Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated pharmacy technician to join our lively, progressive, and dynamic pharmacy team. The successful candidate will provide a ward based clinical pharmacy technician service to our oncology and haematology patients, which will include working closely with the nurses to ensure a medicines management is maintained at a high standard on the wards and providing an individualised medication counselling service to patients.

The postholder will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team and will have the opportunity to work across different clinical settings including inpatient wards, daycare, outpatients, and ambulatory care.

To be successful in this role, you will need to be organised, motivated, have excellent communication and people skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to new situations.

Registration as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is essential as well as holding ACPT accreditation or be willing to work towards it. Previous experience of medicines management at ward level would be a significant advantage.

In return we can offer a professionally rewarding career with the opportunity for personal development along the way.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated pharmacy technician to join our lively, progressive, and dynamic pharmacy team. The successful candidate will provide a ward based clinical pharmacy technician service to our oncology and haematology patients, which will include working closely with the nurses to ensure a medicines management is maintained at a high standard on the wards and providing an individualised medication counselling service to patients.

The main day to day responsibilities would include:

• Liaise with pharmacy, nursing, medical and other ward staff in order to facilitate the medicines management process for Cancer Services.
• To facilitate the dispensing process for Cancer Services based in the Macmillan Cancer Centre.
• To ensure timely medicines reconciliation is carried out for all in-patients.
• To review patient's own drugs and assess their suitability for re-use.
• To cross check with patients if their medication history sent by their GP is up to date and correct and to check concordance with the patient.
• To inform patients about the medicines management scheme and what to expect during their stay.
• To counsel patients regarding the safe and appropriate use of their medicines.
• To participate in ward multi-disciplinary team meetings and to liaise with ward staff on medicine management issues.

About us

UCLH, in partnership with University College London, has been designated one of the country's five comprehensive biomedical research centres and there is an on-site early phase cancer clinical trials unit.

The UCLH Macmillan Cancer Centre opened in April 2012 and encompasses our busy outpatient clinics and daycare treatment facilities as well as our growing ambulatory chemotherapy practice.

The pharmacy cancer team is well integrated into the cancer directorate and provides a high-quality and progressive pharmacy service to cancer patients. Chemotherapy production services are delivered from a state of the art unit.

This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our Cancer Pharmacy team. We are an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, and the technical service is fundamental to supporting the flow to ensure timely medicines reconciliation and patient discharges, whilst delivering a high-quality service.

For further information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Nilouphar Tejrar (n.tejrar@nhs.net) or 07815 652 926

Job description

Job responsibilities

The postholder will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team and will have the opportunity to work across different clinical settings including inpatient wards, daycare, outpatients, and ambulatory care.

To be successful in this role, you will need to be organised, motivated, have excellent communication and people skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to new situations.

Registration as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is essential as well as holding ACPT accreditation or be willing to work towards it. Previous experience of medicines management at ward level would be a significant advantage.

In return we can offer a professionally rewarding career with the opportunity for personal development along the way.

The Medicines Management Technician post will monitor and assess systems for the safe, efficient and timely provision of medicines management to the Cancer Services directorate,

The post holder will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team and undertake an active role in the safe provision of medicines to patients receiving chemotherapy within Cancer Services.

The post holder will also act as a role model to junior technician staff, and provide a consistently high standard of service for the Cancer Services directorate in line with UCLH corporate objectives and national policy.

Please refer to the full job description for further details.

Person Specification

Knowledge & Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• NVQ Pharmacy Services Level 3 plus an accredited underpinning knowledge (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent) or equivalent
• Accredited to perform final accuracy check on clinically screened prescriptions or with suitable experience to work towards
• Accredited medicines management qualification or willing to work towards

Experience

Essential

• Significant hospital pharmacy practice experience
• London Pharmacy Education and Training - Technician Self Development Programme - Stage 2 or working towards or equivalent
• Previous evaluated experience of supervising staff and workload on a day to day basis
• Medicines Management experience at ward level
• Previous evaluated experience of participation in audit

Desirable

• Previous evaluated experience of recruitment and selection of staff
• Demonstrated experience of ability to appraise staff and set performance objectives

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Demonstrated ability to work to set procedures
• Demonstrated ability to train and assess others
• Demonstrated ability to solve more complex problems as indicated in the job description
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure accurately and maintain high standards
• Demonstrated ability to motivate self and others
• Demonstrated ability to organise project work
• Demonstrated ability to communicate more complex information effectively using clear written and spoken English and overcome barriers to understanding
• Demonstrated ability to clearly and accurately complete complex routine and non-routine documentation
• Demonstrated complex pharmacy computer and IT skills including: Email, word processing, spreadsheets, accurate data entry
• Demonstrated ability to write SOPs

Desirable

• Demonstrated ability to plan, deliver, organise and review competency based training assessment
• Demonstrated ability to organise an audit

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Willingness to learn
• Commitment to training
• Good oral and written communication skills

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

309-UCLH-2283