Senior Lead Renal Pharmacy Technician, Medicines Manageme

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The Renal Centre at Hammersmith Hospital is the hub of the West London Renal Network and sits in the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The Centre brings together a highly skilled multi-professional team thus creating a centre of excellence in an area, which has the highest incidence of end stage renal failure in the UK.
The centre provides direct care to more than 3,000 patients across 10 satellite dialysis units, outpatients (including specialist nephrology clinics, transplant) at Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary's Hospital, peritoneal dialysis at Hammersmith Hospital and pre-dialysis clinics across West London. There are also 80 renal beds at Hammersmith Hospital, which includes a dedicated high dependency unit and three other dedicated renal wards.
The renal pharmacy team has a prominent role in the renal unit prominent role in the renal unit, providing clinical pharmacy services to dedicated renal wards, satellite dialysis units and renal clinics, including independent prescribing and medication review clinics. The pharmacy team is recognised as an expert source for drug advice, facilitating the efficient and cost effective use of medicine.
Join us and we can offer you and exciting and challenging role within a supportive and enabling environment where everyone is valued.
We have an exciting new band 6 Medicines Management Renal Pharmacy technician post. The post supports a range of service from ward based services to overview and management of outsourced homecare / remote dispensing services. Support dialysis pharmacy services across NWL.
As well as facilitating and supporting the efficient and cost effective use of medicines, you will provide a pharmacy service to ward and other clinical areas, participate in consultant ward rounds and take responsibility for managing staff, drug expenditure and training.
We would expect applicants to reach out to the current team to learn more in advance of applying. Though experience in renal is desired it is not essential.
Main duties of the job
To develop the Renal Medicines Management Technician role, working closely with the renal pharmacy team on the Hammersmith site, the renal wards and satellite areas.
To work collaboratively with all of the medicines management pharmacy technicians on site to review and evaluative services, and identify and promote best practice.
To support the continuing drive to improve medicines use and safety within the Trust.
Overview and management of the prescription and invoice management for renal homecare, remote dispensing, other outsourced services and supporting the dialysis pharmacy service.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (pharmacy technician)
Mandatory CPD portfolio up to date
Overview and management of the prescription and invoice management for renal homecare, remote dispensing, other outsourced services and supporting the dialysis pharmacy service.
Desirable criteria
Short courses relevant to practice, to include supervisory/management qualification
NVQ or equivalent assessor qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
Post qualification experience of working in a UK hospital; this must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy
Experience of training and supervision of pharmacy staff
Experience working as a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician in a busy clinical environment
Experience of research and audit work
Desirable criteria
Practical experience with an electronic in-patient prescribing system
Experience of training of nursing and/or medical staff
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
Able to analyse and interpret information relating to medicines and their uses
Be able to provide information and advice to distressed patients in a calm and empathetic manner
Ability to plan own workload and priorities to meet deadlines
Ability to identify the scope of a problem, consider options for solution, select solution and review outcomes
Desirable criteria
Able to influence others through a logical and reasoned approach
Able to motivate others, both within your team and in others
IMPORTANT:
We are conducting interviews virtually and face to face. If the interview is virtual we require candidates to have the camera on during the interview.
Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within NWLP such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share. Please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need.
Please ensure you check your emails regularly throughout the recruitment process.
Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Job description (PDF, 552.3KB)
Functional Requirement Form (PDF, 232.6KB)
Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)
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