Job overview
Assist the Procurement and Distribution (P&D) Team Leader in the following:
1. Safe, high quality patient centred Procurement and Distribution services (P&D). This includes all aspects of medicine storage, including medical gases, aligned with the guidance document “Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Distributors” and the Trust’s Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (for medicines for human use) aka WDA(H).
2. The planning, development, monitoring, audit, evaluation and delivery of the P&D services across the Trust.
3. Ensuring that working practices meet requirements of medicines legislation as well as professional, local and national guidelines.
4. Implementing necessary changes, thereby ensuring the delivery of a comprehensive, high quality service.
5. Provide professional leadership and management of all aspects of P&D services for all staff members who work within the area. This includes pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pre-registration staff, trainee pharmacists and support workers.
6. Management of regional and national contracts and ensuring departmental compliance.
7. Ensuring that appropriate training is provided and documented for all staff working in the area.
8. Promote excellence within the P&D department and model behaviours of continuous learning and improvement to others.
9. Represent BHT at regional and national levels and participate in the wider strategic agenda for pharmacy technicians
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the comprehensive Job Description and Personal Specification for a full list of the main responsibilities and duties.
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
10. Registered Pharmacy Technician with General Pharmaceutical Council
11. First line management training or a management Qualification.
12. Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician
Desirable criteria
13. Pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician assessor course/ Workplace Training supervisor
14. CIPS qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
15. Hospital Pharmacy Experience
16. Experience in delivering a Procurement and Distribution service
17. Experience of line managing and following HR policies
18. Experience of day to day supervision and training
Desirable criteria
19. Experience in change management
Skills, abilities and knowledge
Essential criteria
20. The ability to prioritise and manage own workload and that of the team.
21. Able to write and implement procedures.
22. Able to negotiate and work through difficult situations.
23. IT literate.
24. Good personal organisational skills and the ability to organise others.
25. Able to work as a team-leader.
26. Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
27. Able to use own initiative and work alone.
28. Ability to achieve targets
29. Able to recognise limits of competency and seek advice from colleagues
30. Able to identify areas where change is needed, embrace new ideas and with the support of senior colleagues implement change
31. To have experience in recruitment and retention of staff
32. Maintain professional competency & evidence of CPD
Special circumstance
Essential criteria
33. Able to travel all sites within Trust and to venues for training
34. Weekend and Bank holiday working as per rota
35. Late duties as per rota
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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