Senior Pharmacy Technician - Procurement

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

With over 13,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity to enter the world of Pharmacy Procurement and its many careers options.

The post holder will assist in the management of the pharmacy procurement services for Derby and Burton.

Co-ordination of the service ensuring suppliers are contacted regularly regarding supply chain problems and shortages, and the information is shared with the pharmacy teams

Support the Chief Pharmacy Technician in the day to day management of the pharmacy procurement service.

Ensure adequate staffing levels and skill mix are maintained and to escalate to the Chief Technicians if any short falls are identified.

Oversee the maintenance of weekly shortage reports detailing up to date information on product availability is communicated to the UHDB pharmacy teams.

Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians (PTPTs) due to register as a Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC by May 2025 are eligible to apply for this post

Main duties of the job

Responsible for items owing to other pharmacy areas are reviewed, ordering stock when necessary or arranging alternative products, this will include checking outstanding orders from suppliers with the assistance from the Procurement Administrator.

Assist the Chief Technicians with the recruitment, return to work, annual leave allocation and annual appraisal of delegated staff ensuring records are accurately maintained

Supports effective stock control through the appropriate procurement within Pharmacy.

Support in the management of reviewing drug alerts from the MHRA, pharmaceutical industry and other agencies.

Assist in the maintenance and development of unlicensed policy and procedures, assisting in the creation of specification sheets for unlicensed medicines.

Pharmacy Procurement is an essential part of the Pharmacy Service ensuring medicines are always available for our patients at UHDB.

This post offers a Pharmacy Technician with ambition and drive an exciting opportunity to enter the world of pharmacy procurement that can provide many career options.

The pharmacy procurement team are friendly and welcoming, and work hard to ensure medicines are always available at both sites, they are very successful at finding alternative solutions when products are in short supply. By joining the team you will be providing additional support and opportunities to develop and enhance the service.

Interview date: 19th February 2025

Working for our organisation

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car scheme

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4^th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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Person specification

Education & Training

• Registered Pharmacy Technician (GPhC)
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

• Management qualification

Experience & Knowledge

• Current knowledge of hospital pharmacy practice
• Working knowledge of NHS Trust and departmental section procedures and priorities
• Experience of training staff
• Detailed pharmacy technical knowledge including Law & Ethics pharmacy practic

• Awareness of opportunities for extended roles for pharmacy technicians and support staff
• Experience of unlicensed medicines policies and procedures

Skills & Ability

• Able to produce accurate written work to a high standard.
• Able to work under pressure, organise own work and meet deadlines.
• Able to identify and solve problems
• Able to demonstrate that they can work on their own initiative but know limitations of own authority and knowledge

• Can plan, organise and deliver training sessions one to one and small or large groups.
• Able to plan and prioritise tasks in accordance with departmental and individual needs

Communications and interpersonal skills

• Able to communicate clearly verbally and electronically with the Pharmacy team.  .
• Demonstrate that they are approachable and a team player
• Demonstrate that they can give feedback negative/positive in an appropriate way

• Adapt verbal communication to a learners / team individual need
• Give feedback in difficult situations.
• Communicate in a coaching style.

Values & behaviours

• Has a positive approach and is able to involve and motivate others
• Able to demonstrate that they are approachable and a team player.
• Act as a role model for pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support staff
• Has a flexible approach

• Able to build a rapport with people
• Innovative and forward thinking

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.

For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.

Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.

We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.

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