Senior Pharmacy Technician

Are you a forward thinking pharmacy technician seeking the challenge of developing yourself further within your current role, delivering a high quality, effective and efficient patient-focused service?

You will work in the Pharmacy Department, Perth Royal Infirmary as part of the pharmacy technical team.  Your key role is to supervise and train staff, prioritise and coordinate the daily workload, manage pharmacy stocks and ensure continuing availability of medicines for NHS Tayside patients. Your role will cover Senior Pharmacy Technician duties and rotations in the pharmacy dispensaries at PRI, stores department and also within clinical areas providing medicines management services.

You will cover and provide support for the other Senior Pharmacy Technicians to deliver an effective service in line with key performance indicators.

To be considered for this post you must be registered as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) or a Pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician due to qualify and register with the GPhC in 2024. Applicants must be willing to train to undertake the final accuracy check of dispensed medicines or already have a recognised accuracy checking qualification.

Successful candidates who do not already meet the Band 5 criteria will undertake a Band 4 Pharmacy Technician career progression programme to support their professional development. On successful completion of the programme and an interview/ assessment the candidate will advance to Band 5.

Hours of work are 37 hours over a 7 day working week. Applications from those wishing to work less than 37 hours will be considered.

Qualities

• A personal and professional philosophy that puts patients at the centre of service activity
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills

• The ability to supervise and work effectively with a large group of staff
• The ability to adapt to change and meet tight deadlines
• Competent in the use of IT

Informal enquiries can be made to:Jo Lowrie, Specialist Pharmacy Technician, PRI, on or bleep 5041 or email jo.lowrie@nhs.scot

Informal discussion/visits to the department are strongly encouraged.

Why not visit and allow us the opportunity to show you around and answer any questions you may have related to this role or working in Pharmacy,

NHS Tayside is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applicants from all sections of the community.

Short-listed applicants will be contacted by email.   Please check your emails regularly, including your junk/spam folder.

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