Pharmacy Technician Visa Sponsorship Uk

Job Description

Job Summary

An fantastic development opportunity exists for an ambitious and committed individual to build specific skills in a new senior job. We are searching for a motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our varied team and help provide pharmaceutical treatment in the Adult Parenteral Nutrition and Intestinal Failure department.

This career offers the ability to advance in the position, participate in direct patient care, work with a multidisciplinary team, and improve professional skills. Other advantages will include working in a dynamic workplace that promotes ongoing professional development through regular clinical supervision and peer support.

The intestinal failure team recognises the need of recruiting the best personnel for this post. To help us do this, you must be intelligent, adaptable, and resilient. Join our busy team. You will need good organising and communication skills, as well as the ability to work well both independently and as part of an established team. You would need to have great computer abilities and the capacity to communicate with external contractors.

If you are selected for an interview, we encourage that you schedule an informal visit to meet our staff and fully understand what this position has to offer.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for a list of all essential and desirable requirements for the position. For further information regarding the post, please contact Helen Laws at helen.laws@uhb.nhs.uk or 0121 627 8730.

Main responsibilities, tasks, and abilities required

Main responsibilities of the job

• Taking a full drug history and identifying concerns for home parenteral nutrition (HPN) patients, including details about parenteral nutrition (PN), while in the patient or preparing for the pharmacist-led telephone clinic.

• Advising patients on how to take medications and the necessity of compliance in intestinal failure, particularly short bowel syndrome.

• Assist the chemist in giving continuous guidance and support to complex patients referred by medical or surgical staff.

• Use the external ordering portal for inpatient PN orders and HPN prescriptions that are ready for approval and ordering by the intestinal failure chemist.

• To reduce waste, check and release PN, and ensure proper stock rotation and relabeling.

• Train other pharmacy workers to check PN to allow for cross-coverage for sickness and annual leave, and improve on current SOPs to guarantee best practices.

• Prepare information for patients about alternate treatments in the event of a shortage.

• Provide staff training on enteral route administration.

•  Participating in late evenings, weekends, and bank holidays.

Candidates must have strong organisational and time management skills. They must pay close attention to detail and be comfortable working collaboratively as part of a team.

UHB takes pleasure in investing in its employees, not only in terms of professional development, but also in their health and well-being.

About us.

We are acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading NHS Foundation Trusts. Our aim is to Build Healthier Lives, and we understand that we will require exceptional employees to achieve this.

Our dedication to our employees is to offer the ideal environment for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and well-being of our employees, including a commitment to provide flexible working arrangements when possible;
We provide our employees with a wide range of training and development options to help them achieve their personal and professional goals.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our employees are treated fairly and feel like they belong by providing a friendly and inclusive atmosphere. This is about equal opportunity; eradicating all barriers, including prejudice, and ensuring that each individual member of staff reaches their full potential, achieves their goals, and thrives in their jobs. This isn’t just words. We’re taking action. Our dedication to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation, where every voice is heard, and is pushed by our varied and active staff networks, as well as the Fairness Taskforce, which is managed by our CEO. We foster a culture that encourages employees to oppose discriminatory behaviour and allows people to contribute their “full self” to a kinder, more connected, and bolder place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a smoke-free hospital.

Job Description

*Please Note: For a complete job description for this position, please check the attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ3 or BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent plus further training for reviewing distributed prescriptions, supervising a technical area within the pharmacy to the degree or comparable level.

or

• Knowledge of medications management, including related legislation and policies obtained through NVQ3 or BTEC comparable level qualification plus expert training and experience to degree or equivalent level

• Dispensing Accuracy Accreditation (West Midlands scheme or equivalent)

• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

• Registration with the GPhC

•  Accredited Checking Technician (National Framework)

Desirable

•  Accredited Checking Technician (National Framework)

