Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is among the largest acute hospital trusts nationwide. We offer acute and specialized services to residents of Portsmouth, South East Hampshire, and West Sussex. Our reputation for innovation and excellence continues to grow as we consistently deliver outstanding performance while nurturing the skills and expertise of our staff.

The Pharmacy Homecare Team currently has an exciting opportunity to join the team on a maternity cover basis. Your responsibilities will include managing the workflow of prescriptions coming through the team and creating purchase orders to ensure a continuous supply of patient medication. You will work closely with the lead technician(s) to take the service forward and maintain attention to detail and accuracy. To be successful in this role, you must have excellent organizational skills to manage your workload and the whole team. You will also need good IT, communication, and interpersonal skills to work positively with other Healthcare Professionals. This role requires you to work effectively as part of the small pharmacy homecare team as well as part of the broader hospital pharmacy team. You will maintain your core skills through work with the wider Pharmacy Team, supporting the provision of a world-class pharmacy service. You will maintain effective relationships with clinical teams and third-party homecare providers, ensuring patients receive the best possible service. Birthdays are always special days with our homecare team.

Job summary

• Supporting management of Pharmacy Homecare Team, providing services with significant responsibility and autonomy, including aspects that are complex and/or non-routine.
• Main area of responsibility is Pharmacy Homecare Team but requires an awareness of other areas and work alongside clinical teams.
• Supports with the management of the Homecare Medicines budget of £18.5M.
• Support the management of the Pharmacy Homecare Team to include varying numbers of technicians, pharmacy assistants and officers. To transfer leadership to other areas when required as directed by Chief Pharmacist.

For further information, please refer to the Job Description

Qualifications

Essential

• Possess BTEC (pharmaceutical science) or recognised equivalent and/or NVQ level 3 (pharmaceutical science)
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Nationally Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) Qualification

Desirable

• Formal management qualifications e.g. PS, NVQ, A1 Assessor or Medicines Management

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in supervising and training staff
• Experience of procurement process and practice including management of invoicing and payment activities
• Demonstrable experience in developing and writing work instructions and training packages
• Implementing change/service development
• Interaction with other Health Care Professionals
• Implementation of working with policies and procedures such as HR Policies, IPR, Sickness/Absence and Recruitment

Desirable

• Experience of managing a small section of a service
• Demonstrable experience of managing staff and a technical service within a hospital setting
• Dealing with challenging and emotional behaviour 
• Evaluation of a service
• Management of other team members including IPR and objective setting
• Recruitment selection of other technical staff
• Experience of training other members of Pharmacy
• Specialised dispensing and associated administration
• Problem solving with other Health Professionals
• Acting as a mentor to junior staff
• Rostering staff

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Good knowledge of Quality Systems Management and pharmaceutical quality assurance and control
• Direction, control and supervision of pharmacy and support staff
• Track record of operational planning of technical services
• Track record of staff appraisal and development
• Negotiation skills
• A good knowledge of all aspects of GPhC Standards and Quality and their application to hospital pharmacy
• Good communication skills and clear, spoken English
• Competent in keyboard skills ability to use Microsoft Office or equivalent
• Good organisational and leadership skills development (CPD)
• Skilled in delivering training
• Able to write training packages
• Ability to plan and complete tasks to a deadline

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Reliable and honest
• Flexible
• Positive attitude to ongoing training and assessment
• Enjoys working with the public and fellow healthcare professionals
• Able to demonstrate initiative and self-motivation
• Able to work under pressure and adapt to rapid change
• Willing to learn new skills and actively acquire new knowledge

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most. 

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.