Senior Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Management | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum (pro rata for part time) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2024 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG3 3AA |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6248531/186-599-24-GH |
Summary
This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust and have not been an employee of the Trust in the previous 3 years. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.
An opportunity has arisen for a registered Pharmacy Technician to join our ward based teams.
Working closely with our clinical pharmacists and other healthcare professionals the successful candidate will help provide a quality pharmacy service to wards and departments across the Trust.
Main duties will include medicines reconciliation, assessing the suitability of patients’ own drugs, ordering named patient medication and supporting audit and quality improvement initiatives. There will be regular dispensary slots which include final accuracy checking plus the supervision and training of new and pre-registration staff.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
The successful candidate will be required to work across the organisation but being based at Highbury Hospital, Lings Bar Hospital, Blossomwood (formerly Millbrook Mental Health Unit) or Sherwood Oaks to be discussed at interview. Specialities covered will include AMH, MHSOP, CAMHS and physical healthcare. A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is therefore required; however reasonable adjustments will be made for individuals as necessary in line with the Equality Act 2010.
You should have post qualification experience of working in a hospital pharmacy. Experience in a mental health setting is desirable but not essential as full training and support will be given.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 May 2024
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