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Job overview

The Pharmacy team is looking for a registered Pharmacy Technician to join the department on a full-time, fixed term maternity leave cover for 9 months.

You'll be joining a friendly, patient-centred department and will assist in the provision of Pharmacy services to the Trust's hospitals, community clinics and external providers. In doing so you will also be supporting a number of teams within Pharmacy, including dispensary, medicines management and ward teams.

You will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills further through our development programme which includes accuracy checking, medicines management training and leadership training.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for identifying, selecting, dispensing and distributing drugs for inpatient and outpatient prescriptions, as well as pharmaceutical items including Controlled Drugs and extemporaneously prepared products to wards and departments throughout the Trust. You will also act as a point of contact for patients, their families, doctors and other healthcare staff seeking information on medicines.

This role is based at the PAH main site.

The general working pattern is 37.5 hours per week over a 7 day period, with usual working hours 9-5 Monday to Friday and will will include some late standby shifts, weekend and bank holiday working. Part time working would be considered.

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.