Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7.5 hours each day Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 846-6234034-TS
- Employer
- Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trinity House|110 – 120 Upper Pemberton Eureka Business Park
- Town
- Ashford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/05/2024
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician Team Manager Medicines Quality and Governance
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, highly motivated and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our Medicines Quality and Governance team.
You will have a strong interest in Medicines Quality and Governance background. The ideal candidate should understand regulatory compliance, controlled drugs, medicines incidents, pharmacy contracts, working with pharmaceutical industry and medicines polices. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential for effective collaboration with various healthcare professionals and stakeholders. The ability to work as a team player is crucial.
In addition, you will also play an important role supporting robust oversight in the governance of prescribers (medical and non-medical)
Main duties of the job
As Pharmacy Technician - you will play a key role in delivering the specialist technical aspects of the Medicines Governance agenda across the Trust ensuring the team provides a safe, effective and efficient use of medicines.
You will support the Pharmacy non-medical prescriber lead in the governance of all prescribers ensuring compliance with legal and professional frameworks that govern prescribing by KCHFT.
As the Pharmacy Technician team manager, you will manage and lead the pharmacy technician specialist and pharmacy support workers higher level that provide medicines quality and governance.
Additional Working Pattern: 7.5 hours each day Monday to Friday
Working for our organisation
One of the largest community NHS trusts in the UK, KCHFT are rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC. We’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of care to patients and deliver excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values Compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent
We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, which leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. So, all our colleagues have equal access to career opportunities.
Flexibility is another way we do this. In the NHS, we’re reminded every day how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement without having to sacrifice time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
Looking for professional development? We can support that too! Our career pathways will help you achieve your aspirations
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.
We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.
If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know so they can help you with this.
All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate. Interviews are due to take place on the 17th May 2024.
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Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity
Although vaccination against COVID-19 is not mandatory, we are strongly encouraging colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- NVQ in Pharmacy Services Level 3 with BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science as underpinning knowledge or BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Leadership Qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Delivering Medicines and Governance agenda both clinical and financial
Desirable criteria
- Experience in performing audits and quality improvement project
Knowlwdge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of medicines legislation and understanding the concepts of Clinical Governance
Skills
Essential criteria
- High developed IT skills including word processing skills, spread-sheet skills, Power Point etc
Desirable criteria
- Ability to extract and present data from Datix and Epact
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
- Emmanuel Idowu
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist Medicines Quality & Governance
- Email address
- [email protected]
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