Senior Technician Pharmacy Assurance

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To monitor departmental change requests and action logs, supporting the Operational Team and ensuring compliance is met.
• To support the automated medicines cabinets (Omnicells) team in the management and compliance of the automated drug cabinets to ensure that medicines management and legislation is complied with.
• To support the implementation of new pharmacy processes, ensuring appropriate change control is utilised and regulated to deliver the Pharmacy Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
• To support the pharmacy Governance & Safety Team with Datix investigations and provide the SLT with assurance of relevant preventative or corrective actions.
• To support the management of the Pharmacy electronic quality management software system.
• To support the pharmacy Operations & Technical Lead in the review and validation of the pharmacy Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Major Incident Plan (MIP).
• As part of the Assurance Calendar, create and manage a validation schedule, ensuring annual system or process challenges are carried out.
• To support the pharmacy Governance & Safety and Operational Teams to ensure pharmacy staff are working to safe standards, meeting legislation for medicine requirements and the safe custody of medicines.
• To support the Ward Services Operational Manager to ensure regular audits of medicines management technical services are undertaken, supporting actions for ward manager or modern matrons to achieve compliance.
• Responsible for the review and auditing of all relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) and Clinical Operating Procedures (COP's) for the operational delivery in the dispensaries, and stores areas on both sites (UHCW & Rugby St Cross).
• Responsible for ensuring all mandatory inspections and audits relating to the Wholesaler Dealer License and Quality systems for the clinical areas are completed, documented and reported back to the RP.
• To work with the pharmacy IT/EPR team, ensuring regular system challenges form part of the Assurance calendar and contingency plans are fit for purpose.
• To work with the Dispensary and Stores Operational Manager and Procurement Manager to ensure the goods receipt area is regularly inspected for WDL compliance along with annual supplier qualification criteria.

For further details please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• see supporting documents

Desirable criteria

• see supporting documents

Experience

Essential criteria

• see supporting documents

Desirable criteria

• see supporting documents

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• see supporting documents

Skills

Essential criteria

• see supporting documents

To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Senior Technician Pharmacy Assurance (PDF, 560.3KB)
• Welcoming Applicants with Disability (PDF, 98.9KB)
• Candidate Information (PDF, 291.8KB)