pharmacy technician Nottingham, England
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an ambitious Pharmacy Technician to develop their experience within the Pharmacy Department at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH).
You will be joining the experienced, supportive Pharmacy Governance and Medicines Safety Team.
In this role, you will work closely with the Lead Pharmacist for Medicines Safety and the Lead Pharmacist Pharmacy Governance.
You will be an experienced technician with excellent organisational skills and the desire to provide a high quality, safe, effective and efficient service to our patients, trust colleagues and commissioners. You will demonstrate initiative, problem-solving and decision-making skills. Accuracy, attention to detail and the ability to work to strict deadlines are key to success in this role.
If you are able to demonstrate these skills and are looking for a new opportunity to develop then we may have the perfect role for you.
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification document attached to this advert.
The post focuses on improving the safety of the medicines prescribing and administration process, to patients in clinical areas
To take forward clinical governance, medicines safety and quality issues on behalf of the Pharmacy Governance and Medicines Safety leads for the pharmacy department. This will include being responsible for the management and organisation of any relevant Medicines committees
To be responsible for reviewing and investigating medication errors, to identify learning, and to develop policy and good practice guidance for safe medicines usage practice and standardisation of practice
To promote safe medicines practice by publishing information and assisting delivery of with the medicines management and medicines safety training programmes/ events in the support of NHS England guidance, NatPSA alerts, and CQC standards .
To contribute to our response for complaints relating to Pharmacy services where they originate in wards and departments
To manage, organise, deliver and develop relevant Medicines Safety and Medicines optimisation Audits
To act as a point of contact and resource for governance information and support on medicines management issues
To act as a point of contact and resource for management of Patient Group Directions
To assist with reviewing of the Medicines Safety risk register
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest acute teaching hospital Trusts. We have a well-established Nottinghamshire-wide medicines formulary through collaboration with local primary and secondary care partners.
We've made a clear commitment to our patients and staff and will do all we can to ensure our patients get the best possible care we can give them. We want you to be proud to be part of the NUH team.
You will be required to work across both City Hospital and QMC campuses of NUH and participate in a flexible shift working system including evening, weekend and bank holiday arrangements over a 7 day period.
For further information please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
1. Governance and medicines safety
To support the relevant Medicines Committees. This may include preparing agendas, minutes and action summaries and overseeing the implementation of actions determined by the committee. To actively participate in the meeting representing Governance, Quality, Risks, and Safety issues
To be responsible for ensuring that risk assessments for the implementation of the Medicines Management and Medicines Safety topics are prepared, co-ordinated and undertaken. This will include being responsible for the development and maintenance of the Medicines Safety risk register
To provide information to all members of Trust staff by entry into the weekly pharmacy newsletter, monthly Medicines Safety Updates and Trust briefing as appropriate.
To assist and deliver any relevant educational programme/ events relating to Medicines Safety and Medicines optimisation within or external to Pharmacy
To be responsible for investigating and analysing reported incidents that relate to Medicines Safety and Medicines Management processes, , liaising with the Chief Technician Pharmacy Governance and also the Pharmacy Governance lead and Medicines Safety Lead, to identify solutions to reduce risks. This will include providing regular reports on current trends and the changes in practices that have been identified to reduce risk
To be a member of the senior technical management team and be involved in identifying, planning and implementing the strategic development of the pharmacy technical clinical and patient support services at NUH
1. Quality Improvement
To undertake and support Medicines quality improvement and assurance audits
To undertake and support relevant Medicines Optimisation and Medicines Safety and project work
To support in the analysis of prescribing and administration data available in software such as EPMA, Qliksense
1. Other Duties
To take line management responsibility for designated staff, this is to include carrying out:
Personal development reviews, including objective setting and KSF reviews
Sickness absence reviews
Performance management
Recruitment and selection
To undertake a regular operational commitment in order to maintain competencies and demonstrate fitness to practice as a registered pharmacy technician. This is to include dispensing (including controlled drugs and cytotoxics), counselling patients on their medication, collecting prescription fees and shop sales payments, accuracy checking (including controlled drugs) and utilisation of the pharmacy computer system
To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties. This post-holder will be required to provide dispensary cover on weekends (half-day both weekend days) approximately once every four to five weekends – this may vary with staffing levels. For each weekend worked, a full-day will be recompensed in either the week before or after the weekend cover.
To undertake any other duties relevant to the grade as specified by the Chief Pharmacist
