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Job overview

Are you looking for an exciting new job role? Want to gain experience working in a hospital pharmacy environment? A chance to enhance your Pharmacy career and expand your skillset? Are you a Pre-registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician looking to start your Pharmacy career? Or are you just unsure of where you’d like to specialise? Then we have an exciting opportunity for you!

This essential role provides the opportunity for Pharmacy Technicians to put their skills into practice, working with innovative technology & systems, whilst also continuing to build and develop new skills for future career progression. This role will give you a chance to develop your team leader skills, will allow you to work on CPD and revalidation, promote presentation and poster work, regular group meetings with your peers, look into project work and auditing and really advance your Pharmacy career. 

Our department is proud to prioritise the inclusion of all staff and we support everyone to achieve their potential.

Please sign up to one of the drop-in sessions in the link below to speak to myself (Lottie Harries) and another member of our Rotational Pharmacy Technician team and we can answer any questions you may have prior to the advert closing.

https://forms.office.com/e/b3tFC2X58R

Main duties of the job

To work on rotation in all sections of Pharmacy (as specified), within the Trust, providing services to patients and other customers in accordance with Trust and departmental policies and procedures.

To undertake appropriate post-qualification studies as required

We are able to offer an extensive rotational development programme which is suitable for Pharmacy Technicians joining the Trust from any Pharmacy sector.  Rotations currently include Inpatient Dispensary, Aseptic Services Unit (including both the Cytotoxic & TPN suites), Clinical services (Medicines Management), Medicines information, Quality assurance, Homecare and Central Pharmacy Stores & Distribution (which includes goods in, issuing stock and procurement) and Clinical trials dispensary.

We are looking for Pharmacy Technicians with excellent organisational skills, verbal and non-verbal communication skills, motivated to support others and able to work under pressure whilst ensuring accuracy in all aspects of pharmacy for patient centred care.  We welcome Pharmacy Technicians joining from other sectors and offer bespoke induction arrangements for those new to Hospital Pharmacy.

We encourage applications from pre-registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians who are due to qualify within 6 months, and are working towards registration with the GPhC. 

Working for our organisation

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 11000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.