SP250298 - Pharmacy Technician

We are looking for an ambitious and motivated qualified pharmacy technician to join us in the Acute Pharmacy Service within the Clinical Pharmacy team. You will have post registration experience upon which to build your knowledge and practice within clinical pharmacy services. The role works at ward level with the multidisciplinary team and closely aligned to the clinical pharmacists. Key tasks are medicines reconciliation and chart review, provision of medicines for inpatient use, patient counselling, discharge planning and dispensing accuracy checking at ward level. You will also be required to support, train and supervise less experienced technicians and students. Training and support will be provided for this role.

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) is the largest hospital in NHS Grampian, located on the Foresterhill site in Aberdeen. ARI is a teaching hospital with around 800 inpatient beds, offering tertiary care for a population of over 500,000 across the North of Scotland. It offers all medical and surgical specialities with the exception of some organ transplants.

Applications for this post are invited from qualified, registered technicians with relevant post qualification experience. A dispensary checking technician qualification is required and if not already held, must be undertaken.

Contact for enquiries: Cady Mathieson (Principal Technician) or Kim Cruttenden (Principal Pharmacist) via [email protected]

Interview date to be confirmed.

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.