Clinical Pharmacy Technician

• Provide comprehensive technical support to all members of the department in the provision of a dispensary service.
• Ensure the timely and efficient delivery of requests for pharmaceutical products across the Trust by the dispensing and issuing of prescriptions, signed orders and controlled drugs orders establishing and maintain a communication link between pharmacy and the wards served.
• Providing a ward-based Pharmacy Technician service to designated wards. This will include medicines reconciliation of newly admitted patients, assessment of patients own drugs, overseeing the ordering of medication and c-ordinating the supply of discharge medication.
• To counsel patients on the routine use of their medicines, providing specific information to any special requirements ensuring patients understand their discharge medication.
• To act as an Accredited Checking Technician under a nationally recognised accuracy checking technician framework. To perform a final accuracy check on dispensed items against prescriptions and requisitions. To show continuous competency in checking accurately and safely.
• Supervising student pharmacy technicians, pharmacy support workers, dispensers and trainees in the department and across all wards.
• Liaising with pharmacists and a multi-disciplinary team to ensure a proficient and comprehensive medicines management service to all patients and staff across the integrated care system supporting across primary and secondary care.

Essential

• Knowledge of medicines management, including relevant legislation and policies acquired through NVQ3 or BTEC equivalent level qualification plus specialist training and experience to degree or equivalent level
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures acquired through training, NVQ3, BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent plus other additional training for checking dispensed prescriptions, supervising a technical area within the pharmacy to degree or equivalent level

Desirable

• Team leading or management qualification

Essential

• Demonstrable recent experience of successfully delivering technical pharmacy services as a qualified technician
• Working knowledge of a broad range of medicines and their safety issues
• Understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession
• Experience of working with a Pharmacy computer system e.g. CMM or EMIS, and procurement systems such as Powergate
• Experience of liaising with patients and healthcare staff

Desirable

• Experience of ward-based services, including Patients Own Drug schemes
• Recent hospital experience of working as a registered pharmacy technician
• Interaction with other departments for provision of pharmaceutical supplies
• Experience of dealing with difficult and complex situations, queries and complaints
• Experience of negotiating with healthcare staff, suppliers and/or external organisations

Essential

• Knowledge of prescribing, dispensing and administration processes in the hospital settings
• Ability to cope with busy dispensing workload
• Computer literate and able to use Windows applications including Microsoft Word and Excel, and internet
• Good range of pharmaceutical knowledge
• Able to interpret highly complex data
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of people, including members of the public and all levels of healthcare professionals
• Good analytical and evaluative skills with the ability to investigate queries solve problems and act if appropriate
• Methodical with effective organisational skills in the workplace
• Interest in expending knowledge and self-development