Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate Services
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0700
- Employer
- Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House, Maidstone
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician
Band 5
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can 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.
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Job overview
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and committed Pharmacy Technician to provide and develop the clinical pharmacy service within Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. If you're looking for an innovative clinical role, that is at the forefront of delivering patient-tailored care within the inpatient and community services, with exciting opportunities for professional development and a good work-life balance, then look no further.
The Pharmacy Technician will join our established and respected team based at Priority Hospital in Maidstone, working both in the inpatient and community settings. We are passionate and dedicated to ensuring medicines safety is at the heart of patient care.
Our Pharmacy Technicians are provided with opportunities for personal growth and development, including support to do accredited medicine management qualifications and NHS leadership courses.
**Previous applicants need not apply**
Main duties of the job
Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, key aspects of this clinical post will include providing a comprehensive medicine management service to the inpatient and community services.
This will include focusing on medicines reconciliation on admission, discharge facilitation, patient counselling, medicines supply and delivering pharmacy services in clozapine and depot clinics in the locality.
Extended roles include contributing to the audit and teaching agendas and supporting the coordination and supply of clozapine to community patients, including near patient testing at clozapine monitoring clinics.
Working for our organisation
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3 / 4 or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC
- Medications management knowledge including appropriate policies and legislation acquired through formal education and specialist training
Desirable criteria
- Accredited Medicine management qualification
- Accredited accuracy checking qualification
- Experience in using the Point of Care Haematology (PocHi) machine
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 12 months post-qualification experience
- Working within a clinical/ward environment
- Working in various disciplines and across organisational boundaries, linking primary and secondary care
Desirable criteria
- Experience and/or an interest in mental health
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to work as part of a team
- Good at practical problem solving
- Good presentation skills
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding of the issues affecting mental health prescribing
- Project management skills
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
- Jack Roach
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07591447586
- Additional information
Amparo Valls-Lattur-Lead Clinical Pharmacist on 07795333976
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