Specialist Pharmacy Technician: Cardiovascular

NHS AfC: Band 5

Main area: Pharmacy

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (To include weekend working as rostered)

Job ref: 196-LIS9347

Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Town: London

Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 p.a. inc of HCA

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 16/03/:59

Interview date: 21/03/2025

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacy technician looking for a new challenge to develop their career in a hospital pharmacy setting.

If you are seeking to expand your clinical skills and help to improve patients' satisfaction and make a difference within Guys and St Thomas' NHS Trust, then this is your ideal job. The post offers a chance to contribute to the continued development of pharmacy services to the Cardiovascular Pharmacy Team.

The post is suitable for a team player who is sensitive to the needs of service users. You will require excellent communication and interpersonal skills. The role is embedded in the ward teams by supporting our nurses and pharmacists to resolve any medicines management issues.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for providing a safe, efficient and accurate ward-based pharmacy service by liaising closely with pharmacists, nursing and medical staff. This role will help you to develop Medicines Optimisation and Patient Counselling skills.

You may also be required to support the Inpatients Pharmacy as an ACPT two hours a week. Therefore, a systematic and flexible approach to working is an essential requirement.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will work in a structured environment providing support to the wider team to meet key directorates targets. This will include delivering pharmacy services to a range of patients with complex cardiovascular conditions, supporting and training junior staff.

Candidates should have demonstrable competencies in hospital clinical pharmacy practice, excellent communication skills and commitment to pharmaceutical care. Furthermore, candidates should be highly organised.

Person specification Knowledge/Qualifications

• NVQ L3 Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (QCF) plus L3 QCF Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science or GPhC accredited equivalent or GPhC equivalents prior to July 2011
• Completion of the Accreditation Checking Pharmacy Technician Scheme (ACPT)
• London Pharmacy Education and Training - Technician Self Development Programme - Stage 2 or equivalent
• Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• A1 workplace Assessor or working towards Practice Supervisor, Train the trainer or equivalent qualification
• Medicine Management Accreditation or equivalent

Experience

• Have worked in a pharmacy dispensary
• Have worked in a hospital pharmacy dispensary
• Have worked in a clinical ward based team
• Have worked in a role with medicines management responsibilities
• Previous experience of delivering induction and competency based training
• Previous experience of supervising staff and workload on a day-to-day basis
• Previous evaluated experience of participation in project and audit work
• Demonstrated experience of ability to appraise staff and set performance objectives
• Previous evaluated experience of recruitment and selection of staff

Skills

• Demonstrated ability to dispense accurately to set standards
• Demonstrated ability to counsel and give advice to patients on their medications
• Demonstrated ability to accurately judge and assess patient's own medication
• Demonstrated ability to accurately record patient medicine reconciliation
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise and organise routine daily tasks using own initiative, whilst supervising and leading a team
• Demonstrated ability to plan, deliver, and organise competency based training assessment
• Demonstrated ability to work to set procedures
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure accurately
• Demonstrated ability to motivate self and others
• Demonstrated ability to communicate more complex and sensitive information effectively using clear written and spoken English to overcome barriers to understanding
• Demonstrated ability to clearly and accurately complete complex routine and non-routine documentation.
• Demonstrated accurate numeracy skills, including: • Complex calculations • Addition, subtraction, division, multiplication • Percentages, decimal, fractions, ratio
• Demonstrated effective customer service skills.
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the context of hospital pharmacy and the NHS.
• Mandatory professional CPD as defined by General Pharmaceutical Council
• Demonstrated ability to write SOP's
• Demonstrated ability to manage performance
• Familiar in using the following computer systems: • EPIC

Working for our organisation

The cardiovascular services at our foundation trust are one of the largest and most comprehensive in the UK. As a key member of the cardiovascular pharmacy team, you will support the service delivery across a range of our sub specialties. We are looking for an experienced and committed pharmacy technician to support our team.

Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitably according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or studies at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation, we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking into account the individual's personal circumstances as well as the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the onboarding process.

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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.

Name: Sihnah Jhageer

Job title: Specialist Pharmacy Technician: Cardiovascular

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Wan Ting Tee, Highly Specialist Pharmacist: Cardiovascular ( or )

Anoushka Jiwa, Highly Specialist Pharmacist ()