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Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
About
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
On this site we present details About the Trust, How to Contact us, Guides to our Services, a variety of Information for Patients and other information about the activities undertaken by the Trust, as well as our current Job Vacancies and information About our Region for those interested in joining what we believe is a successful, progressive and forward-looking organisation.
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Pharmacy Technician (Band 4 to 5 depending on experience)
Closed for applications on: 5-Jul-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 5-Jul-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Scunthorpe General Hospital
- Address
- Cliff Gardens
- Town
- Scunthorpe
- Postcode
- DN15 7BH
- Major / Minor Region
- Lincolnshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £25,147 - £34,581 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 4 / 5 depending on experience)
Specialty
- Main area
- Pharmacy
Job overview
We are looking for a Pharmacy Technician to join the pharmacy team and assist in developing the pharmacy workforce across the Trust.
Would you like to try something different, why not take us up on the opportunity to join our ward-based pharmacy team in a role where you would be providing a near-patient service.
This is an opportunity to learn and develop new skills, whilst working in the ward environment as part of the clinical pharmacy team.
We are a progressive department in a Trust that encourages and supports quality improvement to deliver the best services we can for our patients. We are actively using skill mix and role development to enhance job content and quality across all levels of the department.
Our team of technical and non-technical staff has a high profile within the Trust and we have an opportunity for you to join our friendly and supportive Clinical Pharmacy team at Scunthorpe General Hospital.
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The successful candidate will perform a range of activities; the core being to work as part of the ward-based clinical Pharmacy team, completing medicines reconciliation for our patients and all associated tasks, in addition you will work in the dispensary to undertake some dispensing and final accuracy checking of prescriptions. Training for all areas of work will be provided.
Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) is well established in the Trust.
It is essential that you have a BTEC National Certificate in Applied Sciences (Pharmaceutical) and NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy Services Skills or equivalent and are registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician.
We offer a career progression pathway from Band 4 to Band 5 with the following criteria:
- The completion of a development programme such as CPPE modules relevant to the role or equivalent which demonstrates your ability and competence to works as a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician
- If you are a registered Pharmacy Technician and want to try hospital pharmacy we can provide the opportunity for applicants to train in the hospital environment, gain the required skills and achieve completion of the required development programme.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values, kindness, courage, and respect.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Nationally recognised Pharmacy Technician qualification such as NVQ3 and BTEC in Pharmaceutical Services or equivalent level
- • Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- • Holds a Nationally/Regionally accredited Technician Checker qualification or a willingness to undertake in house training
Occupational Experience
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrable relevant experience working within a Pharmacy environment ideally from a hospital pharmacy setting, but not necessary as relevant training will be provided.
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in hospital pharmacy which included medicine reconciliation, patient counselling and use of patients own drugs
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Maureen Blackburn
- Job title
- Pharmacy Site Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03033 302883
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