Rotational Pharmacy Technician; Band 4

Job Overview

We have an exciting and unique opportunity for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hard-working and adaptable Pharmacy Technician to work at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. This is a rotational role, and the successful applicant will have the opportunity to work across the full range of pharmacy departments, including the dispensary, inpatient wards, aseptics, medicines information and others.

The successful candidate will need to be registered with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician, and will have excellent interpersonal skills, be good at managing their time, be flexible in their approach to work and be an excellent team player. Applicants will need to have excellent dispensing and communication skills to join our friendly, supportive and welcoming pharmacy team. The post holder will also be expected to take part in the weekend and bank holiday rotas to ensure an effective service provision.

We will support the successful candidate with their introduction into this role, and with their future professional development.

• Full dispensary activities, including dispensing and accuracy checking medicines supply for inpatients, prescriptions for outpatients and medicines on discharge.
• Ward medicines management activities including assessment of patients own drugs, completion of drug history and medicines reconciliation activities, ensuring full supply of medicines for an inpatient stay and on discharge.
• Aseptic preparation of a wide range of products following validated standard operating procedures.
• Rotation through pharmacy procurement, homecare, medicines information as required.
• Supervision and training of a range of junior staff including students, senior assistant technical officers and assistant technical officers.

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.

Please see the attached the full job description and person specification for further details relating to this vacancy. This position is not currently eligible for a certificate of sponsorship in line with Home Office guidance as it does not appear on the skilled worker visa occupation list. If you currently hold a different type of visa allowing you to work in the UK we would welcome an application from you.

If your visa expires or there is a change in status during your employment, the Trust will be required to review your employment.

• BTEC in pharmaceutical science, NVQ level 3 or equivalent
• Registered with GPHC
• Hold an accredited checking qualification

• Knowledge of current NHS guidance/initiatives affecting hospital pharmacy.
• Understands Health & Safety in the workplace.
• Good manufacturing practice knowledge.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Computer literate and experience of using Pharmacy systems.

• Previous dispensing experience.
• Aseptic manipulations and Good manufacturing practice experience.
• Handling difficult customers.
• Hospital Pharmacy experience.
• Ward Based Pharmacy experience.

• Ability to contribute to seven day working agenda.
• Portfolio of CPD.