Specialist Pharmacy Technician | Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

You will work with a team of skilled Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Support Workers supporting the delivery and development of medicines optimisation to achieve high quality, cost effective and evidence based prescribing, promoting the safe, effective and efficient use of medicines across KCHFT specialist services and to develop and maintain an excellent and progressive pharmacy service in line with legislation, the NHS long term plan and to meet the needs of our patients.

You'll be fully supported with your training and development and benefit from the wealth of training courses available to the Pharmacy team, including clinical, management, and leadership opportunities.

You must possess excellent IT, communication and organisational skills, be self-motivated and willing to develop with new ways of working. Attention to detail, being able to work well under pressure, working both as part of a team, independently and using your own initiative are also essential for this role.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

As Specialist Pharmacy Technician you will provide specialist clinical and professional pharmaceutical services to Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) Specialist Services to promote the safe, effective and efficient use of medicines and a high-quality medicines optimisation service, putting patients at the heart of everything we do.

You will work within your competencies, knowledge and skills to develop and maintain good working relationships with all stakeholders.

You will provide a comprehensive medicine management service to Specialist Services. This will include:

• Making judgments on how to manage workload
• Participate in the audit process with the specialist service sites, supporting the governance of medicines processes, policies and the learning from medicines incidents in order to maintain and continually improve standards of patient care.
• Support the process of PGD production and approval. Participate in the organisation of meetings, agendas, minutes and ensure documents are distributed in a timely manner. Provide professional knowledge and support to ensure legal requirements for PGDs within the Trust are met.
• Supporting services with the supply of medicines. Reviewing stock lists, looking for efficiencies, contributing to cost improvements and the efficient use of medicines including safe and secure storage.

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

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As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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