Pharmacy Technician

Package Description:
As a Pharmacy Technician within our Children's Services Team in Surrey, you'll be part of an organisation that is committed to helping colleagues thrive professionally and personally. Alongside a rewarding role that makes a real difference to children, young people and families, you'll benefit from:

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Are you a motivated and forward-thinking Pharmacy Technician looking to make a meaningful impact on children's healthcare?

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Surrey Children's Services Team, supporting the Lead Pharmacist in delivering high-quality medicines optimisation across services that support children, young people and families.

This is a unique opportunity to work beyond traditional pharmacy settings, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to improve medicines safety, governance and effectiveness across community-based children's services.

You'll play a key role in supporting medicines optimisation initiatives, undertaking audits, reviewing prescribing activity, monitoring medicine-related incidents and ensuring learning is embedded across services. Your expertise will help ensure safe, effective and compliant medicines management while supporting service improvements and innovation.

Base:
Our Healthy Family Teams support services across Surrey, and you'll be based from one of our Surrey office hubs, with the opportunity for hybrid working.

At HCRG Care Group, we're proud to be a flexible-first employer. While you'll have an office base, we support agile and hybrid working arrangements wherever possible.

Main Responsibilities
In this varied and rewarding role, you will:

• Promote best practice in medicines optimisation across Children's Services.
• Build strong relationships with clinical colleagues, commissioners and partner organisations.
• Support medicines optimisation work programmes across the Integrated Care System (ICS) and Integrated Care Board (ICB).
• Analyse medicines-related data, audits and incident reports, providing recommendations for improvement.
• Produce and present reports relating to medicines governance and optimisation activities.
• Support the development and implementation of medicines-related Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Undertake audits, service reviews and site visits to strengthen medicines governance.
• Contribute to Patient Group Direction (PGD) governance and Non-Medical Prescribing governance.
• Help ensure the safe handling, storage and administration of medicines across services.
• Provide medicines-related advice, training and competency support to colleagues.
• Support quality improvement initiatives involving controlled drugs, antimicrobials and medicines administration records.
• Represent the Lead Pharmacist at medicines management meetings when required.
• Keep up to date with legislative, regulatory and professional developments relevant to medicines practice.
• Maintain professional standards in accordance with GPhC and Royal Pharmaceutical Society guidance

What We're Looking For
Essential
We're keen to hear from candidates who have:

• Registration as a Qualified Pharmacy Technician with an NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent.
• Knowledge of medicines legislation and medicines management within community services.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise competing demands.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent IT and data management skills.
• High levels of accuracy, attention to detail and sound decision-making abilities.

Desirable

• Experience using ePACT prescribing data.
• Previous experience within community health services or primary care settings.
• Understanding of medicines optimisation in community healthcare environments.

Other Requirements

• Access to a vehicle insured for business use to facilitate travel across Surrey sites.

For further information please contact Lisa on View phone number on meeveem.com or email View email address on meeveem.com

About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As youd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company youll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job well need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Registration as a Qualified Pharmacy Technician with an NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.