Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7322793JA
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide - North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician – Vaccination
NHS AfC: 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 individual to work as a pharmacy technician within the Vaccine Team . The successful candidate will support the existing nursing team and pharmacy staff to deliver the Trust's vaccine programme to both staff and patients. In this novel role the successful candidate will be expected to provide pharmacy support to the team in addition to vaccine administration via Patient Group Directions (PGDs) and other legal mechanisms in a role amongst the first of its kind.
Full training and mentorship will be provided from experienced staff working within the teams and senior pharmacy staff.
The post holder will be expected to provide input on the department's clinical rota, weekend rota and covering accuracy checking slots. It is vital the post holder is able to work across inpatient clinical areas and within the Vaccine Team to compliment their development.
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
Provide a safe and high quality patient care.
Ensure the safe delivery of medicines management related to medication within the trust.
Provide a safe and high quality patient care.
Ensure the safe delivery of medicines management related to medication within the trust.
Provide leadership alongside technical and clinical knowledge to support MDTs working within the hospital and vaccination settings.
Opportunities for further development are available within our expanding forward thinking service.
Provide leadership alongside technical and clinical knowledge to support MDTs working within the hospital and vaccination settings.
Opportunities for further development are available within our expanding forward thinking service.
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 the trust-wide vaccination team on a routine basis, but also, whenever required, to other specialist areas e.g. ward/clinical setting, aseptics.
· The primary immunisation programme represents a key public health measure which contributes to the reduction of health inequalities and to the achievement of national and local health objectives.
· The post holder will support with improving the uptake rate and safe delivery of a large-scale vaccination programme within hospital, community and educational settings contributing towards the public health agenda by improving health outcomes for staff and patients. They will work collaboratively with occupational health and wellbeing staff in supporting the delivery of vaccinations to patients, the public and staff.
· 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 / Registration
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 of achieving 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).
- Relevant evidence of CPD demonstrating that their knowledge and training are current and show evidence of revalidation if appropriate.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive relevant experience working in Pharmacy with post-qualification relevant experience in a hospital or primary care setting as a qualified/registered pharmacy technician.
- Knowledge of the operation of Hospital Pharmacy Services.
- The post holder will have experience of working at ward level or in a clinical setting, or primary care setting.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering vaccinations within hospitals and community settings
other
Essential criteria
- Post holder has a valid driving licence
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]
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