Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Pharmacy Technician Specialist - Homecare and Procurement
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About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the delivery and development of pharmacy services across Northumbria Healthcare. The post supports the safe, efficient and cost-effective supply of medicines, with responsibilities spanning procurement, pharmacy IT systems and business information.
Working closely with pharmacy and wider Trust teams, the post holder will contribute to medicines governance, service improvement and the development of the North East and North Cumbria Formulary, while leading the Pharmacy Procurement Team. The role also provides the opportunity to use and develop specialist technical, analytical and leadership skills, in addition to clinical and operational knowledge, alongside maintaining a practising pharmacy technician role.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop pharmacy procurement and homecare services, helping ensure patients have timely access to safe, effective and value-for-money medicines.
- Use data and technology to improve pharmacy services, managing key pharmacy IT systems and producing meaningful information to support decision-making and service improvement.
- Lead a small business and administration team, providing direction, support and opportunities for development.
- Contribute to medicines governance and service development, including the Medicines Homecare Group and the North East and North Cumbria Formulary.
- Drive improvement and manage risk, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, patient safety and the use of medicines across the Trust.
- Use your specialist pharmacy technician expertise, providing technical advice and supporting clinical and operational pharmacy services when required.
- Work collaboratively across the Trust, building effective relationships with pharmacy, clinical, finance, IT and external partners to deliver better medicines services.
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About the Organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.
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Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Alastair Green
Job title: Lead Clinical Pharmacist
Email address: alastair.green@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0191 2932729
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
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