Job overview

*MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE*

We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join our friendly pharmacy team. The right candidate should be a GPhC registered pharmacy technician who is committed, enthusiastic, hardworking and has great attention to detail. The successful applicant will be expected to participate in the existing weekend and bank holiday rotas within the pharmacy dispensary.

They will also have a chance to rotate around the different areas of hospital pharmacy and gain a wealth of experience; working in dispensary, ward based medicines management and technical services.

We are an innovative and forward thinking department and have a great history of ‘growing our own’ talented workforce. We invest in people and there are opportunities for training and further development within this role. 

At Wye Valley NHS Trust, trainee pharmacists and trainee pharmacy technicians must be within the final six months of their training programme to be considered for employment in substantive roles. This ensures that candidates have attained the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to transition effectively into a professional role within our team. Any offers of employment are subject to attaining GPhC registration within the specified time frame.

Main duties of the job

Service Delivery Responsibilities

• To work across dispensary, ward based medicines management and technical services and deputise for Senior Pharmacy Technicians or Lead Pharmacy Technicians when asked to do so.
• To become proficient in working across dispensary, ward based medicines management and technical services so that they are able to train other colleagues when working in these areas.

Dispensary Area

To work under the direction of the Dispensary Management Team, to be aware of and follow all written Standard Operating Procedures and to fulfil the following duties:

• Dispensing for inpatients, outpatients and for discharges.
• Replenishment of dispensary stocks.
• Counselling outpatients on their medication and being aware of when to refer to a Pharmacist for further advice.
• Dispensing of Controlled Drugs.
• Dispensing of stocks for wards, departments, other hospitals and local authority clinics.
• To work towards providing dispensing accuracy checks by training as an Accredited Checking Technician.
• To ensure the collection of prescription charges & money from sale of products follows Trust Standing Financial instructions.
• To support the Dispensary Management Team in carrying out and sustaining efficiency changes.
• Answering the phone in absence of the dispensary receptionist and liaising with other health professionals to solve day to day dispensary related queries.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.