Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: To include weekend and late duties
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (To include weekend and late duties)
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7081420
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 inclusive of Outer HCAs per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician
NHS AfC: Band 6
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
The post holder will support the Clinical Pharmacists in developing, implementing and maintaining a medicines management service at ward level. This will include medicines reconciliation, the assessment of patients own drugs, providing original pack dispensing, counselling patients about their medicines and co-ordinating supply of discharge medicines.
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Main duties of the job
§ To assist the Medication Safety Pharmacist to develop, deliver and evaluate the medication safety programme for the trust in line with objectives set by the Chief Pharmacist and Director of Medicines Optimisation
§ To support and coordinate the delivery of a responsive, proactive, patient-focused clinical pharmacy service to the wards. This will include the promotion of safe, effective and cost effective drug use to facilitate patient admission and enhance continuity of care across the primary/secondary interface.
§ To carry out pharmacy practice research and clinical audit in this area of practice.
§ To promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety - clinical governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines and advises on drug budget management in these areas
§ The post holder will also be responsible for leading the team of ward based technicians and managing their induction, training and appraisal.
§ The post holder will also involve deputising for the Pharmacy Technician Team Manager – Medicines Management and Education, Training & Development in their absence.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached Job Description (JD) / Person Specification (PS) for further details about this position.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Pharmacy services level 3 plus an accredited underpinning knowledge (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent)
- Accredited to perform final accuracy check on previously screened prescriptions and to dispense accurately to set standards
- Medicines Optimisation Program qualification or equivalent
- Educational Supervisor, Practice Supervisor, NVQ assessor qualification or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- NHS Leadership underpinning knowledge e.g. CPPE Leading for Change, Edward Jenner, Mary Seacole or equivalent
- Project management qualification e.g PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent
- NVQ Assessor Qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent leadership skills
- Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills to convey complex and potentially sensitive information
- Effective time management and organisational skills with flexibility to rapidly changing service demands
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex and sensitive problems
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills and ability to negotiate and deal with complaints in the first instance
- Ability to influence and engage all grades of staff
- Excellent IT skills including all MS packages
- Ability to contribute to the strategic development of the pharmacy service
Desirable criteria
- Project management skills
- Risk assessment and risk management skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant previous experience innovating and implementing a technician lead training programme.
- Previous experience of creating and/or implementing rotational objectives
- Previous experience line-managing direct reports including appraisal and probation
- Previous evaluated experience of contribution to the development and final authorisation of SOPs or medicines policies across a variety of tasks as indicated in the job description
- Previous experience of working with HEE / NHSE and Higher Education Institutes.
- Previous experience managing HR processes i.e. sickness management, recruitment and selection
- Previous evaluated experience of planning, organising and delivering induction and competency-based training
Desirable criteria
- Experience implementing and monitoring quality standards
- Experience with HEE / NHS E annual reports and quality visits
- Experience with staff performance management and disciplinary including HEE / NHS E TRAS
- Experience with managing apprentice schemes
- Previous experience collecting, analysing and presenting data for quality improvement projects and governance reports
- Experience of change management, influencing change and quality improvement project work
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates leadership qualities
- High level of self-motivation, commitment and dedication to the role
- High level of professional judgement and integrity
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to work weekends and late duties on a rota basis
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sim Nathoo
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist for Education and Training
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07968014179
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