Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Production
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6163290JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wansbeck
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Production Team Leader
NHS AfC: Band 4
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
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We are looking to appoint Pharmacy Production Team Leaders to join our growing team to train and develop our current Trainee Pharmacy Production Assistants and Pharmacy Production Assistants.
Pharmacy Production Unit currently holds a Manufacturing License (MS) from the MHRA. This allows the unit to manufacture batches of aseptically prepared products for use both inside and outside the trust. Current output for this process is 57,000 items per annum with ongoing work to increase this to over 100,000 units per annum.
The Pharmacy Production Unit also supplies licensed overlabelled products across all Trust sites to improve patient flow and improve discharge processes. Demand for this process is in excess of 200,000 units per annum.
The post will be based at Wansbeck General Hospital Pharmacy Production Unit, but the post holder may be required to work at other sites within the Trust.
Weekend cover will be based at North Tyneside General Hospital to support the 7-day clinical service to the Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.
Opportunities for further development are available within our forward-thinking service.
Main duties of the job
To play a part in our excellent pharmacy technical service. Undertaking activities within the Pharmacy Production Unit ensuring an efficient, effective and safe service of chemotherapy and ready-to-administer antibiotics are provided to our patients.
Supervise on the training of all new and existing pharmacy dispensing assistants, ensuring that all training records meet regulatory standards.
To provide Human Resource management to a group of identified staff e.g. Pharmacy Dispensing Assistants.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide technical support on pharmaceutical matters and those pertaining to medicines management within a delegated area of responsibility on a routine basis.
- To supervise the daily delivery of operational and technical aspects of the Pharmacy Production Unit.
- To ensure that there is a compliance with medicines legislation within area of practice. To support risk management and clinical governance within area of practice.
- To reduce the risk of medication error by ensuring any relevant policies/procedures are followed and safe systems are in place for the dispensing/manufacturing, supply and storage of medicines.
- To provide Human Resource management to a group of identified staff e.g. Pharmacy Dispensing Assistants.
- To support the investigation of complaints and incidents relating to area of responsibility e.g. ensure suitable responses are provided and that remedial action is undertaken.
- Supervise on the training of all new and existing pharmacy dispensing assistants, ensuring that all training records meet regulatory standards.
- To supervise and teach when appropriate less experienced staff e.g. pharmacy dispensing assistants, rotational pharmacy technicians, student pharmacy technicians, work experience students and occasionally pre-registration pharmacists.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good standards of literacy and numeracy equivalent to GCSE grade C or above in English Language and Mathematics.
- Must hold a NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services
- To have successfully completed the Level 3 Leadership / Team Leader apprenticeship (or has equivalent experience / equivalent qualification).
- Have successfully completed the ‘Aseptic Services for Managers’ course
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
- Mark Knowles
- Job title
- Head of Production
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01670 529061
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