Pharmacy Technician | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME16 9QQ |
| Company: | Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6198237/359-6198237-T1 |
Summary
Our core working hours are 8.30 to 5.30 pm Monday to Friday plus our weekend service 9am to 4pm on Saturdays and 10am to 4pm on Sundays. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in the department’s 1 in 6 weekend working rota.
You will be a professionally qualified Pharmacy Technician holding either the BTEC or NVQ3 in Pharmaceutical Services; and registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
We have an exciting and rare opportunity to join our High Cost Drug and Homecare Pharmacy team.
You will be part of our small, but important and essential pharmacy team. We provide a high standard of service to the Trust, caring for our patients who receive medication via homecare services, and those who receive high cost drugs as in-patients.
Are you a qualified Pharmacy Technician? A fan of spreadsheets and databases?
Are you looking for a new challenge and to develop your skills and experience?
If so, this is the job for you: working in our high cost drug and homecare team, dealing with prescriptions and homecare companies.
For further information please contact Kris Jones – Chief Pharmacy Technician High Cost Drugs, or Alice Donaghy, Pharmacist.
You should enjoy working flexibly in a team, but must also be capable of working independently and working to strict deadlines. You must also be accurate, numerate, highly organised, and possess good communication skills.
Your main role will be to maintain the smooth running of our increasing number of patients receiving high cost drugs at home, via 3rdparty homecare companies. You will liaise with medical and nursing teams across many specialties, to co-ordinate repeat prescriptions. You will also answer queries from homecare companies regarding queries on these prescriptions when they arise. You will also assist the clinical teams switch high cost drugs to biosimilar and generic equivalents.
Another part of the role will be helping to manage Immunoglobin usage within the Trust and across the Kent and Medway region. This includes liaising with multidisciplinary teams to ensure that national and Trust immunoglobulin databases are maintained, and that the relevant national and internal forms are completed correctly.
Computer experience would be an advantage, though not essential, with regards to Excel and Word. Training will be provided in these areas as well as the use of our Pharmacy computer dispensing system JAC/Wellsky. There will also be a level of weekly dispensary commitment where you could work towards your checking qualification, if you do not already possess this. Opportunities may alternatively be available for ward medicines management duties, if you prefer a more clinical option.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.
We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check atEnhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children).
At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.
Interview Date: To be confirmed.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Apr 2024
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