Senior Clinical Pharmacy Medicines Management Technician, Paediatrics
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it.Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’.Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS.We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced pharmacy technician to join the Paediatric pharmacy team at the Royal Brompton Hospital as a Clinical Pharmacy Technician
We are looking for a highly motivated, dedicated, innovative and enthusiastic pharmacy technician with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, to work with the paediatric pharmacy team and wider multidisciplinary team to provide medicines optimisation services to children within our centre.
As well as providing ward and clinic based medicines optimisation services, you will be responsible for innovating and implementing service development initiatives, and contribute to the development of the Clinical Pharmacy Technician role within paediatrics.
You must be a qualified Pharmacy Technician, registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council with proven relevant experience in hospital pharmacy. You must be accredited in Medicines Optimisation for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent and experience in ward-based Medicines Optimisation is essential.
Main duties of the job
To lead and manage the ward-based Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician (MOPT’s) service including responsibility for innovating and implementing service development initiatives, personal development and performance reviews of managed staff at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
To lead the development and provision of ward and clinic-based medicines optimisation services including, but not limited to: management of ward stock, medicines reconciliation, reuse of patients’ own medicines, medicines supply, patient self-administration of medicine (SAM) schemes, patient education on medicines and the transfer of care around medicines.
To contribute to medicines optimisation training and education activities both within Pharmacy and to the wider multidisciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about this role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
Essential criteria- BTEC or NVQ3 in Phamaceutical Science
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Accredited Checking Technician Qualification
- Accreditation in Medicines Optimisation of Management for Pharmacy Technician (AIMM) or equivalent
- Educational supervisor qualification or equivalent.
- Working towards the clinical pharmacy technician level 4 (BTEC Level 4) Diploma
Experience
Essential criteria- Extensive hospital experience as a qualified Pharmacy technician
- Experience in training staff
- Experience of delivery of medicines optimisation services at ward level
- Experience in patient education
- Experience of delivering oral presentations to groups of healthcare professionals
- Experience of working with pharmaceutical homecare services
- Experience of pharmaceutical procurement
Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to prioritise
- Ability to implement change
- Good communication skills
- Able to demonstrate leadership skills
- Good team player
- Ability to work quickly, accurately and in an organised manner
- Ability to use initiative
- Good numeracy skills
- Good mentorship skills
- Experience of using EPIC
- Experience of Managing change
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service.We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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