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Job Overview

Due to expansion we have an exciting vacancy for GPhC registered Pharmacy Technicians.

Applications are welcome from those working in community pharmacy or other pharmacy sectors.

Previous Hospital Pharmacy Experience Is Not Essential.

This is a band 4/5 progression post. The band 5 gateway covers accredited checking if not already obtained and leadership development if ACT already held.

A comprehensive in house competency will be delivered, including supervisory and leadership training, providing the skills required for hands on line management which will be offered once competent.

If you enjoy working in a busy, fast paced environment, learning new skills and helping to improve patient experience this could be for you!

Main duties of the job

Providing excellent patient care to both inpatients, outpatients and external care units.

Working with the EPIC electronic prescribing system and Omnicell drug cabinets to provide an accurate, timely and cost effective pharmacy service.

Accurate labelling, dispensing and checking a wide range of prescription types including controlled drugs, clinical trials, total parenteral nutrition, chemotherapy, home IV and palliative care.

Medicines management rotations will allow direct patient contact and training in taking medications histories, medicines reconciliation, safe and correct use of prescribed medicines and patient counselling on new medications.

A competency unit will be issued for each area to ensure full training is delivered and competence is proven before you will be expected to work independently in these areas.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The post holder will be a GPhC registered Pharmacy Technician.

Excellent communication skills and a keen eye for detail.

Ability to work independently and within a large diverse team.

See Job Description For Detailed Requirements.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered as a Pharmacy technician with the GPHC
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Recognised ACT qualification
• Medicines Management Accreditation
  
  

Specific Competencies for Role

Essential criteria

• Clear communication
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a pharmacy setting
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other,Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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