Pharmacy Technician | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

If you are a qualified Pharmacy Technician looking for a new rewarding and challenging role, come and join our CQC rated 'Outstanding' Trust. We currently have an opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our team. You will deliver a high quality, safe and effective pharmacy service to our community health and mental health services across our sites in Berkshire both from the dispensary and on our in-patient wards.

We are a small friendly team, based at Prospect Park Hospital in Reading where our dispensary is located. You will have the opportunity to work at our community hospitals across Berkshire including Slough, Newbury, Wokingham, Maidenhead and Reading, as well as on the mental health wards at Prospect Park hospital.

Our working hours are currently 09.00 - 17.00 Monday to Friday with you also working a late shift in the dispensary on a rota basis, which means no nights or weekends. We offer free parking on site.

This is a joint role, with time spent both in the dispensary and our wards:

• Delivering a fast and effective pharmacy services to the wards and departments


• Completing accuracy checking session(s)


• Providing an admission, supply and discharge service to nominated wards.


• Checking Patients' Own Drugs (PODs).


• Undertaking medicines reconciliation.


• Discharge planning and supporting patients to ensure that they get the best possible outcomes from their medicines.


• Providing a ward top-up service.


• Working with the clozapine clinic team to ensure medicines are ready for the Trust wide clinics.


• Developing skills and knowledge as part of a commitment to CPD and Clinical Supervision


• Providing support to Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians and support workers while they undertake their learning.


Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you'll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.

1. Pharmacy Technician registered with the GPhC.
2. Nationally recognised ward-based qualification to include POD checking, supply and medicines reconciliation or a commitment to work towards this.
3. Nationally recognised Accuracy checking qualification or a commitment to work toward this.
4. Ability and willingness to travel between Trust locations within Berkshire.

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Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority


• Committed to providing good quality, safe services


• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions


We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.


• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell


• Generous NHS pension scheme


• Excellent learning and career development opportunities


• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme


• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services


• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants


• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality


• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.


• Free parking across Trust sites