Pharmacy Technician Cornwall
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This is a large integrated drug and alcohol service working across Cornwall with some of the most socially excluded groups.
If using your pharmaceutical skills and knowledge to support our service users and develop our frontline teams sounds good to you, then we hope you’ll read on to learn more about this opportunity.
About the job
You’ll be joining a dedicated, compassionate team of people whose purpose is to keep our service users safe while they work with us to get back to where they want to be.
Medication can be a really important part of that journey and your skills and expertise will be vital to ensure we provide the correct medicine and that it is used safely and in the most effective manner.
Managing our use, control and storgage of medicines and their associated stationary is an essential part of the role. You’ll be asked for your input into how we develop these services and educate our frontline teams to maintain high quality service provision and build an ever better offering for the future.
Benefits
There are a number of staff benefits of working for We Are With You that include:
- 28 days holiday plus a bank holiday allowance (pro rata for part time staff)
- Enhanced employer pension contribution
- Life assurance benefit scheme
- Flexible working patterns to help with work life balance
- Diverse package of training and development opportunities
- 24/7 access to employee
We have an excellent Refer a Friend scheme which offers you a £500 bonus for any recommendations, any role! Our scheme allows you to recommend your friends and family to work with us and earn a £500 bonus payment for every successful referral you make. Please note, the Refer a Friend scheme is only applicable if your recommended friend completes their 6 months probation period.
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Please note this advert may close sooner if suitable applications are received.
Essential Skills
To successfully carry out this role you will need:
- to be a registered Pharmacy Technician with GPhC
- an NVQ Level 2 Pharmacy Services BTEC Pharmacy Technician (or equivalent)
- evidence of your continuous professional development
- at least 2 years post-qualification experience of working in a pharmacy enviroment
- experience of providing medicine related advice to service users/carers
- experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- knowledge of controlled drugs regulations
- to be able to work effectively in a team
- be organised, able to priorise well and deal with unexpected demands on your time
- to be comfortable using IT and gathering, monitoring and analysing data
- good oral and written communication skills
- be able to work alone but also recognise when to refer in line with your personal/professional limitations
- able to travel to different locations as and when required
Desired Skills
While these are not essential, candidates who have some or all of the following in addition to the essential criteria will be at an advantage:
- be an accredited medicines management technician
- be an accredited checking technician
- training, teaching or presentation skills
- assessment skills including an understanding of risk assessments
- experience of audit
- experience of change management in medicines management
- knowledge of dealing with personal safety situations
- criminal justice or mental health experience
- a successful track record of monitoring costs and expenditure
- knowledge of policy development
- medicine information experience
- formulary management experience
About Company
Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.
At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that’s staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that’s right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.
We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year.
We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.
We Are With You.
Essential Requirements
To successfully carry out this role you will need:
- to be a registered Pharmacy Technician with GPhC
- an NVQ Level 2 Pharmacy Services BTEC Pharmacy Technician (or equivalent)
- evidence of your continuous professional development
- at least 2 years post-qualification experience of working in a pharmacy enviroment
- experience of providing medicine related advice to service users/carers
- experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- knowledge of controlled drugs regulations
- to be able to work effectively in a team
- be organised, able to priorise well and deal with unexpected demands on your time
- to be comfortable using IT and gathering, monitoring and analysing data
- good oral and written communication skills
- be able to work alone but also recognise when to refer in line with your personal/professional limitations
- able to travel to different locations as and when required
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