Senior Pharmacy Technician – Education & Development job at Guildford Full Time

Are you a Pharmacy Technician with a passion for education and development? Are you ready to take the next step in your career to develop our future Pharmacy workforce alongside your own management skills? If so, we would love to have you join us for this role as Senior Pharmacy Technician – Education & Development. This role is part-time – 24 hours per week.

The Pharmacy Education & Development Team at the Royal Surrey actively seeks to innovate the delivery of training programmes, including developing and launching multi-sector training programmes for both trainee pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

Working within the multi-disciplinary team is key to the post and we are seeking candidates who work with enthusiasm, can use their own initiative, show a willingness to learn and are keen for a new challenge. The department is supportive of personal/career development, and you should be keen to continue your professional development.

If you are ambitious for the future of pharmacy and think you have the knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for this post, then please do apply. Applications from those seeking job-share and/or secondment are also welcome.

You will work closely with the other members of the Pharmacy Education & Development Team in a supportive environment to further build your skills and develop your expertise in pharmacy education and development. You will have the opportunity to build relationships with stakeholders, both within the trust and regionally, to develop training programmes in line with national requirements, at an exciting time when we are offering cross-sector training programmes for pharmacy trainees with the mental health, general practice and community pharmacy sectors.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn’t the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

A video about the Royal Surrey – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo

• As a member of the Pharmacy Education & Training team, to support the training and development of pharmacy trainees in line with local, regional and national guidelines, personal development plans and service needs
• As a member of the Pharmacy Department, to ensure safe, effective, economical and timely pharmaceutical care for all patients receiving a pharmaceutical service from the department
• To support the education, training and continual professional development of all pharmacy trainees, registered pharmacy professionals and pharmacy support staff
• To support the apprenticeship training for pharmacy trainees, registered pharmacy professionals and pharmacy support staff
• To support the development, delivery and evaluation of education and training provided within the Department and within the Trust
• To participate in the ‘front-line’ provision of Pharmacy Services as appropriate and when required, including pharmacy clinical and dispensing services