# Pharmacy Technician

**Company**: Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Chertsey
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy team, supporting the delivery of safe, effective and patient-centred medicines management services across the Trust.

Working within our dispensary and medicines management teams, you will play a key role in ensuring the accurate and timely supply of medicines to inpatient wards, departments and community units served by the Pharmacy.

This is a progression role aimed at moving from an AfC 4 to 5 following learning and development.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy Technician.

- Experience of working within a hospital or community pharmacy setting.

- Excellent attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy and patient safety.

- Good communication and organisational skills.

- The ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team and manage competing priorities in a busy environment.

Main duties of the job:

- Dispense and/or check all types of prescriptions and inpatient medication orders presented to the Pharmacy following clinical validation.

- Provide pharmacy services to wards and departments across Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals and community units in line with Trust and departmental service level agreements.

- Work closely with the Dispensary Lead and Chief Technician for Medicines Management to deliver an efficient, safe and cost-effective medicines management service.

- Support the provision of high-quality pharmaceutical care by ensuring medicines are supplied accurately and within agreed timescales.

- Contribute to maintaining legal, professional and local standards relating to medicines management and stock control.

- Work collaboratively with pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and multidisciplinary teams to support excellent patient care.

The Trust offers the full range of NHS benefits and discounts.

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## Skills

### Required
- General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration
- Pharmacy experience
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Organisational skills

### Nice to have
- Accredited Checking course
- Practice Supervisor Course
- Supervisory experience
- Medicine Management/Optimisation ward-based experience

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