Experience

Essential

• Pre-qualification requires two years of pharmacy job experience.
• Currently working as a band 4 pharmacy technician / equivalent or above, with post-qualification experience in an acute situation.
• The ability to demonstrate the appropriate degree of knowledge and practical expertise for the position.
•  Significant experience in a pharmacy setting.
• Experience with the specialty function for area of responsibility.
• Experience organising other levels of personnel and their task
• Experience adhering to policies and procedures.
•  Significant experience in a hospital pharmacy setting.
• Understanding of Good Distribution Practices (GDP).
• Workplace health and safety, including COSHH
• Understanding of dispensing, stock control, supply, and information technology systems and processes.
• Knowledge of the Code of Practice/Customer Care
• Knowledge about medications, adverse effects, and where to get more information.
• Knowledge of job-related practices, policies, and procedures.
• Understands the importance of providing a cost-effective service and the necessary work methods to reduce waste.

Desirable

• Experience working as a Clinical Pharmacy Technician or in a similar role.
• Deputising for senior workers, coordinating daily workflow, and managing situational staff.
• Experience implementing new working methods or procedures.
• Take part in staff training and mentorship.
• Understanding the ward environment

Additional Criteria:

Essential

• Able to think clearly, appraise, and solve easy difficulties.
• Accepts responsibility for own work/actions and contributes to team success.
• Able to communicate complicated material at a suitable level verbally, in writing, or electronically as needed.
• Able to efficiently manage one’s own time and tasks in order to attain goals.
• Ability to assess customer needs and provide service to the required level.
• Demonstrates IT and keyboard skills, such as email and word processing.
• Ability to establish work objectives for others and assist with training and coaching. Managing departure from objectives and deadlines.
• Demonstrates appropriate interpersonal skills for collaborating with other healthcare professionals and meeting patient requirements.
• Motivates oneself and others.
• Has the knowledge and skills to counsel patients on how to utilise medications appropriately to support their treatment/care.
• Recognises when issues/activities are outside of their scope and/or capacity to refer appropriately.
•  Demonstrates initiative.
• Able to evaluate employee performance and provide constructive feedback.
• Understands the necessity for and can follow prescribed procedures.
• Demonstrates the capacity to assist, support, and train other employees.
• Adaptable to alter.
• The ability to work in a team.
• Enthusiastic, dependable, and trustworthy, with a mature attitude.
• Effective time management.
• Careful and accurate at work.
• Ability to display prudence and diplomacy.
• Fair and objective.
• Adaptable to the demands of the job, the pharmacy service, and other employees
• Good team player who can motivate others.
• Demonstrates strong self-motivation and initiative.
• Determined to improve and develop the pharmacy service and dedicated to the technician-led model.
• Desires to improve personal skills and apply them to benefit others.
• Ability to provide timely referrals to senior personnel.
• Ability to visit other Trust locations.
• Ability to work in accordance with service requirements.
• Committed to uphold the Trust Vision and Values.

Desirable

•  Capable of designing and executing SOPs in collaboration with the line manager.
• Able to evaluate employee performance and provide constructive feedback.
• Demonstrates the capacity to do a number of jobs.
• Demonstrates the capacity to train subordinate personnel on the dispensing of complicated drug regimens, clinical trials, and unlicensed items.
• Awareness of future advancements in pharmacy.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This position is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, which requires a Disclosure application to be submitted to the Disclosure and Barring Service (previously known as CRB) to check for any past criminal conviction.

Certificate of Sponsorship

applicants from job seekers who require existing skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are encouraged and will be reviewed alongside all other applicants. For further information, visit the UK Visas and Immigration page.

From April 6, 2017, skilled worker applicants requesting for entrance clearance into the UK were required to show a criminal record certificate from each country where they had lived continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the previous ten years. This requirement also applies to adult dependents (those over the age of 18).Guidance can be found here. Criminal background checks for international candidates.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must hold current UK professional registration. For further information, visit the NHS Careers page.

For assistance with your application, contact:

Helen Laws

Helen.laws@uhb.nhs.uk

01213718730