Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy CIVAS and PN
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 196-LIS8439
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £27,948 - £29,468 p.a inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Assistant Technical Officer
NHS AfC: Band 3
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge in an interesting healthcare setting?
Do you have good attention to detail?
Do you want to make a difference to patient care?
Are you looking for a career change or are you a school leaver looking for your first step into the working world?
If the answers to the above questions are yes, then continue reading!
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Assistant Technical Officer to join our Pharmacy CIVAS and PN unit at St Thomas' Hospital. The site manufactures a broad range of patient specific products for use in the trust including antibiotics and cytotoxics, and parenteral nutrition which is currently outsourced.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will work within a team of trained assistants, technicians and pharmacists to facilitate the supply of medicines which make a real difference to patients with complex or rare conditions for which commercial medicines/treatments are not available.
You will ideally have experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment and be able to show you can work accurately, efficiently and follow procedures at all times. However full training will be provided to the successful candidate.
Information on the role and its requirements can be found within the job description and person specification documentation attached.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of manufacturing a variety of pharmaceutical dosage forms.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working in a hospital environment.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE English, Maths & Science Grade A to C or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Pharmacy Services Level 2 plus additional training/experience equivalent to NVQ level 3
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated ability to communicate information effectively using clear written and spoken English
- Demonstrates basic numeracy skills, the ability to accurately add, subtract, multiply and divide
- Demonstrated ability to accurately follow written and oral instructions
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Allison Harmon
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071885055
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