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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Ability to work flexible hours during go-live support and when participating in internal shift work (with on-call component).)
Job ref
040-PST054-0625
Employer
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Gwent Hospital
Town
Newport
Salary
£46,840 - £53,602 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/07/2025 23:59
Interview date
04/07/2025

Employer heading

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board logo

Principal Pharmacy Technician ePMA

Band 7

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments OR SUPPORT needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 OR EMAIL [email protected]

If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.

Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.

This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process

 

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a specialist pharmacy technician to join the ABUHB Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) Pharmacy Team. The postholder will be pivotal in delivering ePMA across ABUHB, working alongside digital and healthcare professional colleagues. This is an exciting time for ABUHB as we progress ePMA implementation, and we need an experienced pharmacy technician to join the team.

The postholder will have a passion for digital systems and improving patient safety, and demonstrate the ability to work under their own initiative, and collaborate with other members of the project team.

This role will need a full-time dedicated person who can work flexibly to deliver the pharmacy elements of ePMA project. Initially this role will require availability during core working hours (Monday to Friday, plus weekend commitment on rota basis) to accommodate clinical areas. As the programme progresses through implementation, the postholder will work as part of the team that has extended flexible working, including participation in shift working arrangements to accommodate early mornings, late evenings and weekends. 

Main duties of the job

The role will hold responsibility to:

•Lead the configuration, implementation, management and optimisation of the ePMA system as a significant job responsibility.

• Lead collaborative working and stakeholder engagement to ensure digital solutions deliver the ABUHB strategic and operational goals.

• Work with the multi-disciplinary ePMA team to develop and deploy technology-enabled process change.

• Act as a role model for practicing Pharmacy Technicians to ensure ePMA and other digital system activities are embedded into modern 
pharmaceutical care for patients.

• Assist in developing and delivering an agreed programme of training to Medical, Nursing, Pharmacy, and other staff to ensure safe and 
effective use of the system.

• Support with the delivery of Pharmacy services as a registered Pharmacy Technician, participating in internal shift work (with on-call 
component) when required during periods of implementation and system upgrade.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see further details as per attached job description and person specification document for full job criteria. 

Person specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Desirable criteria
  • Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification

Experience

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  • Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Desirable criteria
  • Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification

Skills and Attributes

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  • Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Desirable criteria
  • Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification

Other

Essential criteria
  • Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Credit Unions WalesApprenticeships logoAge positiveImproving working livesStop Smoking Wales is the NHS Smoking Cessation Service in WalesArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardStonewall Hyrwyddwr Amrywiaeth Diversity ChampionMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerHyderus o ran anabledd crflogwrCore principles

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.

Welsh language skills are desirable

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Robert Weller
Job title
Lead ePMA Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01633 234231
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