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Job Description
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- Have experience of working in a hospital pharmacy post registration.
- Communicating effectively with patients and/or carers, giving appropriate advice to and counselling patients and their representatives about how to use their medicines.
- Provide dispensary-based patient services to inpatients and outpatients including clinical trials.
- Providing medicines management or other technical information to healthcare professionals both within and externally to the trust to ensure continuity of care.
- Supervising day to day work of pharmacy support workers and junior staff, allocating tasks when necessary to meet workload demands.
- Responsible for the contribution to service improvement, evaluation and development.
- Responsible for the safe storage and supply of medicines.
- Carrying out any other duties as may be required by the pharmacist or senior pharmacy technician in charge of the section.
- Have experience of working in a hospital pharmacy post registration.
- Communicating effectively with patients and/or carers, giving appropriate advice to and counselling patients and their representatives about how to use their medicines.
- Provide dispensary-based patient services to inpatients and outpatients including clinical trials.
- Providing medicines management or other technical information to healthcare professionals both within and externally to the trust to ensure continuity of care.
- Supervising day to day work of pharmacy support workers and junior staff, allocating tasks when necessary to meet workload demands.
- Responsible for the contribution to service improvement, evaluation and development.
- Responsible for the safe storage and supply of medicines.
- Carrying out any other duties as may be required by the pharmacist or senior pharmacy technician in charge of the section.
- - Registered pharmacy technician in UK by GPhC
- - Accurate dispensing of medicines *in hospital or community pharmacy*
- - This must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy especially medicines reconciliation and medicines history taking
- - Attention to detail and accurate in work
- - Able to use a range information technology programmes effectively
- - Registered pharmacy technician in UK by GPhC
- - Accurate dispensing of medicines *in hospital or community pharmacy*
- - This must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy especially medicines reconciliation and medicines history taking
- - Attention to detail and accurate in work
- - Able to use a range information technology programmes effectively
Job summary
We have flexible bank shifts and long-term placement opportunities available for GPhC registered pharmacy technicians at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will join a team of specialist and generalist clinical pharmacists, medicines optimisation technicians and pharmacy assistants in delivering high quality, safe and effective care to patients and service users.
This is a full-time role (37.5 hours) post for a Band 4 pharmacy technician who will play an integral part of the medicines optimisation clinical services team providing a Pharmacy service and working closely within the multi-disciplinary team.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges
Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave
Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want
Details
Date posted
22 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£14.89 to £18.66 an hour
Contract
Bank
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
M0042-25-1023
Job locations
UHS
Tremona Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO16 6YD
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Job responsibilities
Key Duties & Responsibilities
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Additional informationDisclosure 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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Professionals Limited
Address
UHS
Tremona Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO16 6YD
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Professionals Limited
Address
UHS
Tremona Road
Southampton
Hampshire
SO16 6YD
Employer's website
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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