Bank pharmacy technician post with Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, supporting a range of specialties across the Trust. The work centres on ward-based medicines management, including reconciliation, patient counselling and discharge medicines, alongside dispensing and accuracy checking. The role is based in a newly modernised, automated dispensary and includes supervising trainee technicians and support staff when needed. Candidates need GPhC registration and an accuracy checking qualification, and shifts depend on service need.
What the job involves
- Provide a ward-based medicines management service
- Undertake medicines reconciliation
- Counsel patients on their medicines
- Prepare medicines for discharge
- Initiate supplies of medication
- Dispense and accuracy check stock, inpatient and outpatient medicines
- Support and supervise trainee technicians, assistants and pharmacy support staff when required
- Provide staff support, training and guidance under the direction of a senior member of staff
Qualifications
- Pharmacy Services Level 3 (BTEC/NVQ) or equivalent
- Level 3 accuracy checking qualification (ACPT)
- Level 4 medicines management qualification or equivalent, or working towards
Registration & licences
- Registered pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Experience
- Experience of hospital pharmacy, including clinical ward-based medicines management
- Recent hospital dispensing experience
Skills & knowledge
- Good communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise workload and work independently
Nice to have
- BTEC Professional Development Certificate in Technician Checking
- Patient counselling experience
- Over-the-counter medicine sales experience
- Three years' hospital experience
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The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
