A 24-month pre-registration post in the pharmacy department at Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, leading to registration as a pharmacy technician. The post-holder rotates across the department, dispensing and final-checking prescriptions including controlled drugs and oral cytotoxics, and counselling patients in the department and on wards. It is full-time work in a busy hospital, with coursework to be managed alongside it. Candidates must be able to register with the pharmacy regulator once the mandatory qualifications are achieved.
What the job involves
- Rotate through the pharmacy department to build skills across its areas
- Dispense and final accuracy check all prescribed medicines, including controlled drugs and oral cytotoxics, under safe systems of work
- Carry out medicines management tasks, including obtaining medication histories and assessing patients' own supplies
- Counsel patients and carers on their medication in the department and at ward level
- Work with the pharmacy team and multidisciplinary teams to provide safe medicines management
- Advise staff, members of the public and patients on the use and side effects of medicines
- Advise healthcare professionals on the safe storage and handling of drugs
- Complete and maintain records of medicine supply in line with departmental procedures and legal requirements
- Work on pharmacy reception: serve patients, receive prescriptions, take payments and manage the initial receipt of work
- Communicate politely and efficiently with staff and patients face to face, by phone or electronically
What’s required
Qualifications
- Five GCSEs at grade C or above, or equivalent, including maths, English Language and Biology and/or Chemistry
Registration & licences
- Able to register with the pharmacy regulator as a Registered Pharmacy Technician once mandatory qualifications are achieved
Experience
- Understanding of the role of a pharmacy technician
Skills & knowledge
- Able to work to procedures
- Excellent problem-solving skills and methodical, accurate working
- Attention to detail
Other
- Committed to the Excellence values, particularly empowerment, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Flexible and adaptable to the requirements of the job description
- Able to manage own time to complete coursework while working full time in a busy hospital department
Nice to have
- Full NVQ2 in pharmacy services or equivalent
- A-level science
- Experience working in retail or hospital pharmacy
- Experience of rotation across different areas of pharmacy
- Confidence with a range of IT platforms
- Communicates effectively with a multidisciplinary team, verbally and in writing
- Interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills
- Able to work alone and as part of a team
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
