26 Oct
University Hospitals Bristol Nhs Foundation Trust
Bristol
Band 5
Main area: Diagnostic & Therapies
Grade: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekends, Bank holidays & late shifts)
Job ref: 387-DT-5198-LH
Site: Bristol Royal Infirmary
Town: Bristol
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 28/10/2024 23:59
Interview date: 04/11/2024
As an organisation, we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.
As a member of the Pharmacy technician team,
you will provide safe and effective pharmacy support to the dispensary and adult wards within UHBW. You will develop your existing professional, technical, and clinical skills through your own continuing professional development to provide a service of excellence to both patients and staff alike. This role includes a 1-day-a-week commitment to dispensing and checking of medicines within the dispensary and 4 days a week embedded in one of the ward-based adult clinical teams: Medicine.
Please note that the vacancy might close early if a sufficient number of candidates apply.
Main duties of the job
1. To dispense prescriptions for inpatients, outpatients, day patients, and patients waiting for discharge. This involves:
- Receiving a prescription and checking that it is clear and legible with the correct patient details and ward and ensuring that a clinical check has been completed where appropriate.
- Contacting the ward pharmacists, prescriber, or ward to clarify any queries or missing details.
- Logging the prescription accurately onto the pharmacy computer system.
- Accurately producing a label for each item of medication.
- Dispensing broken bulk and original pack items, checking the prescription and label for accuracy.
- Ensuring each item has a Patient Information Leaflet.
- To dispense controlled drugs to wards and patients, ensuring that balances are calculated and checked daily and that safety mechanisms are in place and adhered to. Ensure that adequate stock levels are maintained. Follow Policies and Procedures regarding the safe storage and handling of controlled drugs.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country,
bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall, and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston, and beyond.
As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston; join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds: city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside,
both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce, we aim to recruit and retain a workforce that represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Knowledge
- Proven recent experience of delivering dispensary services as a technician
- Previous experience of working within a clinical patient-facing environment
- Proven ability to dispense medicines accurately without errors
- Proven recent hospital experience of delivering dispensing service as a technician
- Previous participation in audit or quality improvement work
- Supportive
- Respectful
Skills and abilities
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Articulate and confident
- Flexible and adaptive approach
- Ability to work alone or in a team
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good time manager
- Evidence of ability to complete work on time
- Skilled at using the internet and online information systems
- Evidence of self-motivation
- Committed to providing a high-quality pharmacy service.
Qualifications
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a pharmacy technician
- Accredited accuracy checking technician
- Minimum of 12 months post-registration experience as a medicines optimisation pharmacy technician
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Accredited for assessing or coaching
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
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▶️ Specialist Acute Medicine Pharmacy Technician
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