.
- Acting as HePMA pharmacy leader for technicians and support staff.
- Understand the use of other systems and how they interact i.e. System C, MTeD.
- Responsible for planning and managing own workload and delegating to Specialist HePMA Pharmacy Technicians.
- High level of accuracy skills required as the post holder will be building drugs in a HePMA system for administration to patients.
- Be an ambassador for HePMA, digital working and the concept of ‘digital first’ wards and hospitals.
- Ensure effective communication between the project implementation team and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, using persuasion and negotiation skills to ensure key stakeholders are engaged
- Manage the development and delivery of training relating to all aspects of HePMA and other medicines-related technical solutions.
- Act as a mentor for staff undertaking formal training schemes
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge, Experience, Skills
Essential criteria
- Registered Pharmacy Technician
- Digital Pharmacy system experience
- Management/leadership qualification
- SOP writing experience
- Excellent organisational skills, demonstrates leadership, relationship skills
- Able to work under pressure on own initiative
- Methodical/reliable/accurate/organised
Desirable criteria
- RPS member
- SQL training
- Service improvement qualification - Silver
- Experience of managing ePMA system
- Knowledege of PRINCE2 principles
Other
Essential criteria
- Willing to travel within health board, work flexible hours around go-live support
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Patrick Singh
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist - ePMA & Informatics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02921 500 200
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