Band 5 Clinical Pharmacy Technician – Drug Administrator Job Vacancy in South Tyneside, England, UK

Job summary

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your clinical skills. Are you looking for a challenge and the opportunity to develop your existing skills and broaden your knowledge? Do you have a passion for delivering excellent patient care? Do you want to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team as a Pharmacy drug administration technician on a ward. If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for 2 x Pharmacy drug administration technicians on an Oncology/Haematology ward, and one on a fast turnaround surgical ward .

We are looking for a dynamic Registered Clinical Pharmacy Technician who would like to enhance their role while supporting an expanding service at ward level. This is a pharmacy role which involves administrating medication to patients on the wards. All the positions are permanent posts.

The post requires the Successful candidate to be self-motivated, with excellent organisational skills and hold a strong team working ethic.

Excellent hours to work, including no late nights — Week day hours are 7am to 3pm (weekends and bank holidays are worked on a rotational basis)

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for all essential and desirable criteria required for the role. For further information about the role please contact Helen Laws — — 0121 371 8730

Main duties of the job

We are looking for highly motivated Clinical Pharmacy Technicians who would like to enhance their role while supporting an expanded Pharmacy service at ward level. The required candidates will be required to undertake drug administration duties on their specialise ward, following a comprehensive package of training and assessment.

The ideal candidates should be experienced with medicine management and will be required to undertake drug administration duties on either an oncology, surgical or Neurosciences ward.

We strive to develop the knowledge and skills of our workforce to enable them to advance personally and professionally and this is that ideal career development prospect. Therefore, recruiting the best talent to fulfil this role is really important to us. To help us achieve this, you must be an astute and driven individual to join our busy team.

You must have good organisational, communication and interpersonal skills and be able to show you are self- motivated and flexible in your approach to your work to meet the requirements for our developing service.

*A nationally recognised Pharmacy Technician qualification and be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council;

*An accredited accuracy checking qualification;

*Ward experience in a hospital pharmacy environment;

*A flexible approach to accommodate the needs of the service.

*Good time management & organisational skills

For a full list of the main duties please refer to the job description.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their ‘whole self’ to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.