Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 24 months (annex 21)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 8.30 - 5pm)
- Job ref
- 110-ACS156-0524
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Prince Charles Hospital
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfi
- Salary
- £25,524 - £28,010 per annum pro rata 70% top of band 4 in year 1, 75% in year 2
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Pre-registration Pharmacy Technician (Training post-Annex 21)
Band 4
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
This post is a fixed term training contract of 24 months.
The training post provides the opportunity to gain the required experience and qualification(s) needed to register as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
Salary: Initially Annex 21 Band 4 - 70%, progressing to 75% after 12 months.
Pharmacy technicians develop a high level of expertise in relation to medicines and health and they work as part of healthcare teams in hospitals, manufacturing units, community pharmacies and GP practices. They focus on management and use of medicines to make sure all types of people get the best outcomes from their medicines. They lead teams delivering medicines service.
During the two year training you will be expected to gain experience reflecting the changing and growing roles of the Pharmacy Technician.
Successful completion of the programme enables you to apply to the General Pharmaceutical Council for registration as a pharmacy technician and to apply for jobs as a pharmacy technician.
Main duties of the job
If you are accurate, methodical, caring and interested in health and wellbeing then this could be the opportunity for you.
We are looking for forward thinking, enthusiastic, organised and motivated individuals to join our dynamic and motivated Pharmacy team at Pharmacy team at Prince Charles Hospital.
The role of the Pharmacy technician is varied and interesting and continuously developing new roles, which is why we are offering this opportunity to explore this innovative role in a rotational training programme.
You will gain experience in a Hospital setting dispensing for In-patients and Out-patients, Purchasing and Distribution and ward based work.
This post is fixed term for 24 months due to training contract.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 4 GCSE's A* to C including English, Maths and Science
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people
Desirable criteria
- Previous Pharmacy Experience
- Experience of working in a team
Aptitude and Abilities skills
Essential criteria
- Good communicator both written and verbal
- Team Worker
- Ability to work to procedures
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Accurate and consistent in work application
- Attention to detail
- Computer/Literacy and Numeracy Skills
Desirable criteria
- The ability to speak or learn Welsh to a satisfactory level
- Familiar with drug names and Pharmacy terminology
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Highly motivated
- Willing to accept a challenge and break new ground
- Approachable and professional manner
- Ability to remain calm in a busy enviroment
- Committed to continuing professional development
- Ability to embrace the healthboard values on a daily basis
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Owen
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01685 728516
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