Dispensary & Ward Based Pharmacy Technician

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Hello!My name is Alice Smilie, I am the Operational Manager of the John Radcliffe Pharmacy. I am privileged to lead our very hardworking, friendly, and committed Dispensary team in providing a dispensary service, supplying inpatient, outpatient, and discharge medication to Patients of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Registered Pharmacy Technician with a positive outlook to support our Dispensary and Clinical team in ensuring that our patients receive the best service possible.This post would be ideal for a recently qualified Pharmacy Technician or a Pharmacy Technician who has worked in community pharmacy and would like the opportunity to gain hospital pharmacy experience. Applicants must hold their NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy services or equivalent recognised qualification, applicants must also be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council UK, in order to work as a Pharmacy Technician.Within this role you will receive full training to become both an Accredited Checking Technician and a Ward Based Technician, allowing you to progress to band 5 on completion of both of these accreditations. These accreditations will allow you to provide the final check of medicines, and support teams with medicines reconciliation and a variety of other ward based tasks.Offered at a band 4 to 5 progression to those without MMT & ACT (Band 4 £23,949 until have met the essential criteria).Band 5 role £27,055-£32,934The Pharmacy Technician role is varied, and requires flexibility in your approach to work, supporting both dispensary, stores and ward based work on the John Radcliffe Hospital site. The successful applicant will be required to assist in the smooth running of an assigned area under direction of our Dispensary Co-ordinators and Senior Technicians. You will support the training of new members of the team, pharmacy apprentices, trainee technicians and pharmacists working alongside you.This is a varied role including labelling and dispensing of discharge prescriptions, in-patient supplies, MDS dispensing, controlled drug requests, patient counselling and extemporaneous medicine dispensing.Ward based tasks will include assessing of patients own drugs, medicines reconciliation and one stop ordering.Excellent customer service skills are essential as you will answer the phone, dealing with queries from our service users, and cover both staff and out-patient reception. Stores responsibilities include supporting ward and fluid top up services to clinical areas, receipting of deliveries and stock management procedures including expiry date checking, and processing of drugs returned from inside the hospital.We are lucky to be supported by ever evolving technology, with electronic prescribing and a robot to support the labelling and dispensing of medications. The successful applicant will be trained in the full use of the robotic system.Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alice Smilie Job title: Operational Manager, JR dispensary Email address: alice.smilie@ouh.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01865 221502For further information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Alice Smilie, Operational Manager, or Patcharin Mahitsaya, Charlotte Paddick or Louise Palmer, Senior Technicians, on 01865 221502/227853.For information on training requirements and GPhC registration in order to be eligible to apply for this position, please visit www.pharmacyregulation.org/education