• Job Description

  Req#: C9378-QA01207?language=en&page=31&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  37.5 Hours Per Week.

  We are looking to recruit a Band 4 Pharmacy Technician to support medicines management for service users and the wider multidisciplinary team here at South West Yorkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

  Our trust offers mental health, community and learning disability services as well as providing a pharmacy service to two rehabilitation wards and a hospice.

  We are a small pharmacy team, based at Kendray Hospital Barnsley. You will be expected to work effectively and efficiently as part of a team as well as independently. Travelling across the locality, with some days working at Fieldhead Hospital, Wakefield, to maintain competencies.

  The successful candidate must be enthusiastic, self-motivated with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, you should also be able to prioritise your own workload.

  Applicants must hold a BTEC level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science/NVQ3 in pharmacy services or equivalent pharmacy qualification. You MUST be registered with the GPhC and be willing to undertake internal competency-based training as part of the role.

  Main duties of the job

  The post holder will work with other professionals to provide a comprehensive pharmacy technical service to inpatient and community settings trust wide.

  This includes managing, ordering, and maintaining stock levels, undertaking medicines reconciliation on all newly admitted patients, ordering medicines using the electronic prescribing system (EPMA), participating in discharge facilitation, and ensuring all work-based validations are up to date.

  Part of the role will include assessing compliance with the key safety standards for medicines which have been identified from the trusts medicine code, pharmacy standard operating procedures, Care Quality Commission and NHS England Patient Safety recommendations on ALL in-patient wards and community settings.

  Excellent communication skills are essential to this role as the job involves liaising patients, carers, ward staff and medics as well as GP practices, community pharmacies and other NHS Trusts/organisations.

  About us

  We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

  Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

  We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

  Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

  Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

  We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

  We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

  Date posted

  13 March 2024

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 4

  Salary

  £25,147 to £27,596 a year

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  C9378-QA01207

  Job locations

  Kendray Hospital

  Doncaster Road

  Barnsley

  S Yorkshire

  S70 3RD

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  To work with the senior technicians in the locality to provide a technical pharmacy service to the Inpatient and Outpatient areas across the locality including checking patients own medication on admission.

  Maintain competencies by undertaking both in-house and nationally recognised validations as appropriate.

  Maintain competencies for dispensing of medications.

  To ensure patient information leaflets are available on allocated units and in identified areas and keep all pharmacy information up to date.

  To ensure stocks of medicines are available on all allocated wards and departments through the named patient and stock top up service.

  Working to standard operating procedures (SOPs) provide pharmacy service to allocated units/ wards.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  To work with the senior technicians in the locality to provide a technical pharmacy service to the Inpatient and Outpatient areas across the locality including checking patients own medication on admission.

  Maintain competencies by undertaking both in-house and nationally recognised validations as appropriate.

  Maintain competencies for dispensing of medications.

  To ensure patient information leaflets are available on allocated units and in identified areas and keep all pharmacy information up to date.

  To ensure stocks of medicines are available on all allocated wards and departments through the named patient and stock top up service.

  Working to standard operating procedures (SOPs) provide pharmacy service to allocated units/ wards.

  Person Specification

  Special Knowledge/Skills

  Essential

  • Pharmaceutical Waste management.
  • Misuse of drugs act 197.
  • Regulations on Controlled Drugs in Primary and secondary care.
  • Good communication skills both oral and written.
  • Good time management & organisational skills.
  • Good computer / IT skills.

  Desirable

  • Hospital computer systems JAC.
  • Knowledge and experience of dispensing prescriptions for service users with mental health problems.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • NVQ Level 3, BTEC, or similar nationally recognized qualification in pharmaceutical sciences.
  • Current registration as pharmacy technician in UK.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of working in a UK pharmacy either community or hospital.
  • Use of pharmacy procurement and dispensing systems.

  Desirable

  • Hospital pharmacy experience.
  • Experience of working in mental health pharmacy.
  • Linking with community pharmacies, home care.
  • Managing supplies for offsite unit and teams

  Training

  Desirable

  • Medicines management training.

  Physical Attributes

  Essential

  • Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

  Personal Attributes

  Essential

  • Self-motivated.
  • Team player.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Well-motivated, enthusiastic, and adaptable.
  • Commitment to CPD.
  • Understanding of mental health related issues.

  Desirable

  • A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability.

  Person Specification

  Special Knowledge/Skills

  Essential

  • Pharmaceutical Waste management.
  • Misuse of drugs act 197.
  • Regulations on Controlled Drugs in Primary and secondary care.
  • Good communication skills both oral and written.
  • Good time management & organisational skills.
  • Good computer / IT skills.

  Desirable

  • Hospital computer systems JAC.
  • Knowledge and experience of dispensing prescriptions for service users with mental health problems.

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • NVQ Level 3, BTEC, or similar nationally recognized qualification in pharmaceutical sciences.
  • Current registration as pharmacy technician in UK.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience of working in a UK pharmacy either community or hospital.
  • Use of pharmacy procurement and dispensing systems.

  Desirable

  • Hospital pharmacy experience.
  • Experience of working in mental health pharmacy.
  • Linking with community pharmacies, home care.
  • Managing supplies for offsite unit and teams

  Training

  Desirable

  • Medicines management training.

  Physical Attributes

  Essential

  • Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

  Personal Attributes

  Essential

  • Self-motivated.
  • Team player.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Well-motivated, enthusiastic, and adaptable.
  • Commitment to CPD.
  • Understanding of mental health related issues.

  Desirable

  • A Current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability.

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

  Address

  Kendray Hospital

  Doncaster Road

  Barnsley

  S Yorkshire

  S70 3RD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

  Address

  Kendray Hospital

  Doncaster Road

  Barnsley

  S Yorkshire

  S70 3RD

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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