Rotational Pharmacy Technician
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Job overview
Are you a newly qualified or skilled and experienced Pharmacy technician, ready to take the next step in your career? If your answer is yes, we invite you to join our dynamic, innovative and person-centred team delivering outstanding pharmacy services.
This is a rotational role giving you a wealth of opportunity to gain experience whilst working across inpatient clinical and technical services services. You will work in a supportive environment where you will receive training and gain the skills required to support you in your career development.
Previous experience of working as a pharmacy technician in a hospital or community pharmacy setting is preferred, but not essential. We welcome applications from newly qualified pharmacy technicians or from those who are due to qualify and join the GPhC register as a pharmacy technician shortly.
At the heart of everything we do are our CARES values (continuous improvement, accountability, respect, enthusiasm, support). If you share these and you are ready to make a genuine impact, we’d love to hear from you.
Why choose us?- Professional growth; supporting continuous learning and career development through our education and training department.
- Our supportive environment: The friendly and multiskilled team are here ready to support you on your journey.
- As a department we are embracing the Trust’s ambition to digitally transform our services and have introduced new initiatives to support this.
Main duties of the job
Please refer to the job description and person specification.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North-West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so
Whalley, Hollins Park and Rathbone site, Non-Secure Services located in Broadoak, Clock View, Hartley Hospital, Knowsley and Peasley, Hollins Park, Windsor House, Fern ward, Heys Court, Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Hope Centre and Longmoor intermediate care reablement unit.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- This role will also include relevant training which is required for you to develop within the role, if needed, you will undertake training provided to equip you with the skills to carry out final accuracy checking of dispensed prescriptions.
- Comprehensive in-house medicines reconciliation training, following successful training and demonstration of agreed medicines optimisation competencies, you will complete accurate drug histories and medicines reconciliation of patients’ medication and assess medicines for usability at ward level.
- You will participate in the provision of a seven-day pharmacy service, this includes a rota for weekends/bank holidays
Please refer to JD and person specification for more details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- NVQ Level 3 in pharmaceutical science andBTECLevel 3 in Pharmaceutical Science, or equivalent qualification with underpinning knowledge
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician
- Willingness to work towards an accredited technical accuracy checking qualification
- Relevant medicines management qualification, or willingness to work towards or equivalent experience
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services.
- Experience of dispensing medication.
- Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD.
- Knowledge or experience of working in hospital pharmacy within the NHS
- Experience of accuracy checking medication
Values
Essential criteria- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to multitask and change from one job to another frequently, working both independently and as part of a team
- Ability to work flexibly
- Attention to detail
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative
- Excellent communication skills: - Written - Verbal - listening
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Customer care skills.
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Evidence of computer literacy, involving working knowledge of word processing and Excel, and able to work with several clinical information systems
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands.
- Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary.
- Professional manner
- Ability to travel between different sites.
- To receive & manage telephone calls
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.