Senior Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Safety

• Lead for coordinating action across the Trust to improve compliance with controlled drugs and medicines storage standards in line with legislation, in liaison with the Lead Pharmacist/Technician Medicines Safety. This role will be responsible for: - Provision of specialist advice, tools and upskilling of pharmacy/multi-disciplinary teams across the Trust to enable them to address safe storage requirements when clinical areas are moved/re-designed.
• Developing and undertaking audits to assess compliance with CDs and storage standards for controlled drugs and other medicines; and engaging teams Trust-wide to improve practice.
• Act as a point of contact and resource for pharmacy, medicines management and storage issues, audit and improvement projects, and health and safety.
• Support the Divisional/Trust governance leads in recording, monitoring and feeding back on safety issues, incidents (clinical and non-clinical) and risks within the Division.
• Represent the medicines safety team at Trust meetings and at relevant pharmacy department section meetings to provide specialist safety and quality guidance and ensure best practice.
• Undertake medicines safety incident investigations within pharmacy, developing appropriate preventative actions and lessons learned.
• Support the reporting of clinical and non-clinical incidents and near misses across the organisation.
• Assist in the development of a just and learning culture by engaging managers and staff to identify system failures which contribute to incidents.
• Make a significant contribution to the development of medicines safety improvement strategies and annual plans.
• Design and undertake audit, research and improvement projects within the Department/Trust wide. Collecting, interpreting and analysing data; developing improvement actions; engaging stakeholders and evaluating effectiveness.
• Initiate service/quality improvement ideas and play a key role in generating a culture of continual improvement within the department.
• Support actions in response to National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) alerts and notices and ensure that responses are provided to required timelines.
• Deputise for Lead Pharmacist/Technician Medicines Safety to ensure the medicines safety agenda is delivered in line with trust priorities and timelines.
• Represent the Pharmacy Department in Trust-wide meetings and provide specialist guidance, to ensure high standards of governance are consistently practiced

Essential

• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences (or equivalent)
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Accredited accuracy checker
• Extensive experience working as a qualified Pharmacy Technician, including in a leadership role.
• Significant previous experience and knowledge of working in a hospital pharmacy
• Experience with designing and delivering training for different staff groups
• Experience in writing and reviewing policies, procedures and guidance by interpreting national legislation, policy and guidance
• Experience with medicines safety/clinical governance work

Desirable

• Leadership/management qualification
• Quality improvement qualification or demonstrable training
• Experience of designing, undertaking and supervising audits and service evaluation projects, including developing improvement plans
• Experience of writing business cases and options appraisals

Essential

• Excellent written skills

Desirable

• Advanced skills in presenting information utilising a range of applications
• Comprehensive understanding of Microsoft packages, including as minimum Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access

Essential

• Accurate and methodical with good attention to detail