Senior Pharmacy Technician - Frailty (Sheppey Community Hospital)

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work on the wards providing clinical services on the wards, delivering quality care to patients at ward level through efficient medicines optimisation.

As part of the Clinical Pharmacy Team, you will be able to be get involved with critical projects developing the service and care for our patients across interfaces including the safe transfer of care around medicines.

The Clinical Pharmacy Team will lead on medicines optimisation strategies including palliative and end of life care.

The Frailty team will utilise tool such as STOPP-START, STOP and 7 STEPs in response to the National Overprescribing Review pledge of September 2021 around polypharmacy and overprescribing

This will include the assessment of patient's own drugs, medicine reconciliation, and discharge planning, counselling patients about their medicines and coordinating the supply of discharge medication to ensure patient flow.

The post holders will work with the clinical pharmacy team to continually develop the service, while maintaining high standards and achieving best practice to meet the needs of patients and the Trust.

The role will involve being a Practice/Educational supervisor, Line management and leadership and will also involve taking responsibility for a defined area of service delivery (frailty sub-acute lone off-site working).

The role will also involve dispensary-based responsibilities including dispensing-on-ward activity and working as an accredited checking Technician.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Must be registered as Pharmacy technician with GPhC
• BTEC in Pharmaceutical science or equivalent
• NVQ 3 in pharmacy services or equivalent GPhC Registration

Values Based Question

Essential criteria

• Give an example of when you have acted as a role model

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures acquired though training, NVQ3, BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent level
• Knowledge of procedures and practices associated with working in a hospital pharmacy department
• Understand the importance around safe transfer of care around medicines and the impact of errors across the interface

Experience

Essential criteria

• Hospital based experience
• Ward based, medicines management experience
• Management and leadership experience.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrates ability to solve problems
• Has proven ability to achieve results and good communication skills
• Able to turn conflict into positive outcomes
• Good interpersonal and customer service skills and ability to negotiate

Please note that we do not accept applications via CV or recruitment agencies.

This post will close before the intended closing date should sufficient number of suitable applications be received. Therefore, if you are interested in applying for this role, we suggest that you do so at the earliest opportunity.

Applications are welcomed from applicants who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, such requests will be taken under consideration and accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

All staff no matter where they work or which age group of patients they work with must be aware of their responsibility to act when they feel a child, young person or vulnerable adult has been or is at risk of abuse.

We are a fully non-smoking Trust. Smoking is completely prohibited in all Trust buildings, grounds and car parks for patients, visitors, staff and contractors.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 896.2KB)
• Progression Programme (PDF, 182.8KB)