Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 153-SP04415-A
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals Dorset - All Sites
- Town
- Dorset
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacy Technician: Quality and Safety
Band 5
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support the preparation of their application. While this is not discouraged, we kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of your own experience and suitability. Personal integrity is an important part of the recruitment process.
Job overview
Are you searching for the next step in your pharmacy career? Are you highly motivated and passionate about patient and medication safety?
We’re looking for an experienced registered pharmacy technician with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our Pharmacy Quality and Safety Team.
You’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership and management skills with incident review training, trend monitoring, project improvements and more. This role further expands to work within Aseptic services, providing a variety of experience. Your success is our success and we’ll support you in all your training and development endeavours.
Working alongside the multidisciplinary teams, you’ll help ensure continuous process review and patient safety improvement.
You will be required to work on the late night, weekend and bank holiday rotas. You will also be required to work flexibly.
For a more detailed overview of the role and person specification please see the supporting documents.
Main duties of the job
Your responsibilities will be to:
- To provide a comprehensive pharmacy service complying with the relevant legislation, good practice and following standard operating procedures.
- To assist the Pharmacy Quality and Safety Team in promoting medication safety and governance Trust Wide.
- Support pharmacy and nursing staff in analysing, reporting on, reflecting, and learning from medication incidents.
- Assist in the day-to-day organisation of the service provided by the pharmacy aseptic preparation unit (APU) for the trusts, involving delivery of chemotherapy, and CIVAs products for both adult and paediatric patients.
- Deputise for the Deputy Lead Pharmacy Technician: Aseptic Services and Lead Pharmacy Technician: Quality and Safety.
- Assist in the training and development of others and performance management required to deliver a consistent and high standard of service to patients.
- Be a champion and advocate for medication safety, supporting both Pharmacy and the wider Trust.
As a Trust we can offer you a wide range of benefits including:
- Excellent Education and Training
- Development opportunities
- Physiotherapy and Occupational Health Support
- Salary sacrifice scheme
- Unsocial Hours Payment
This role requires General Pharmaceutical Council Registration.
Base Location: Poole Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Reporting and reviewing medication incidents (LERNs) and sharing learning outcomes to reduce the risk of recurrence.
- Undertaking audits in clinical areas.
- Assisting with pharmacy staff Quality & Safety and Aseptic Training.
- Contributing to team meetings to improve medicines safety and governance.
- Suggesting changes to pharmacy practice and contribute to wider policies.
- To have specialised knowledge of Pharmacy operations within Cancer Services.
- Supervise and ensure that all areas of the aseptic unit are of an appropriate standard of cleanliness.
- To be a qualified designated aseptic checking Technician. To provide the final technical check for prepared cytotoxics/CIVAs products. This includes checking of ingredients, worksheet, label, drug volumes and product integrity. This is an unsupervised role taking responsibility for accuracy of final product provided.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Pharmaceutical Science and BTEC in Pharmacy Services
- Registration to The General Pharmaceutical Council
- Accredited Checking Technician
Desirable criteria
- Root cause analysis training
- Accredited Medicines Management Technician
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working in primary or secondary care
- Extensive and broad experience as an NHS hospital pharmacy technician
- Good experience in delivering education and training to a variety of staff
- Good experience of undertaking audits, data collection and implementing change
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering medicines safety improvements
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
- Neat, accurate, numerate
- Basic I.T. skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience using EPMA
- Knowledge of WellSky software
- Familiar with using Datix and extracting reports
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Amy Cornish
- Job title
- Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 5718
- Additional information
0300 019 5718 (Bournemouth hospital, Mondays and Tuesdays)
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