Role Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a registered pharmacy technician to join our friendly and dynamic medicines management team at the Barnstaple site of Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, helping to ensure optimum performance of the pharmacy service whilst working at ward level and in the dispensary.
About the Role
We will work with you to help you be the best version of you at work.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, physiotherapy, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
About Us
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More detail about the role
The medicines optimisation services at the Barnstaple site of Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated registered pharmacy technician to join the team.
The successful candidate will become a key member of the multidisciplinary and clinical teams working to ensure our Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Service continue to meet our patients and service users needs.
This will involve providing a ward focused service to our medical and surgical wards and to support work within the dispensary.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential for this position as is the ability to work independently and as part of a team, to be well organised, be able to adapt to changing demands and be committed to providing a high quality service and patient care.
The primary roles of this post will be to identify patients’ pharmaceutical needs, assess patient's own medication, assemble medication histories, provide medication counselling, undertake audit work, facilitate patient discharges, support with training and participate in dispensing and checking duties within the dispensary.
This post is suitable for those registered technicians who already have an appropriate accredited checking qualification and medicines management qualification. However, we would welcome applications from registered technicians/newly qualified technicians without these qualifications who would be keen to work towards a Band 5 post and to achieve the qualifications within twelve months of appointment.
Working Pattern: 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday with an expectation to participate in the weekend and bank holiday rotas.
Interview Date: Wednesday 26th October 2022.
For further information please contact Kevin Roper Lead Medicines Management Technician on 01271322395 kevin.roper@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
