251422 - Senior Pharmacy Technician

About The Organisation 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.

The Role To lead, manage, develop and evaluate the pharmacy technician input to the clinical pharmacy services at base hospital alongside the Principal Pharmacist – Clinical Services (and other senior pharmacists) to ensure safe, effective and person-centred pharmaceutical care that complies with relevant local and national guidelines, legislative requirements and professional standards as outlined by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

To provide specialist professional practice within the acute ward environment, including involvement with the medicines reconciliation process, educating patients on the use of medicines and identification and resolution of pharmaceutical issues, where appropriate

In This Key Role, You Will To be involved in the medicines reconciliation process by retrieving, documenting and reconciling information from multiple sources about an individual’s medicines. Any discrepancies to currently prescribed medicines are documented and escalated to the appropriate member of the clinical team.

To contribute to and document within individual patients’ care plans by identifying, assessing and responding to pharmaceutical care issues within own sphere of competence, for example, therapeutic drug monitoring.

To educate patients and carers on the use of medicines and support concordance by providing verbal and written information, including indication, dose, treatment duration, and potential side-effects. For example, utilising anticoagulant patient education checklists.

To assess the quality of patients’ own medicines and evaluate appropriateness for reuse during admission or following discharge, where appropriate.

To assess the appropriateness of multi-compartment compliance aids (MCAs) and liaise with community pharmacies to confirm current arrangements (at both admission and discharge) or establish new arrangements for patients, where appropriate.

What You'll Bring Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

SVQ Pharmacy Services Level 3 plus accredited underpinning knowledge National Certificate in Pharmaceutical Sciences

HNC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or Management (or equivalent experience in managing and supervising staff)

Professional Development Award (PDA) - Dispensary Checking Technician Qualification (DCT)

Scottish Vocational Qualification (SVQ) assessor unit(s) (or willingness to work towards)

Continuing professional development as detailed by the General Pharmaceutical Council

What We Offer As a valued employee of NHS Lanarkshire, you can enjoy an extensive range of benefits including:

• Annual Leave - 35 days including public holidays
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Annual incremental salary progression
• Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
• NHS discounts and more.

NHS Lanarkshire is dedicated to building a diverse workforce where everyone can thrive, develop, and succeed based on their skills, knowledge, and talent - regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, or care experience* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.

• Care experienced applicants include those who have lived with foster parents, kinship carers, or in residential/secure children’s settings.

For informal discussion, please contact Lynn Hall, Chief Pharmacy Technician on [email protected] If you have any questions about the recruitment process or require support with your application, contact David Murray, Recruitment Administrator on [email protected]