Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and proactive pharmacy technician to join the Cancer Pharmacy Team as a Band Cancer Pharmacy Technician, at the Churchill Hospital and able to cover across sites.
The successful candidate will be highly motivated with excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills 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, pharmacist and admin.
The candidate ideally will have either a hospital pharmacy background, or with community pharmacy experience, wishing to make a change into the hospital environment, for which appropriate training will be provided. You must have successfully achieved the relevant units of pharmacy services skills, ideally NVQ level (QCF) or an equivalent GPhC accredited training programme.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for providing co-ordinating support to the Cancer Satellite service under the direction of the senior Satellite Lead pharmacy technician or operational manager. Including taking the lead for the Satellite service when required. To assist in ensuring dispensary work is processed accurately, safely and efficiently according to procedures to support turnaround and key performance indicators. To be responsible for preparing some Satellite rotas, overseeing workload and delegating tasks to the dispensary team, with the ability to judge workload and when to escalate to prevent it reaching unmanageable levels, working together with Senior Technicians.
Some of the key roles include:
1. Co-ordination of workload and staff in the Cancer Satellite Pharmacy
2. Training of staff
3. Management of stock
4. Patient counselling
5. Opportunity to develop CPD
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .