Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an organised and motivated individual with good communication skills to undertake a split post between the clinical pharmacy team and dispensary.

As a band 4 to band 5 progression post, once the specific criteria has been met and reviewed, the post holder will move from band 4 to 5 and become a Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician. Progress will be reviewed regularly.

This is a great time to join the pharmacy team as we look to expand our clinical pharmacy services post merger.   Your focus will be to deliver a patient-centred pharmacy service to ensure medicines reconciliation is completed within 24 hours of admission. Other key duties include simple medication counselling as well as supporting a fast and efficient discharge process utilising our satellite pharmacies.

We are a digitally advanced trust with electronic prescribing already in place, and have installed a bespoke dashboard allowing pharmacists and technicians to prioritise their workload. This allows us to focus our efforts on patient facing activities such as medication counselling.

This opportunity presents the successful candidates with a chance to build on  experience they may already have. We are fully committed to your training and development to enable you to maximise your potential contribution to patient care.

Newly qualified Pharmacy Technicians and Student Technicians due to qualify are also encouraged to apply.

Main duties of the job

• To provide routine technical pharmacy support in a professional manner which supports a high quality, patient orientated service.
• Support the clinical pharmacy team in delivering medicines reconciliation and supporting the discharge process at ward level.
• To provide straightforward pharmaceutical advice to patients / carers / ward staff.
• To undertake day-to-day supervision and support of Pharmacy Assistants         and Pre-registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians within the team.
• To undertake checking Pharmacy Technician accreditation (ACPT) and perform ACPT duties. 
• To act as a professional role model for pre-registration trainee Pharmacy Technicians and pharmacy assistants, actively demonstrating integrity, ownership and leadership in all aspects of the role.
• To work closely with other healthcare professionals at ward level.

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton.  Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

 

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.