Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Pharmacy Technician to take on a new locum role.
Pharmacy Technician Pay Rate: £17 - £20 per hour (assignment rate)
Location: Wolverhampton
Contract Type: Locum ongoing contract
Benefits of working with us:
- Effortless Registration: Say goodbye to paperwork! Our fully online and paperless registration service streamlines the process, making it convenient and hassle-free for you.
- Compliance Made Easy: Enjoy peace of mind with our free DBS and compliance service, which includes paid-for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules tailored to your needs.
- Exclusive Opportunities: Unlock access to prestigious Pharmacy Technician roles that you won't find elsewhere. From collaborating with NHSBT to supporting vital projects at The Home Office and Vaccination Centres or relocating candidates to Australia, The Falkland Islands and many other destinations, our network opens doors to diverse and impactful assignments in the UK and globally.
- Expert Guidance and Support: Benefit from personalised clinical governance and revalidation support from our in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years of experience. We're here to ensure you're always on top of your game.
- Rewarding Referral Program: Spread the word and reap the rewards! Refer a Pharmacy Technician and receive a generous £250 bonus once they've completed just 100 hours of work. The best part? There's no limit to how many Pharmacy Technicians you can refer.
- Professional Development: Working as a locum Pharmacy Technician provides opportunities for continuous professional development. You may encounter new challenges, technologies, and best practices in different settings, which can enhance your clinical skills and knowledge.
Duties of the Pharmacy Technician:
- Adhere to Standard Operating Procedures: Operate at all times within the local Standard Operating Procedures relevant to the area of work.
- Prescription Management: Receive, interpret, validate, dispense, and issue routine and non-routine prescriptions for in-patients and out-patients, seeking advice from senior staff when necessary.
- Medication Dispensing: Dispense and self-check medications both manually and using a computerised automated dispensing system.
- Ensure Correct Medication Delivery: Take appropriate actions to ensure patients receive the correct medication, along with advice and counselling, ensuring all directions associated with medicines are fully understood.
- Aseptic Product Preparation: Accurately reconstitute, compound, and manipulate within an isolator after completing Broth Validation and training, preparing aseptic products including:
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- Parenteral Nutrition
- Cytotoxic reconstruction
- Clinical Trials Materials
- CIVAS
- Ophthalmic products
- Monoclonal antibodies
- Other aseptically prepared products as needed
- Intrathecal Chemotherapy Preparation: Attain and maintain the skills required to prepare Intrathecal chemotherapy preparations, including initial training, written and practical competence tests, and annual reviews and updates.
- Environmental Monitoring: Participate in environmental monitoring for a sterile area, including surface sampling, swab testing, plating, and active air sampling according to GMP guidelines under the direction of senior and Principal Technicians.
- Quality Assurance: Participate in Quality Assurance activities, completing documentation to GMP guidelines and performing audits under the direction of senior and Principal Technicians.
- Broth Test Maintenance: Maintain a current Universal Broth Test, which is mandatory for performing aseptic manipulations.
- Clinical Trials Documentation: Accurately record appropriate details according to written protocols for aseptically prepared clinical trials.
- Prescription and Work Sheet Production: Produce work sheets and prescriptions for parenteral nutrition and cytotoxic preparation using designated computer software (e.g., Datacomp and Ascribe).
- Volume Checks: Undertake volume checks during the aseptic reconstitution/compounding process after completing a volume checking competence-based assessment.
- Pharmaceutical Service Support: Order, receive, store, select, assemble, and prepare items for issue by the pharmaceutical service.
- Special Orders Preparation: Prepare special signed orders for patient-specific Parenteral Nutrition and Cytotoxic preparations.
- Disclaimer File Maintenance: Maintain an up-to-date disclaimer file for named patient medicines.
Requirements of the Pharmacy Technician:
- GPHC Registration
- Previous experience within a UK based Pharmacy setting
- NVQ or equivalent – Pharmacy Technician qualification
Contact:
This Pharmacy Technician job is advertised by Billy Clark; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from the following job titles: Pharmacy Dispenser, Accuracy Checking Technician & Medicine Management Technician. NHS experience is desirable for most of our clients.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Pharmacy Technician role as we need to meet our clients requirements.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
