203062 - Pharmacy Technician - OPAT

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated Pharmacy Technician to join the pharmacy team at University Hospital Monklands to provide maternity cover. This post will require an enthusiastic, forward thinking individual with excellent communication and time management skills to ensure the provision of an effective, safe and person-centred approach to delivering pharmaceutical care to OPAT patients.  This post holder will be required to drive and have access to a car.  The post older will work across all 3 of the acute sites - University Hospital Monklands, University Hospital Wishaw and University Hospital Hairmyres and potentially primary care sites.

The post holder will be a key contributor to the OPAT multidisciplinary team supporting the OPAT pharmacist by completing medicines reconciliation, interaction checks, medicines information enquiries and patient counselling, including on complex oral antibiotic regimes. This will require interpretation of relevant haematological and biochemical laboratory tests.
This post will involve liaison with patients, the OPAT team and District nurses to co-ordinate the supply of medication particularly for Intravenous administration. It will also require communication with the wider Primary Care team, i.e. GPs and community pharmacy to ensure robust pharmaceutical governance.  You will develop, maintain and analyse an accurate recording system to ensure a comprehensive audit trail is available for all dispensing episodes and quantities are maintained to ensure cost efficiencies.   Experience in using Word and Excel would be advantageous.

This post will provide opportunities to further develop your skills and to support the continuous drive to improve cost effective and safer use of medicines.   There will be an opportunity to attend NHS Lanarkshire Quality Improvement training and to use these skills to audit local care against the recognised OPAT Key Performance Indicators.  You will be expected to contribute to the Antimicrobial Management team within NHS Lanarkshire and have input at local and national meetings. If you are looking for a challenging role in which to develop your skills and knowledge then this post will provide an excellent opportunity.

If youre looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you! Please contact Rebecca Ritchie, Senior Pharmacist OPAT services on Rebecca.Ritchie@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk. 

NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.

What we'll need you to bring 

National Certificate in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent

SVQ Level III

Registered pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Dispensary checking or aseptic checking qualification

Commitment to CPD

Minimum of 2 year post qualification experience as qualified pharmacy technician in hospital pharmacy service

Experience in dispensing Discharge/OPD/in-patient prescriptions

Experience in providing a ward/department stock top-up service. 

Experience in supervision of other staff or of a functional area of pharmacy.

Thorough understanding of hospital pharmacy services

Ability to carry out aseptic and cytotoxic drug reconstitution

Computer skills/key board skills

Good communication skills both verbal and written

Ability to organise and prioritise work

Team player

Valid UK Driving Licence with access to car

Contract type

Fixed Term or Secondment for 12 months

Part Time

22.2 hours

Please note this is a part time post and the salary for this position will be pro-rata.

Please note this is a fixed term post for 6 months. Where a post only has temporary funding and an existing member of NHS Lanarkshire staff wishes to apply, this will be treated as a secondment. The employee MUST already have written agreement from their line manager to be released on a secondment before applying for the post. 

Location and Working Pattern

This role will be based in Pharmacy, University Hospital Monklands but travel between the three acute sites is expected..

The working pattern for this role Mon-Fri; 9:00-5:00 pro rata.

Looking to find out more?

If youre looking to find out more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Rebecca Ritchie, Senior Pharmacist OPAT services on Rebecca.Ritchie@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact David Murray, Recruitment Administrator on david.murray3@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk 

(Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email)

Why NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshires benefits include:

• A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service

• A minimum of 8 days of public holidays

• Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)

• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service

• Occupational health services

• Employee counselling services

• Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.

Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If youre looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.