Lead Assistant Technical Officer

☞ University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Newcastle-under-Lyme West Midlands

Category: IT - Software

Industry: Hospitals Health Care

Position: Entry level

Job type: Full-time

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We are extremely pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to work with our friendly pharmacy team in a newly developed role as a Lead Assistant Technical Officer.

You will work in the dispensary supporting Senior Technicians and Pharmacists by leading on dispensary operations and performance, controlled drug systems& processes and education and training of junior staff. The role will also develop and enhance your leadership skills by line managing staff and after completion of a training programme you will be able to accuracy check dispensed medicines.

So, if you want a change and are enthusiastic and motivated to take on a new role, look no further.

The successful candidate will form part of a rotation within the dispensary covering 3 areas of responsibility as stated above. The activities will include -

  • Planning, supervising and prioritising daily workload, producing and co-ordinating rotas
  • Working to ensure the accurate and timely dispensing of medication in order to enable the timely provision of the dispensary service.
  • Facilitate discharges in accordance with the agreed turnaround times, working on own initiative and closely with the dispensary leads and ward based teams
  • Providing a pharmacy service including dispensing routine and complex medicines to patients.
  • Completing the final accuracy check of dispensed items
  • Working closely with the Lead Technicians to ensure staff training needs are met and appropriate competencies completed providing additional training as required.
  • Actively participating and contributing to the training and supervision of the work being carried out by staff working in the dispensary and dispensing hubs.
  • Line manage allocated support staff e.g. SATOs, MMAs, ATOs
  • Mentoring and acting as a role model for others in order to ensure systems and procedures are understood and competency standards achieved by demonstrating trust values and behaviours.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Liam Colclough Job title: Lead Pharmacy Technician – Dispensary ServicesEmail address: liam.colclough@uhnm.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01782 674566
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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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