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St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
With nearly 9,900 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
A number of their services are members of established clinical networks which bring together doctors, nurses and other clinicians from a range of healthcare providers working to improve the quality of services for patients. These include the South London Cardiac and Stroke Network and the South West London and Surrey Trauma Network, for which St George’s Hospital is the designated heart attack centre, hyper-acute stroke unit and major trauma centre.
Senior Pharmacy Technician - Education and Training
Accepting applications until: 03-Dec-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 03-Dec-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Cyfeiriad
- Blackshaw road
- Tref
- Tooting
- Cod post
- SW17 0QT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including weekends and bank holidays)
Salary
- Cyflog
- £54,320 - £60,981 Per annum including inner london HCAS
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Pharmacy
*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Trosolwg o'r swydd
Are you looking for the opportunity to work with a forward thinking and ambitious pharmacy department? We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic pharmacy technician to develop our pharmacy education and training programme at the St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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You will need to have a passion for education to lead the development of the Pharmacy Technician and Pharmacy Support staff workforce and the wider multi-disciplinary team within the Trust. You will be an integral member of the pharmacy team and will develop close working relationships with colleagues both within and outside of St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust including Further Education Providers and Higher Education Institutes.
You will need to be organised, have excellent communication skills and be confident to provide training to the multi-disciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to progress to a specialist education role and wants to make a difference to colleagues and other healthcare professionals development.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest healthcare organisations and has also integrated with Community Services Wandsworth. The Trust shares its main hospital site in southwest London with St George’s University of London and is linked to Kingston Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences. St George’s has an established national and international reputation as a leading hospital for specialist care including neurosciences, cardiac care, stroke and cancer. We also provide excellent local care to the residents of Wandsworth, and regional care as both an acute, hyper acute stroke unit and trauma Centre.
The Trust is a thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital, and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St George’s Healthcare is available on our website.
Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applications are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates will be contacted by email or via NHS Jobs to be informed of the shortlisting outcome.
Please see attached JD for more details
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- NVQ Pharmacy Services Level 3 plus an accredited underpinning knowledge (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences)
- Qualification in leadership or management studies
- NVQ Assessor or qualified Educational Supervisor
- Accredited Checking status
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
Meini prawf dymunol
- Other postgraduate qualifications (e.g. education and training)
- Member of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK
- Assessor A1/AVA qualification or equivalent
- Level 4 IQA (V1 internal verifier qualification
- Medicines Optimisation Programme Accreditation or equivalent experience in medicines management role
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Substantial post registration experience in a hospital pharmacy in an area relevant to practice with assessed competencies
- Experience of management and supervision of staff including recruitment, leadership, training, appraisals, sickness absence management and performance management
- Previous experience in delivering training and education, educational supervision and mentorship.
- Experience in implementing and managing change.
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of procedure and policy writing
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of co-ordinating and leading on audit and research
- Previous experience of contribution to the operational and strategic direction of the pharmacy department
- Experience of working with education providers
- Experience of supporting learners with difficulties
Knowledge & skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Comprehensive understanding of current pharmacy education and training
- In depth knowledge of level 2 and level 3 pharmacy education programmes including apprenticeships
- Ability to work on own initiative and effectively as part of a team both within pharmacy and a multidisciplinary environment
- Ability to work positively and calmly under pressure
- Ability to prioritise and plan work effectively alone and for a team including the ability to delegate appropriately
- Ability to think strategically
Meini prawf dymunol
- Familiarity with JAC / CMM computer system
- Experience of using an electronic patient record and electronic prescribing system
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Radha Shah
- Teitl y swydd
- Pharmacy Team Leader- Education and Training
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 020 8725 1581
- Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais
For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Radha Shah.
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