Job summary
Are you a passionate and experienced Pharmacy Technician looking to shape the future pharmacy workforce? We are seeking a B6 Lead Pharmacy Technician, Education and Development to lead and support the training, education and professional development of pharmacy staff, specifically PTPT's (Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians). This exciting role combines clinical practice with education, mentoring and leadership responsibilities, offering the opportunity to coordinate training programmes, facilitate professional development, support workforce planning and work collaboratively with regional education partners. As an accredited Pharmacy Technician with significant hospital pharmacy experience, you will be a positive role model, an effective communicator and a champion for learning and continuous improvement. If you are enthusiastic about developing others, driving excellence and helping to build a skilled, future-focused pharmacy workforce, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Training and Development
• To work with department leads to establish appropriate rotas in order to facilitate the rotation of students through the department
• To complete the registration of new students to their training providers
• To support and assess NVQ 2 and NVQ 3 students training through Buttercups (department wide)
• To carry out end of period reviews and assessments for NVQ2 and NVQ3 students training through Buttercups
• To support the BMET (or other training provider) students and liaise with the provider where necessary
• Complete quarterly LDA Census updates for the Trust
• Attend regional Training and Education meetings (West Midlands)
• Attend and support careers evenings and events and promote Pharmacy as a career
• To co-ordinate and facilitate ACT training for the department
• To co-ordinate and facilitate CD training and the West Midlands Dispensing Accuracy Assessment for the department and as a mentor for those carrying out the assessments
• Take referrals from department leads with regards to individuals who require tailored one-to-one support; support the individuals and their ongoing progression
• To be responsible for apprentice recruitment and support for the department
• To manage and facilitate requests for work experience
• To work with the MSO to facilitate learning from mistakes
• To deliver Medicines Optimisation training when necessary

About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Person Specification
Qualifications

• GPhC Registration as Pharmacy Technician
• Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician
• Management or education post registration qualification (or equivalent experience in a hospital setting)

Skills

• IT Literate in routine Microsoft applications ( Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc)
• Knowledge and understanding of basic management principles including team management and motivation
• Knowledge and skills to mentor and develop staff

Experience

• Significant experience in Acute Hospital Pharmacy
• Experience of carrying out performance reviews and development of staff including training.
• Development and consistent delivery of Key Performance Indicators for a service
• Involvement/Leadership in project delivery

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. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).