Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7212428JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northumbria Emergency Care Hospital
- Town
- Cramlington
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - Procurement
Band 5
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.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic and determined, forward thinking pharmacy technician to join our clinical pharmacy team working into the Pharmacy Procurement Team.
The successful candidate will participate in the delivery of a patient focused, clinical service to medical patients with an emphasis clinical pharmacy and procurement.
There will be opportunities to lead on quality improvement and service evaluation projects. In addition to the potential to develop clinically though vocational and accredited training courses and sessions.
This post is based at the North Tyneside General Hospital although there is an expectation that the post holder would work closely with colleagues at all sites to support continuing patient care and flow. The successful candidate will also be expected to participate in the weekend rota and cover accuracy checking slots.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
Within your area of responsibility, you will:
Provide safe and high-quality patient care
Ensure the safe delivery of medicines management related to medication within the trust
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, 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, medicines management issues and medicines legislation within a delegated area of responsibility on a routine basis, but also, whenever required, to other specialist areas e.g. ward/clinical setting, aseptic services. The role will require team working as part of the many multidisciplinary teams as outlined above, as well as a need to be able to work independently and be self-motivated.
To deliver on a delegated area of responsibility on a departmental basis e.g. Health and Safety, management of patients on clozapine, staff rosters, over-labelling or emergency drug cupboard.
To participate in a weekend pharmacy service and relevant bank holiday
arrangements (unless otherwise agreed upon appointment).
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
- • BTEC in pharmaceutical science or NVQ Level 3 supported by appropriate underpinning knowledge e.g. BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences, NPA or equivalent qualification.
- • Regional Qualification or equivalent for Medicines Management for Pharmacy Technicians. (If not already held there will be an expectation to achieve this when a training opportunity becomes available).
- • Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- • Evidence of relevant specialist continuing professional development.
- • To have successfully completed an appropriate accredited technician checking qualification e.g. Regional Scheme, Buttercups. Regional Qualification for Medicines Management for Pharmacy Technicians (if not already held there will be an expectation to achieve this when a training opportunity becomes available).
- • A1 or equivalent NVQ assessor qualification (if not already held there will be an expectation to achieve this when a training opportunity becomes available).
- • IT skills to include pharmacy systems, Microsoft word and Excel.
- • Relevant evidence of CPD demonstrating that their knowledge and training are current and show evidence of revalidation if appropriate.
- • The above qualifications will ensure the post holder has the required skills for the role and has the specialist training and experience to degree or equivalent level.
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
- Alastair Green
- Job title
- Lead Clinical Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2932729
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