Job summary
Are you a motivated, patient-focused Pharmacy Technician looking to develop your career in a busy acute NHS hospital?

We have an exciting opportunity for a GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technician to join our Patient Services team at Queen's Hospital. Working within a friendly and supportive pharmacy department, you will provide ward-based and dispensary services, helping to ensure patients receive safe and effective medicines throughout their hospital stay.

The role includes medicines reconciliation, drug history taking, assessment of patients' own medicines, dispensing for inpatients, outpatients and discharge patients, patient counselling, and final accuracy checking as an Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT).

As part of one of London's busiest acute trusts, you will gain experience across a wide range of specialties, including acute medicine, stroke, neurology, oncology, respiratory medicine, endocrinology and frailty services. This is an excellent opportunity to broaden your clinical knowledge and develop your skills within a progressive pharmacy team.

We offer a comprehensive training programme, ongoing professional development and excellent opportunities for career progression.

If you would like further details, contact Helen Little, Dispensary Manager at Queen's hospital at helen.little8@nhs.net

Main duties of the job
The post holder will carry out routine pharmaceutical duties in a professional manner and provide a high quality, patient orientated service, both in dispensaries and on the wards.

About us
We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.

The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.

Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.

Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process, assistance with completion of the application form or if you require any adjustments (for applicants with a disability) please contact Pubudu Chandrasekera, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 5110. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.

Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a UK Pharmacy Technician
• Accredited checking pharmacy technician qualification (regional or as part of the pre-registration course)

Experience/ Knowledge

• Experience of dealing with patients and the public

Desirable

• Experience of being in a Medicines Management role e.g. Assessment of Patients own medicines, drug history taking, medicines reconciliation.
• Experience of using Cerner Millenium EPR/EPMA
• Experience of working in a ward environment

Skills/ Abilities

• Demonstrates attention to detail and accuracy

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.