Specialist Pharmacy Technician Medicines Optimisation

Job summary

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospital trusts in the UK. Our modern state of the art pharmacy with robotic and automated technology currently comprises of a dedicated team of 150 staff. The pharmacy service includes dispensing medication for in-patients and out-patients, managing a Top-up service to wards and clinics, running a satellite pharmacy service and a comprehensive ward service.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated person with good interpersonal and organisational skills who will enjoy being part of this friendly, dynamic team.

Main duties of the job

This is a unique and exciting opportunity to support the Operational manager and clinical pharmacist team leaders in the provision of a ward-based pharmacy service to the clinical speciality and associated wards. This position is open to pharmacy technicians with post qualification ward based experience, we would like to hear from you.

You will work alongside a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to lead and provide a core service of medicines optimisation in clinical areas. You will arrange supply of discharge medicines which includes dispensing and checking of TTAs on the wards. The post holder will also support the induction and training of ward-based pharmacy technicians, ATO's, Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians and Trainee pharmacists.

The candidate must hold the NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent and be a professional registered Pharmacy Technician who has achieved the Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification and be a qualified educational supervisor.

The successful candidate will require excellent communication skills and enjoy both an individual challenge and working as part of a large team.

About us

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest healthcare organisations and has also integrated with Community Services Wandsworth. The Trust shares its main hospital site in southwest London with St George's University of London and is linked to Kingston Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences. St George's has an established national and international reputation as a leading hospital for specialist care including neurosciences, cardiac care, stroke and cancer. We also provide excellent local care to the residents of Wandsworth, and regional care as both an acute, hyper acute stroke unit and trauma Centre.

As well as acute hospital services, St George's Healthcare provides a wide variety of specialist and community hospital-based care and a full range of community services to children, adults, older people, and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, a multitude of health centres and clinics, schools and nurseries and patients' homes. We employ 8,000 staff, have an annual income of c£560m, around 1,100 beds and we serve a population of 1.3 million across southwest London.

The Trust is a thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital, and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.