Pharmacy Technician Job with Visa Sponsorship (COS) at University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust – University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
The main outline of rotations will include;
– Dispensary-based training at Southampton General Hospital and The Royal South Hants Hospital, where you will be trained through competency-based learning to dispense and label accurately.
– Issuing medications to patients will also be covered.
– Experience working with the team at South Central Ambulance Service, ensuring appropriate levels of medication for ambulances across the region are maintained and supervising junior staff to meet workload demands.
– Ward-based learning where you will spend time with patients taking an accurate medication history, discussing the medications they have brought into the hospital and offering advice.
– Experience in our large aseptic units learning how to produce IV antibiotics, Total Parental Nutrition (TPN) and Cytotoxic IV/Infusions.
Person specification
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Registered pharmacy technician in UK by GPhC or working towards qualifications suitable for registration as a pharmacy technician with the GPhC within the next six months.
- Numerate and literate e.g. GCSE in Maths and English A* to C or equivalent or IELTS test score 7 as required by GPhC if overseas candidate
- Accurate dispensing of medicines (in hospital or community pharmacy or aseptics)
- Maintaining continuous professional development requirements or training portfolio
- Dealing with customers and / or patients
- Able to use a range of information technology programmes
- Demonstrates being able to organise own and others workload and prioritise effectively
- Able to work antisocial hours, weekends and bank holidays as per rota.
- Able to travel to and work at RSH / SGH and other sites if required
Desirable criteria
- Additional pharmacy qualifications e.g. Completed APTUK Foundation Framework Management training Practice supervisor or TAQA Medicines Management qualification PIPC or ACPT
- Hospital pharmacy experience
- Stock control / ordering experience
- Providing a ward-based medicines management service
- Aseptic pharmacy experience
- Clinical trials or research experience
- Experience of using JAC or similar pharmacy based computer systems
- Experience of supervision of staff or trainees
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Patients First
- Always Improving
- Working Together