a new password.
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CA’s new-look website is now LIVE. You can use the same username as before but when you log on to
www.uca.org.uk for the first time you will have to request
The new website has retained the interactive functions you like most but will be much easier to navigate and find what you are looking for. For the public, there’s lots of useful information
CA is now a registered Access NI Umbrella Body for the pharmacy sector. UCA members can apply for Access NI employee checks through UCA. Under
Standard check – an employer can apply for a Standard Check for certain occupations such as Dispensing Assistant and Pharmaceutical Delivery Driver.
about community and primary care pharmacy plus news, views and the all important Out-of-Hours Rota and Pharmacy Finder.
For UCA member pharmacists, you can log on to the members’ area to access interactive tools such as LocumOnline and MedsFinder. These are quick and effective, easy to use tools which you or delegated staff can use at a time which is convenient to you.
“When I first tried to use the website to post a request on Locum Online I wasn’t quite sure what to do as it was all new to me. Once I went through the steps I found the website quite easy to navigate and posting a request for a locum was a simple process. It is good that we can log on and post at any time of the day instead of having to call between office hours.” Helen Feeny, McKay Pharmacies
current rules, an individual business would need to process more than 20 disclosure checks every year with Access NI, otherwise go through an Umbrella Body.
The criteria for disclosure checks explained: Basic check – any person can apply directly to Access NI for a basic check which they can show a prospective or current employer.
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Enhanced check – an employer can apply for an Enhanced Check for Pharmacists working in regulated activity with children or adults. Regulated activity includes the provision of health care by any health care professional (i.e. registered with Pharmaceutical Society of NI).
All community pharmacy staff, who are not regulated health care professionals, are excluded from regulated activity.
It is the responsibility of each individual pharmacy business to assess if an employee’s duties fall into a category requiring a standard or enhanced check.
They should then apply for a disclosure from Access NI. As an Umbrella Body, UCA can guide you through this process and apply for disclosures on your behalf.
For more information on how to apply for an Access NI disclosure check for a member of staff and the fees applicable, UCA members should contact the UCA office.
Pre-Registration Pharmacist Update
Exam Preparation Session It’s getting near the exam and Pre-reg trainees will be feeling nervous and starting to prepare for the big day on 7th June. UCA will be holding an Exam Preparation Day on Sat 21st May. All Pre-reg trainees are invited to attend the morning session covering mock exam questions and calculations as well as a Drug Tariff and Codebook session with Katie McKittrick.
Any Pre-reg trainee wishing to attend should email
info@uca.org.uk. Bring your BNF and copy of the April Drug Tariff. Copies of the Tariff can be purchased from UCA for £30 and collected from the UCA office or at one of the training days, but you need to order in advance. Alternatively copies can be posted (£34 inc P&P).
Trainees attending the UCA’s Pre-Reg Training Programme are eligible to enter a competition to win a £500 Pre-Reg Bursary supported by First Trust Bank. Trainees are asked to write a short report on a health promotion event or project they organised or had a lead role in during their Pre-reg year. The winner will be announced at the Life After Registration seminar. Good Luck!
Life After Registration Soon Pre-reg trainees will be thinking about their future post- exam and registration. UCA is holding its popular Life After Registration seminar and recruitment event again on Saturday morning 11th June at the Wellington Park Hotel which is FREE to attend.
Be part of it
• Benchmark your own managerial skills • Raise your profile within your organisation • Become professionally accredited through the Institute of Leadership and Management
BENEFITS TO YOUR EMPLOYER/PHARMACY • Help to foster business improvement • Encourage strategic thinking for business development • Increase ability to resolve problems and issues
Tel: 028 9065 6576
www.uca.org.uk
After a welcome breakfast, attendees will be given information and advice on potential career paths, locum work, and how to perform well in those dreaded job interviews.
There’s also financial / planning information – vital for anyone thinking about self-employment. Afterwards you can browse the recruitment and information stands.
Any pharmacies wishing to host a stand or advertise any vacancies in the delegate pack, contact Natalie on 9065 6576 or email
support@uca.org.uk.
To book your place at Life After Registration email
support@uca.org.uk.
The Ulster Chemists’ Association’s Pharmacy Management and Leadership Programme
Gain a Level 5 Certificate in Leadership and Management
BENEFITS TO YOU • Use core management techniques to drive better results • Develop your own ability to lead, motivate and inspire • Complete your annual CPD requirements • Provide you with strategic leadership, decision making and problem solving techniques
• Benchmark your own organisational standards against others • Develop your staff team
The programme will cover the following six key areas during six one day training sessions:
• Leadership and management of staff and processes • Financial management throughout the year • Managing your environment and promoting change • Managing resources, governance within the pharmacy and designing SOP’s
• Managing information and evaluating business success • Developing services and managing customer relations
Support provided from the course facilitators Paul Murray and Ashley Boreland.
For additional information, joining the programme and costs please contact Adrienne at UCA phone number:
02890 656576
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