Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (22.5 hours over 3 days)
- Job ref
- 846-7155895-TS
- Employer
- Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tonbridge Cottage Hospital
- Town
- Tonbridge
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician- Community Hospitals
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
We are looking for a registered Pharmacy Technician to join our team based in Tonbridge Cottage / Hawkhurst Hospital.
Our Pharmacy Service actively tries to ensure that medicines are optimised for individual patients, that they are empowered to manage their own medications whilst in Hospital and educated to prevent avoidable future admissions and keep them safe in their own normal place of residence. Discharges are paramount and collaborative working across healthcare sectors plays a key role in keeping patients safe.
Working with the wider Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) our patient centred approach is demonstrated by all those in the Pharmacy Team from the moment the patient enters the organisation, through their Community Hospital admission to their safe discharge.
Main duties of the job
You will provide a comprehensive medicine management service to the community hospital wards.
- Making judgments on how to manage workload
- Completing comprehensive medicines reconciliation on admission including checking and documenting specified blood results and highlighting to pharmacist where further review of a patient’s medication is required and interpreting and applying information retrieved from medical and nursing notes with regards to medicines reconciliation and prescribing issues
- Checking patient’s own medication (PODs) to aid in problem solving and to adequately manage medicines orders.
- Managing the supply of medicines during admission alongside the Pharmacy Support Workers to reduce the impact of missed doses of medicines on a patients care.
- Ensuring compliance with prescribing guidelines and with local formularies
- Being involved discharge facilitation, supporting self administration of medicines, providing patient counselling, making appropriate referrals to support services to help ensure patients (or their carers) go home safely able
Additional Working Pattern: 22.5 hours over 3 days
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and 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 know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences
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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. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job responsibilities
As a community Trust many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. As such you will be asked to confirm you have a full UK driving licence where driving is a requirement of the role to be able to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment, if you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number so we can support you further.
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 in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.
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.
At KCHFT we strongly encourage 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.
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Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registrations as Pharmacy Technician with GPhC
Desirable criteria
- Practice supervisors qualification or equivalent
Expereince
Essential criteria
- Experience and knowledge of pharmacy practice including dispensing and working in a clinical environment
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of processes including for prescribing, ordering, supply, distribution and storage of medicines
- Holds a current driving license and is able to travel between sites across Kent as required.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to learn from mistakes as a positive learning opportunity and encourage others to do the same.
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritise and balance a range of competing tasks to deliver to agreed timescales.
Desirable criteria
- Holds a current driving license and is able to travel between sites across Kent as required.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Miles
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
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