Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Technician
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent: Participation in the weekend, Bank Holiday and late duty rotas
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 396-NN-6395325-ACS-Z
- Employer
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Kingston
- Salary
- £29,460 - £31,909 pa incl of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician
Band 4
Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership
Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.
We employ just under 5000 staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.
The South West London Collaborative Bank
Kingston Hospital is a part of the local South West London Collaborative and offer competitive bank rates to work across the three NHS trusts: St Georges, Kingston Hospital and Epsom & St Helier. Our Smart App booking system makes life easier for flexible working!
Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits
The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and invests heavily in the wellbeing of its staff. Alongside opportunities for career development, there is a dedicated team of Staff Pastoral Wellbeing Practitioners who work with the Clinical and Corporate divisions, to provide pastoral support to all staff. These Practitioners are part of the wider Health & Wellbeing provision which includes a specialist Staff Physiotherapist, Occupational Health and access to counselling and an Employee Assistance Programme. The team works together to enhance staff wellbeing and to promote a healthy work-life balance.
Recent awards:
- Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 – Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year
- HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019
- NHSE National Healthcare Support Worker Award for Innovation and Excellence in Pastoral Support – 2023
- NHSE London Healthcare Support Worker Award for Sustainable Retention Initiative – 2023
Trust Values
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:
- Caring – Design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
- Safe – Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
- Responsible – All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
- Value Each Other – Value each other's contribution
- Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients
Job overview
Are you a Hospital Pharmacy Technician or a Community Pharmacy Technician interested working in a hospital setting or want to develop in a new environment? Then this could be the role you have been looking for. We are seeking an enthusiastic and well-motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly team.
You will primarily be working in the inpatients dispensary and there will be an opportunity to support the Emergency Department with dispensing, enhancing your current skills whilst developing new ones. You will also be given the opportunity to complete your Practice Supervisor Training (PS).
In addition to effective communication and team-working skills, you must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and have completed, or be willing to undertake training, to become an Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT).
To support 7 day working, you will be required to work at weekends, Bank Holidays and late duty according to rotas.
Main duties of the job
1. To identify prescriptions that might present risks to patients and ensure that relevant issues are resolved before dispensing.
2. To dispense prescriptions for individual patients, ensuring that they are provided with the correct medicine, in the right form, in a timely manner.
3. To counsel patients on the safe use of medicines.
4. To rotate into the Emergency Department to support with the dispensing.
Working for our organisation
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other. To support this, our five values are that we are all:
Caring – we design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants
Safe – we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first)
Responsible – all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
Value each other – we all value each other’s contribution
Inspiring – we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients
Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in job description and person specification***
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTec in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- NVQ level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science (or equivalent)
- Registered as a Technician with the GPhC
Desirable criteria
- Accreditation in Checking of Dispensing
Experience & Skills
Essential criteria
- Dispensing and supply of medicines
- NHS Dispensing practices
- Excellent communication skills on both a written and verbal basis
Desirable criteria
- A minimum of 6 months recent UK NHS hospital experience
Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lukas Hogh
- Job title
- Senior Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8934 3738
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