pharmacy technician Royal Tunbridge Wells, England
Job description
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust providing a full range of hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury.
The Rotational Pharmacy Technician post will be based at Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
The Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.
Pharmacy service at Tunbridge Wells is highly regarded in the Trust, the Pharmacy is in a modern department complete with fully automated dispensary and excellent training facilities.
Are you looking for a permanent position after recently qualifying as a Pharmacy Technician? Or already a qualified Pharmacy Technician looking for a new challenge within the NHS to broaden your experience? Or are you a Community Pharmacy Technician who is looking for an opportunity to work in hospital Pharmacy?
Look no further, we may have the job for you!
As part of our continuing development we have the following vacancy within our friendly and experienced team. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly team and gain wide experience in a comprehensive range of activities:
The post will rotate through; dispensary, purchasing and distribution and clinical pharmacy services. Training will be provided to develop and become competent in skills including undertaking; medication histories, screening patients’ own medicines, patient counselling, supervisory/leadership skills, purchasing and distribution. You will also have the opportunity to work towards attaining a qualification in Accredited Checking and Medicines Optimisation Training Programme.
You should be someone who understands the importance of the Pharmacy Technician role within Pharmacy, who is passionate about Pharmacy and who understands and follows the GPhC professional standards.
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check atenhanced level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children).
We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work with Stonewall to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics
Interviews: To be confirmed
