Pharmacy Technician Specialist Patient Safety | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 20 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2024 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6275317/361-PLN-6275317 |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Pharmacy Technician Specialist Patient Safety who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Are you an experienced Pharmacy Technician seeking a new challenge? Do you enjoy making a positive difference to patient care?
The Lister Hospital, Stevenage is looking for a high calibre pharmacy technician to join our expanding team. Being driven and adaptable are essential characteristics for this role as this is a unique opportunity to shape the future.
The role will expose you to working with lead nurses, doctors, and patient safety experts; you will develop close working relationships with Quality Improvement and Kaizen teams as well. Your input will be key to making changes to improve patient safety.
Continued professional development is actively supported in the pharmacy department and there will be opportunities to undertake training where applicable.
The successful candidate will also be supported to develop their leadership and management skills. If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please get in touch with us!
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
The Pharmacy Technician Specialist will work with the Principal Pharmacist for Patient Safety on the medicines and patient safety matters.
Coordinate, supervise, deliver and contribute to the medicine’s safety audit programme and medicines safety KPIs.
To participate in Trust and ICB medicines and patient safety walk arounds.
To deliver and contribute to the education and training strategy for Trust wide staff in relation to medicines safety.
Help co-ordinate and minute departmental and Trust wide meetings including Medication Safety Forum.
To collect data to support the investigation of medication errors and implement changes to minimise risk both within pharmacy and in the community.
To develop innovative and forward-thinking quality improvement projects to improve medicines safety and quality outcomes for our patients.
Analysis monthly incident reports for divisions, specialities, and pharmacy
To co-ordinate and develop Trust wide communication methods for medicines safety e.g. Presentations and writing the Medicines Safety Bulletin.
To line manage relevant staff.
Implement policies, propose changes to working practices and procedures.
To support the Medicines Management team with clinical work at ward level.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Monday 3 Jun 2024