Job summary
- Main area
- pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (End Date - March/April)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 337-NP-8660DG
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northwick Park
- Town
- Harrow
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 Per anum- Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacy Technician- Patient Services
Band 5
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our Patient Services. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and patient orientated pharmacy technician with experience and a passion in this area of work within hospital pharmacy. You will work with the dispensary team and the medicines management team to help implement, deliver and continually improve the technical support for both in-patient and out-patients and relish the additional challenge of acting as a deputy to the senior pharmacy technicians. You should have a keen interest in IT and a desire to further develop your management and IT skills.
Main duties of the job
Excellent communication skills and enjoying working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team are essential. You will also need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and be committed to continuous professional development.
All applicants must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a pharmacy technician.
This is a full time post and the post holder will be required to participate in the weekend and late night duty rota.
Working for our organisation
The London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust consists of Northwick Park and St Mark’s hospitals, Central Middlesex Hospital, and Ealing Hospital.
We care for more than half a million people living across Brent, Harrow & Ealing as well as patients from all over the country and internationally at St Mark’s, our specialist hospital for bowel diseases. This makes us one of the biggest and busiest NHS trusts in the capital.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibilities, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Hospital pharmacy experience
Desirable criteria
- Management experience
- Experience in education and training pharmacy staff
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- ducation and Qualifications NVQ Pharmacy services Level 3 plus accredited underpinning knowledge (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent) or equivalent
- Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician qualification, or currently undertaking
- Professional registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
- Medicine Management Qualification
- Management Qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Maha Abdullahi
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacy Technician for Patient Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 88692217
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