Lead Specialist Pharmacy Technician SH (specific HIV patient cohort)

Job overview

Lead Pharmacy Technicians work alongside the Principal Pharmacy Technician and the Lead Pharmacists to ensure delivery of high quality pharmaceutical services to patients within the community hospitals to promote the safe, effective and efficient use of medicines within the organisation through the implementation of the medicines optimisation strategy.

Main duties of the job

Lead Pharmacy Technicians play a key leadership role within the team and

contribute to its success by being a role model; supervising more junior members of the team (qualified and unqualified) and students to ensure they are working to the professional standards required. They will ensure that training and competence are maintained.

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

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The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Person specification

Qualifications

• NVQ in Pharmacy Services Level 3 with BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science as underpinning knowledge or BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent.
• General Pharmaceutical Council Registration as a Pharmacy Technician

• Member of HIV Pharmacy Association (HIVPA)
• Practice supervisor’s qualification or equivalent

Experience

• Significant post-qualification experience in a Hospital or other clinical setting.
• Experience of line management of staff
• Able to maintain own Continuing Professional Development, with an on-going portfolio of competence-based evidence.
• Significant Clinical experience working in the HIV and sexual Health Specialty Dispensing experience.

• Experience in training other pharmacy staff.
• Experience in training other healthcare professionals.

Knowledge

• Able to maintain confidentiality and communicate sensitive information to appropriate persons in accordance with Data Protection Act
• Experience in training other healthcare professionals.
• .Experience in training other pharmacy staff.

skills and abilities

• Understanding of training needs in relation to post. ,Strong influencing and negotiating skills.
• Able to problem solve by obtaining relevant information and making decisions based on the information.
• Ability to manage time effectively, priorities and work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively with a variety of people at all organisational levels across different sectors including areas of social deprivation.
• Ability to communicate complex, sensitive information to individuals and groups.
• The skill to train other pharmacy staff and healthcare professionals in specific tasks.
• The skill to write Policies and SOPs and Excellent inter-personal skills.
• Computer literate in the Word, Excel, Power Point, e-mail and internet systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

pweronal attributes

• Ability to work independently primarily and to formulate own working schedules and strategies, but also to work as part of a widespread multi-disciplinary team to maintain and develop service.
• Flexible and adaptable.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Able to travel between sites across the whole Trust in a timely way.
• High attention to detail.
• Ability to motivate and organise others to ensure best practice.

ability to manage

• Able to support the implementation of local and national agenda for health under the guidance of the senior Practitioner
• Ability to manage and lead change.
• Excellent time management skills are a necessity together with the ability to prioritise work, work flexibly and re-assess work schedules on an on-going basis.
• Ability to prioritise care delivery in a professional manner, considering Trust policies and procedures.

• Experience of line management of staff
• Monitoring budget expenditure and identifying medicines value efficiencies and cost avoidance
• Experience of managing projects