Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and proactive pharmacy technician to join the Cancer Pharmacy Team as a Band 5 Cancer Pharmacy Technician at the Churchill Hospital and cover across sites. The successful candidate will have excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills and be interested in developing leadership skills to support the Senior Pharmacy Technician.
The Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team covering the Churchill and Horton Hospitals and includes pharmacy assistants, technicians, pharmacists and admin.
Qualifications
The candidate will ideally have either a hospital pharmacy background or community pharmacy experience and wish to transition into the hospital environment; appropriate training will be provided. Must have successfully achieved the relevant units of pharmacy services skills, ideally NVQ level 3 (QCF) or an equivalent GPhC accredited training programme.
Responsibilities
* Delivery of medicine management service to adult cancer in‑patients, out‑patients, and day‑case patients
* Pharmacy service to Day Treatment Units in Headington and Banbury
* Patient counselling
* Participation in the dispensing process for labelling, dispensing and checking (if qualified)
* Responding to enquiries and requests from staff, patients and carers, ensuring appropriate and accurate information is readily available and escalating questions to other members of the pharmacy team where appropriate
* Opportunity to develop CPD
* Opportunity to attend the Annual British Oncology Pharmacy Association Conference on a rotational basis
About the Trust
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and serving as a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Values
Delivering Compassionate Excellence with a focus on compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
Contact
For further details or an informal visit, please contact Rebecca Coyle, Senior Cancer Pharmacy Technician, at Rebecca.Coyle@ouh.nhs.uk.
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