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We have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our Pharmacy Team.
You will have an enthusiastic approach to multidisciplinary team working and a passion for frontline patient-centred care. With compassion and commitment, you will optimise the use of medicines in response to the individual needs of the patients and the unit.
Activities will include reconciling medicines, assessment of Patients own drugs, maintaining appropriate levels of stock control, ensuring cost effective use of medicines, timely and accurately labelling and dispensing medicines, providing advice in relation to safe and secure handling of medicines to patients and colleagues, counselling and educating patients/carers on their medicines, medicines administration and completing medicines related audits.
The successful candidate will be registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC. You should be friendly with excellent time management and prioritisation skills. You should be able to problem-solve and take responsibility for organising your daily workload in liaison with the Unit Manager.
Typical working week will be based on the unit Monday Friday, 0800 1600 excluding bank holidays and weekend.
We welcome newly qualified or less experienced pharmacy technicians to apply for the post. If we were to appoint a registered technician who did not meet the criteria for band 5 they candidate would be appointed as a band 4 with the opportunity to progress to a band 5.
To ensure safe, appropriate, efficient and cost-effective use of medicines
To facilitate an integrated provision of pharmaceutical care including ordering, transport, preparation, administration, storage and disposal of medicines
To ensure effective medicine stock control and storage on the unit by carrying out regular audits and providing advice to the unit and team on safe, secure and appropriate storage of medicines in line with the Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines Procedures
To ensure effective management of the pharmacy ordering system and stock control.
To label, dispense and check non-stock medicines, medicines used for Self-administration and medicines for leave or discharge in line with the Trust process and procedures.
To provide advice, education and counselling to patients/carers with regards to their medicines.
Providing information and advice to patient/carers and colleagues in regard to safe and secure handling of medication
To assist with discharge planning and ensure post discharge plans are in place.
Accurately completing medicines reconciliation for patients following transfer of care.
To ensure pharmaceutical waste is handled safely and appropriately. Assisting with or arranging destruction, storage and collection)
Administer medication
After training and gaining competency, undertake tasks such physical health monitoring and phlebotomy.
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support youll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
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For further information for this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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