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Specialist Pharmacy Technician- ePMA

On-site in Bury St Edmunds·Part-time·Added today (last checked 9 Nov)

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

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Our summary

Salary: £39,959 - £48,117 a year
About £2,690 - £3,180 a month after tax.
Work mode: On-site, Bury St Edmunds
Contract: Part-time
Closing date: Apply by Thursday 19 November

Skills

Nice to have

Surgery

The role

Job summary

The Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Part-time specialist Pharmacy Technician- ePMA to join our pharmacy team.

Are you an established Pharmacy Technician who wants to deliver high quality pharmaceutical care using an electronic prescribing and record system in a hospital team?
Are you interested in delivering quality improvement through digital technologies?

If so, come and join us at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

This exciting role will provide you with a range of experiences in ePMA system development, providing clinical decision support and medication safety features across various functionalities within the system.

You will also be part of the clinical services team, providing clinical care to a variety of medical, surgical and admissions wards.

Main duties of the job

A flavour of your day to day

Your week will consist of a mixture of clinical and digital activities. Within your digital role, you will work with the ePMA Meds Team and wider digital team to provide maintenance and improvements to the trusts electronic prescribing system.

Working clinically, you will deliver direct, patient-facing care ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines across the Trust.

Through the structured rotation plan you will be exposed to, and work within, a number of clinical areas, including:

Medical wards

Surgical wards

Admissions wards

Inpatient and outpatient dispensary

The department works on an extended hours, seven day pharmacy service on a rostered basis.

About us

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job summary

Support dispensary services by checking stock and prescriptions, ordering medicines, dispensing, labelling, accuracy checking and counselling patients on their pharmaceutical needs.

Support ward-based activities by undertaking stock control, medication supply, medicines reconciliation, expediting medicines for patient discharge and utilising close liaison with ward pharmacists, medical and nursing teams.

Communication with patients to inform and coach them about their healthcare requirements.

Support improvements in patient safety, staff support and health and wellbeing.

Person Specification

Education & Qualification

Essential

BTEC Pharm Science
oAccredited Final Checking qualification
oNVQ Level 3 or equivalent
oAccredited counselling award
oA1 NVQ Assessor Award
oManagerial Qualification or willing to work towards them
oRegistered with the GPhC

Desirable

oRecognised IT qualification

Experience & Knowledge

Essential

oSignificant post qualification experience.
oExperience leading a team
oExtensive recent experience of working in hospital
oExperience in managing technicians/assistants in a Pharmacy environment.
oExperience in training of Pharmacy staff
oExpected to have an all-round knowledge of the technical aspects of hospital Pharmacy and a broad outlook of pharmaceutical issues

Desirable

oExperience of ePMA systems
oExperience of working in community pharmacy
oPrevious experience with working with Cerner Millennium build tools
oExperience in database management
oExperience in procedure development

Skills & Abilities

Essential

oExcellent IT skills including Microsoft Office
oCommunication skills (both verbal and written)
oGood interpersonal skills
oAbility to strategically develop the e-Care system as part of a team
oAbility to influence staff within and outside the team and department
oAbility to work to deadlines and to achieve agreed objectives
oAbility to work in an organised and calm fashion in a busy environment
oAbility to deal with members of the public and other health care workers in a professional manner
oClose liaison with co-workers in the department is vital
oAble to make decisions

Personal qualities

Essential

oCommitment to the team and patient care
oOpen approach to new initiatives
oTeam working (management and professional)
oFlexibility to work in different sections of the department
oPositive attitude towards personal / self development
oParticipate in the Saturday, Sunday and bank holiday rota
oAttention to detail

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.