Senior Pharmacy Technician

In this role, you’ll assist Senior Pharmacy Technicians in providing pharmacy specialist services such as in and outpatient dispensing, accuracy checking, patient counselling, ward stock and individual patient dispensed top-ups.
You’ll work alongside Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Technicians and Assistant Technical Officers, and effectively communicate with medical and nursing staff to ensure timely availability of medicines.
Following departmental, Trust and professional standards and protocols, and without direct supervision, you’ll support Senior Pharmacy Technicians if needed, and prioritise your own, and junior staff’s, workloads. This will include dispensing a range of prescriptions, including clinical trials and complex regimens; accuracy checking; patient counselling; data input; and ward-based services such as discharge prescriptions.
This role involves working on weekend, late-night and Bank Holiday rotas.
This is a progressive role depending on experience and begin as a Band 4 but will progress to progress to Band 5 on completion of agreed criteria.
Applications welcome from pharmacy technicians qualifying this summer or from registered pharmacy technicians in community settings who wish to develop their career at Trafford Hospital .
You must hold a BTEC and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent (or be qualifying imminently) and be registered as a pharmacy technician with the GPhC. Ideally, you’ll also have a BTEC Level 4 in Accuracy Checking Dispensed Medicines or equivalent recognised qualification.
You’ll understand and be adept at performing a range of work procedures and practices that require underpinning theoretical knowledge of dispensary processes, controlled drugs legislation, and medicines storage and security.
Confident and accurate in the dispensing process and computer software, you’ll be manually dexterous and able to communicate clearly with everyone from healthcare providers to the general public. You’ll be organising your day and workload, so you’ll need to be able to work independently, too.
If you have a mature attitude, are a team player, and committed to professional development in a healthcare setting, this could be your next best career move.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our over 28,000 strong workforce to pursue their career goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from an extraordinary scale of opportunity.
We’re also creating a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research & innovation through the introduction of Hive; our new Electronic Patient Record system, launching in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, offering a robust infrastructure to facilitate high-quality research programmes. Moreover, we’re excited to be progressing our MFT Green Plan along with our vison to become an Anchor Organisation, creating new jobs, promoting healthy lifestyles, developing skills and contributing to a zero-carbon environment for the benefit of the local neighbourhood.
At MFT, we create & foster a culture of inclusion & belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open & transparent, protecting your health & wellbeing & shaping MFT’s future together.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Catheryn Potts Job title: Specialist Senior Pharmacy Technician Email address: Catheryn.potts@mft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0161 746 2520
Carmelda Patrick
Pharmacy Technical Operational Lead Trafford
Carmelda.Patrick@mft.nhs.uk