Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 381-CT-6700246
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lyndon Primary Care Centre
- Town
- West Bromwich
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician
NHS AFC: Band 5
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
Are you a motivated and flexible individual looking for an innovative and rewarding role as a pharmacy technician within primary care?
If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen in Your Health Partnership Primary Care Network for a pharmacy technician to join our integrated Medicines Management Team.
Main duties of the job
- To work under the supervision of the Lead Pharmacist and Senior Clinical Pharmacists to ensure the safe, accurate and timely supply of prescribed medication to patients.
- To provide technical and administrative support to the Clinical Pharmacists and Clinicians.
- To support the primary care team with queries around medication from patients; including face to face and telephone support to patients, primary and community staff.
Working for our organisation
Your Health Partnership (YHP) are a cutting edge Primary Care Network working as part of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust.
We pride ourselves on being both innovative and bold as we plan and deliver services to our patients.
If you value working in a high quality, innovative, integrated environment then please get in touch.
YHP PCN was an early adopter of the General Practice Super Partnership Model over the last 10 years grown to serve around 50,000 patients in our local area. We have worked closely for many years with our local Acute and Community SWB Trusts and in April 2020 vertically integrated to become one of the few Primary Care Directorates in the Country.
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant amount of post-registration experience
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC / NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmacy services
- Completed or willing to enrol on to start 18-month training pathway (e.g. Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes)
Desirable criteria
- Pharmacy Clinical Services Professional diploma (BTEC level 4) or other relevant qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Javed Iqbal
- Job title
- Lead PCN Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01384 245949
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