Pharmacy Technician

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	09 Hydref 2025
Cyflog:	£27,485.00 i £30,162.00 bob blwyddyn
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£27485.00 - £30162.00 a year
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	23 Hydref 2025
Lleoliad:	Barnsley, S70 3RD
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	C9378-QA01409

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Job Summary To work with the senior technicians in the locality to provide a technical pharmacy service to the Inpatient and Outpatient areas across the locality including checking patients own medication on admission. Maintain competencies by undertaking both in-house and nationally recognised validations as appropriate. Maintain competencies for dispensing of medications. To ensure patient information leaflets are available on allocated units and in identified areas and keep all pharmacy information up to date. To ensure stocks of medicines are available on all allocated wards and departments through the named patient and stock top up service. Working to standard operating procedures (SOPs) provide pharmacy service to allocated units/ wards. Key Result Areas Check patients own medication on admission in line with departmental procedures. Participate in the medication supply and topping-up service at ward/team base level, to allocated units, to ensure adequate stocks are maintained for patient care. To assess their suitability of medicines, and record findings using the pharmacy prescribing system. Identify any discrepancies and liaise with the appropriate healthcare professional. Participate in patient counselling regarding medicines as appropriate. Ensure the appropriate receipt, processing, storage and stock control of medicines and other supplies. Reporting via medicines assurance process. Respond to enquiries and requests from staff, patients, and carers, in accordance with individual competence and departmental policy. Assist the technician managers, in the development and monitoring of SOPs. Assist in the distribution of information and polices to all wards, and departments as necessary. Participate in pharmacy related audits as appropriate. Participate in the supply of Clozapine to a specific group of patients ensuring compliance with the SOPs (e.g. blood tests have been taken, results obtained, valid prescriptions received, and medication dispensed and collected in a timely manner). Perform stock take both within the dispensary and at ward/ department level. Liaise with nursing staff concerning the use of medicines and to advise on the safe and secure storage of medicines at ward level. Comply with the Trust's Medicine Code. To ensure errors/mistakes are reported via the trusts incident reporting system. Use of pharmacy and other computer systems in the course of performing these duties. To answer telephone and face to face queries of a routine or technical nature from a wide range of staff groups, patients, and carers and refer appropriate queries to the relevant members of the pharmacy team. When working at Fieldhead Dispense medication, including compliance aids, for in, out, day and patients ready to receive a final accuracy check. Ensure that all information needed for accurate stock control and prescription issues and that data is recorded using both paper and computerised systems. Dispense clinical trial medication and complete all required documentation following the defined SOP. Dispense controlled drugs and ensure that all legally required records are accurate and up to date. Counsel patients attending the pharmacy department on the use of their medication, as appropriate. Assist with the training of others in the routine duties of the dispensary. General To observe the principals of Clinical Governance in general and be able to demonstrate participation in Continuing Professional Development. This will include attendance at appropriate training courses. To participate in the Trust's Appraisal system. To assist in the bank holiday provision of pharmacy services at Fieldhead and be involved in Saturday morning rota. To work in other areas of the Trust (by previous agreement) if necessary. This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties that fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager. This job description will be reviewed regularly in the light of changing service requirements and any such changes will be discussed with the post holder. The post holder is expected to comply with all relevant Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, including those relating to Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety and Confidentiality of Information. South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust operates a no smoking policy Trust Values: The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects that all staff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all time. The post holder must all time act in accordance with the Trusts Values: Honest, open, transparent Respectful Person first and in the centre Improve and be outstanding. Relevant today, ready for tomorrow Families and carers matter Safeguarding: Report any concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in accordance with Trust Policy. Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training. Trust policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy: All staff employed by the Trust must comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training required for their role and commit to: ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise concerns. maintain confidentiality, in line with the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct. understand their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any information which they create, use or process in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and Trust Data Protection policy; comply with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol. Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors. Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire training annually. receive supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed. understand their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy. recognise, respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users, carers and the public. Contribute to a working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and diversity. ensure they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding policies and participatingin relevanttraining; comply with their professional responsibilities to develop their practice and deliver care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit, Supervision); demonstrate, through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continual development of individual, team and service wide quality improvement; abide by relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation taking action when codes of conduct are breached; work flexibly to meet the needs of the service/organisation, whilst working within a culture of progressive employment practices and commitment to the Investors in People (IiP) Standards. adhere to the Trusts smoke free policies, which prohibits smoking anywhere on Trust grounds; being socially responsible by complying with measures that support the Trust in reducing or offsetting our environmental impact; Identify and report risks, hazards, incidents, accidents and near misses promptly; In addition to the Trusts own responsibilities under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance, for your safety, ALL staff (and contractors) are responsible for ensuring their work adheres to this Code in the delivery of safe patient care. This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the band as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments. For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached. We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We strongly discourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.