Hospital jobs

[jigneshg123]

Hello, I am about to finish my first year in Pharmacy Technician two months.I am working in a community pharmacy and looking for job in hospital.Can anyone let me know please that do i need to be a qulified before apply ? or do they consider students of NVQ level as well ?

[ScrabbleGirl]

All the Pharmacy Technician jobs in hospitals that I've seen advertised by the NHS require you to have completed your NVQ3 and be registered/eligible for registration. There are also Student Pharmacy Technician jobs available, but these seem to be for people to complete the entire NVQ 3 (and BTEC) while in the post, rather than for people who have already finished a year of NVQ3.

It might be worth contacting local hospitals and asking if they would consider employing you and allowing you to finish your training with them. Or you could just look for Student Pharmacy Technician jobs and apply for those, saying that you've already finished a year of your training. Contacting hospitals you'd like to work in would probably be best, as they'll be able to tell you what their requirements are.

[dizzyb23]

Same as Scrabblegirl says.....I don't know of any hospitals that would take someone halfway through a Tech course. Are you unhappy where you are currently training?? If you can, stick it out and then when you finish, you can move on easily...

[jigneshg123]

i dont have any problem in mu current job but it is like my dream to wrok as pharmacy tech in hopital. I like hospital atmoshere more then hospital and also u can make progress day by day.Any way thanks for your reply .........thank you very much

[jigneshg123]

ok thank you very much............

[ScrabbleGirl]

i dont have any problem in mu current job but it is like my dream to wrok as pharmacy tech in hopital. I like hospital atmoshere more then hospital and also u can make progress day by day.Any way thanks for your reply .........thank you very much

If you're happy enough in your current post then I think what dizzy suggested is a good idea - stay and finish your training and then you'll have far more chance of getting a job in a hospital. Student Pharmacy Technician jobs are pretty few and far between from what I've seen, but Technician jobs become available fairly regularly so you should be able to move into hospital more quickly if you get qualified first than if you wait to get a training job in a hospital.

I know what you mean about preferring hospital atmosphere and opportunities for progress though - I can't wait to get an opportunity to work in hospital rather than community!

[taskerrose]

more and more hospitals are seeing the benefits of having qualified techs as more trusts adopt using one stop dispensing, using patients own drugs etc, thats why there is a hugh demand for trained techs at the moment but there is still a need for student techs, mainly to work in the dispensary and most trusts will train you up in NVQ's as most hospital dispensaries are technician led services allowing pharmacists to go to wards. You do have more opportunites in hospitals but also you have a much higher level of responsibility as well. thats the main reason why techs are paid more in hospitals. Some days the pressure of respsonsibity is very high and stressful, you need to have a high degree of confidence in yourself. On the down side most hospitals are struggling with their budgets at the moment and unfortunatly not recruiting but I would advise that you write to them and get your name on their records so that when they can recruit they have your details, finish your training and log on to the NHS sites to see what jobs are being advertised, I just kept at it whist I was training and was lucky enough to be offered a post just as I qualified so it can be done.