Pharmacy Technician (Inpatient wards and Dispensary)
Job overview
Interview will be held on 6th Feb 2025
If you are a qualified Pharmacy Technician looking for a new rewarding and challenging role, come and join our CQC rated ‘Outstanding’ Trust. We currently have an opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our team. You will deliver a high quality, safe and effective pharmacy service to our community health and mental health services across our sites in Berkshire both from the dispensary and on our in-patient wards.
We are a small friendly team, based at Prospect Park Hospital in Reading where our dispensary is located. You will have the opportunity to work at our community hospitals across Berkshire including Slough, Newbury, Wokingham, Maidenhead and Reading, as well as on the mental health wards at Prospect Park hospital.
Our working hours are currently 9.00 – 17.00 Monday to Friday with you also working a late shift in the dispensary on a rota basis, which means no nights or weekends. We offer free parking on site.
Main duties of the job- Delivering a fast and effective pharmacy services to the wards and departments
- Completing accuracy checking session(s)
- Providing an admission, supply and discharge service to nominated wards.
- Checking Patients’ Own Drugs (PODs).
- Undertaking medicines reconciliation.
- Discharge planning and supporting patients to ensure that they get the best possible outcomes from their medicines.
- Providing a ward top-up service.
- Working with the clozapine clinic team to ensure medicines are ready for the Trust wide clinics.
- Developing skills and knowledge as part of a commitment to CPD and Clinical Supervision
- Providing support to Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians and support workers while they undertake their learning.
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The “must haves” for this role:
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician.
- Good communication skills
- An ability to be flexible and work creatively in accordance with service needs.
- A strong patient focus and a real team player.
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award.Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Sara Jackson or Josanne Jospeh on 01189605080 or email [email protected] or [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria- Pharmacy Technician registered with the GPhC
- Nationally recognised ward-based qualification to include POD checking, Supply and Medicines Reconciliation, or commitment to work towards this.
- Nationally recognised Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician qualification or commitment to work towards this
- BTEC Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians (Integrated Apprenticeship award with evidence of working in a ward-based environment and carrying out the final accuracy check of dispensed products
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria- Commitment to undertake appropriate pharmacy accreditations as part of career progression
- Commitment to undertake in-house Pharmacy Training Programme
Previous Experience
Desirable criteria- Current ward-based pharmacy technician experience including POD checking, supply, and medicines reconciliation
- Current accuracy checking skills
- Experience of hospital pharmacy
- Experience of mental health pharmacy
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria- Good communication skills (written and verbal)
- Good IT skills including the use of standard office programmes, the internet, Trust software and all pharmacy computer systems
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria- Ability and willingness to travel between Trust locations within Berkshire in a timely manner when public transport may not be available
These are the values that we live by at Berkshire Healthcare:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Please find attached the behaviour framework that underpins these values for this job role.
At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.
Watch our careers video to learn more.
We welcome talent from all backgrounds and offer guaranteed interviews to disabled applicants and armed forces community members who meet the minimum criteria.
Please note we may close positions before the advertised date.
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