Job summary
- Main area
- none
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Part time
- Other
- Job ref
- 392-Bank-86
- Employer
- Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pharmacy Stanmore (280) L5
- Town
- Stanmore
- Salary
- £16.50 AD HOC
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 01/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Pharmacy Technician Band 5
Band 5
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients
- Rated Good by the CQC
- Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
- Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
- Recognised as a centre of excellence, leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
- Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
- In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
- Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:
- Patients first, always
- Excellence, in all we do
- Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
- Equality, for all
Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.
Job overview
Bank Pharmacy Technician Band 5 - 35 hours per week
Must be Pharmacy Technician Registered (GPHC)
Hospital Experience Essential
Salary range - £16.50 per hour all inclusive
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) takes great pride in providing safe, compassionate, high-quality care to all our patients. We are equally passionate about making the RNOH a great place to work for all our staff. As part of our ambition to continuously improve the Trust for our staff, our patients and the communities we serve, we created a set of values that define how we will act with each other and our patients.
Our values are extremely important to the way we work together and we expect everyone at the RNOH, including team members, bank and agency staff, contractors, visitors on honorary contracts, students and volunteers to share and uphold these values. Each value is underpinned by behavioural standards and all staff are expected to role model these behaviours at all times.
The role is for a bank band 5 medicine management technician. The hours are 9-5pm including late shifts and weekends as per rota.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
· Have experience of working in a hospital pharmacy post qualification.
· Provide a high quality patient focused medicine optimisation service, helping to provide a flexible and responsive service to patient needs.
· Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to deliver patient focused care to patients and ensure a timely supply of medicines, utilisation of patients’ own medicines and counselling on medication.
· Participate in medicines management, ward top-up dispensary and ward-based dispensing.
Working for our organisation
Medicines Optimisation Service Provision
1.1 To be responsible for the provision of a high quality patient focused medicines optimisation service to patients of the Trust, associated hospitals and community clinics.
1.2 To facilitate the provision of medicines to patients to assist in their timely discharge.
1.3 To carry out audit and project work.
1.4 To check patients’ own medicines for suitability of reuse and highlight any shortfalls or queries with the patients prescribed/ not prescribed medications to the ward pharmacist.
1.5 To be responsible for gaining medication histories e.g. telephoning GPs when appropriate.
1.6 To support the dispensary in the timely dispensing of discharge medication.
1.9 To counsel patients as identified according to procedures and ensure that all discharge medicines are current.
1.11 To assist in the training of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and nurses in the one-stop dispensing and self-administration system.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
2. Discharge Service Provision
2.1 To be responsible for the provision of a high quality patient focused discharge service to patients of the Trust and help ensure that service provision is flexible and responsive to patient needs.
2.2 To provide advice on the technical aspects of the service.
2.3 To facilitate the provision of medicines to patients, to assist in their timely discharge.
2.4 To check patients’ own medicines and those dispensed ready for discharge for their suitability for supply at discharge and highlight any shortfalls or queries with the patients prescribed/ not prescribed medications and the discharge prescription to the ward pharmacist.
2.6 To support the dispensary in the timely dispensing and supply of discharge medication.
2.9 To counsel patients as identified according to procedures and ensure that all discharge medicines are current.
3. General Service Provision
3.1 To provide a high quality, patient focused pharmaceutical service to inpatients, out-patients, discharge patients, community clinics, and outlying nursing homes if needed.
3.2 To work in the dispensary to assist in the medicines optimisation process and as part of the weekend/late duty rota.
3.3 To work as an ACT in the dispensary, and if required at a ward level.
3.4 To demonstrate patient focused approach including optimisation of patients’ knowledge of their medicines.
3.7 To communicate with patients and health care professionals.
3.8 To input prescription information in the pharmacy computer system for dispensing and supply of medicines to patients.
3.9 To collect and handle prescription monies according to Government and Trust policy.
3.11 To have a working knowledge of pharmacy stock control and ordering systems.
3.12 To have a working knowledge of all procedures, legislation or national guidelines relating to the storage and dispensing of unlicensed medicinal products, controlled medicines, oral chemotherapy and clinical trials.
3.14 To be working as an ACPT (accredited pharmacy checking technician) adhering to the minimum 8 hours per month.
When practicing as an ACPT, to work within defined boundaries as set out in the Pharmacy Standard Operating Procedures and Medicines Policies.
It is highly recommended for ACPT to have professional indemnity cover.
4. Education and Training
4.4 To participate in education and training of other healthcare professionals.
4.5 To participate in education and training schemes and meetings organised within the department.
General Responsibilities
6.1 To participate in all relevant departmental meetings and contribute to
effective communication within the department.
6.3 To undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade as requested by the Chief Pharmacist.
6.4 To be aware of and apply, relevant legislation such as the Health and Safety at
Work Act, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health, GMP and Medicines’ Act.
6.5 To at all times practice in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
6.6 To uphold the security of medicines and the premises at all times.
6.8 To take part in the weekend and bank holiday service according to rota.
Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults At Risk
Employees have a responsibility to ensure that prompt and appropriate action is taken
when concerns have been made about a child, young person or adults at risk. The Trust will assist you by providing mandatory training, support and advice.
IT Skills - All staff are required to demonstrate a level of IT literacy skills appropriate to their job, as it is fundamental in delivering good quality efficient health care.
Have good IT knowledge and training experience on Pharmacy systems
- Provide dispensary-based patient services to inpatients and outpatients
- To support all pharmacists (including pre-registration trainees) in the provision of the service, and if qualified to do so, practice as an ACPT.
- To help audit the service against set standards and assist in the review of service provision.
- To ensure the safe use of patients’ own medicines to optimise cost efficiency.
- To ensure the safe storage of medications stored in patients’ lockable cabinets.
- To participate in financial evaluation of medicines and expenditure reporting.
- To provide specialist pharmacy technical input into the electronic prescribing and medicines administration system (ePMA), contributing towards both operational and strategic development Through provision of an effective Pharmacy service, this post will;
Terms and Conditions of Service
This appointment is subject to the terms and conditions of employment of the Royal
National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
Professional conduct
The post holder must comply with the Code of Professional Conduct applicable to their profession.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC or NVQ level 3 or equivalent in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Accredited Checking Technician
Expereince
Essential criteria
- Previous Hospital Experience Technician top up service
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication and Interpersonal skills Computer literate Good organisational skills Ability to prioritise work Ability to assess and deal with situations.
Desirable criteria
- Patient counselling skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sejal Rajani
- Job title
- Lead Medicine Optimisation Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02089095410
- Additional information
For further information, please contact Sejal Rajani
Lead Medicine Optimisation Technician
020 8909 5832.
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