Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Technician/ Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4 / Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6398586AZ
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields, Tyne and Wear
- Salary
- £25,147 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician/ Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician
NHS AfC: Band 4 / Band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic and determined individuals to join our progressive team, with a national reputation for innovation and development. You will be part of a clinical team working using your skills for patients and service users on general wards, in specialist clinics, GP practices and a range of community settings.
We are delivering new ways of providing direct patient care in acute and community settings. You will be part of this exciting future, where artificial health boundaries are broken down to improve patient care. Pharmacy is fully integrated within the Trust’s enhanced care teams, providing care to our frail/high risk patients living in their own homes or care homes. It is also increasing its service within primary medical care practices, enabling delivery of care to patients with long-term conditions as part of a multidisciplinary approach.
Pharmacy Technician Band 4 - Annex 20 applies This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
Medicines Management Pharmacy Technicians - (Band 5)
Just for your info: Below are our Payscales:
Main duties of the job
All of our Pharmacy Technicians (Band 4) are rotational, they are given the support and development opportunities to have an input into our clinical ward services and to gain the required Accuracy Checking Qualification to participate in the final checking roster.
Our Medicines Management Pharmacy Technicians (Band 5) are accredited checkers and have substantial ward based and functional responsibilities. Opportunities for further development are available within our expanding forward thinking service.
Successful candidates will be appointed to the appropriate position as per their qualifications and experience at time of interview.
We would welcome applications from pre-registration pharmacy technicians who are due to complete their training, qualify and register with the GPhC in 2024.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide technical support on pharmaceutical matters, medicines management issues and medicines legislation within a delegated area of responsibility on a routine basis, but also, whenever required, to other specialist areas e.g. ward/clinical setting, aseptics.
To deliver on a delegated area of responsibility on a departmental basis, as specified by the Dispensary and Ward Services Manager e.g. Health and Safety, management of patients on clozapine, staff rosters, over-labelling or emergency drug cupboard.
To participate in a weekend pharmacy service and relevant bank holiday
arrangements (unless otherwise agreed upon appointment).
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications - Band 4
Essential criteria
- Band 4: BTEC in pharmaceutical science or NVQ Level 3 supported by appropriate underpinning knowledge e.g. BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences, NPA or equivalent qualification.
- Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.(If not registered upon applying for post
- IT skills to include word,excel, powerpoint and pharmacy ordering and dispensing systems.
- To work towards completing an appropriate accredited technician checking qualification when competency requirements are met and a training opportunity arises there is an expectation that this is achieved within 24 months of appointment. An accredited checker can carry out accuracy checks of dispensed items following validation/clinical check of order by a pharmacist. They will know when and to whom to refer any problems, and will have a duty of care to ensure their work is of a required standard as dictated in departmental standard operating procedures.
- To work towards the relevant modules (1 and 2 for assessing patients own drugs and ordering) of the regional medicines management course or equivalent – This must be completed within 6 months of induction
- • Have relevant evidence of CPD demonstrating that their knowledge and training are current.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.
Qualifications Band 5
Essential criteria
- BAND 5 - BTEC in pharmaceutical science or NVQ Level 3 supported by appropriate underpinning knowledge e.g. BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences, NPA or equivalent qualification
- Regional Qualification or equivalent for Medicines Management for Pharmacy Technicians. (If not already held there will be an expectation to achieve this when a training opportunity becomes available).
- Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence of relevant specialist continuing professional development.
- To have successfully completed an appropriate accredited technician checking qualification e.g. Regional Scheme, Buttercups. Regional Qualification for Medicines Management for Pharmacy Technicians (if not already held there will be an expectation to achieve this when a training opportunity becomes available).
- A1 or equivalent NVQ assessor qualification (if not already held there will be an expectation to achieve this when a training opportunity becomes available).
- IT skills to include pharmacy systems, Microsoft word and Excel.
- Relevant evidence of CPD demonstrating that their knowledge and training are current and show evidence of revalidation if appropriate
- The above qualifications will ensure the post holder has the required skills for the role and has the specialist training and experience to degree or equivalent level.
Experience - Band 5
Essential criteria
- Band 5 - Extensive relevant experience working in Pharmacy with post-qualification relevant experience in a hospital or primary care setting as a qualified/registered pharmacy technician
- Knowledge of the operation of Hospital Pharmacy Services.
- The post holder will have experience of working at ward level or in a clinical setting, or primary care setting.
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
- Kate Smith
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist Workforce Development
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01912932729
- Additional information
Amanda Scott
Pharmacy Ward Services Lead
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
0191 293 2729
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