Band 5​/Pharmacy Technician

Grade: Band 5/6

Ward:Pharmacy Clinical

Why might this job interest you?

Are you a skilled and compassionate Pharmacy Technician with Clinical experience? Are ready to play a crucial role inpatient care? Join our team at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and help usmake a difference!

• Perform accurate assessment of Patients Own Drugs, assessing appropriateness and suitability for use during admission as service provision dictates.
• Undertake regular reviews of ward storage areas, removing surplus stock and any labelled patients medicines, expired fridge items.
• Maintain stock levels and top-up service to ward, liaison with ward sister and ward pharmacist to ensure appropriate stock levels are maintained and appropriately managed.
• Actively participate and perform final accuracy checking role within both ward and dispensary areas, against clinically screened prescriptions in accordance with Trust policies and local SOPs.
• Perform routine dispensing and final accuracy checking duties as requested;
  Ward stock Controlled Drugs able to supply without secondary check;
  Crash boxes;
  Paediatric Chemotherapy;
  Clinical Trials (if necessary).

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Please see attached Job Description for a more detailed breakdown of the duties and responsibilities of this role.

• Professional Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• NVQ level 3 Pharmacy services or BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or SCOTVEC or equivalent.
• Be an Accredited Checking Technician.

• Pharmacy experience in Acute UK hospital/Community Pharmacy/CCG/GP practice/HMP.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.