Principal Pharmacy Technician – Procurement

Job summary

The posts responsibilities include:

• Responsible for providing professional leadership and supervision in managing and developing procurement services based on the NPH site.
• Plays a pivotal role in the increased uptake of contract variance claims across the Trust.
• Responsible for ensuring the Trust adheres to standing financial instructions and CMU contracts when procuring medicines.
• Responsible for the Induction and Training for all staff working in procurement to work to Standard Operating Procedures.
• Responsible for the effective and efficient management of pharmacy procurement services to wards, departments and patients.
• Play a pivotal role in education, training and appraisal of pharmacy staff in all aspects of good distribution practice.
• Provides clinical expertise on drug usage in line with National and Trust policies.

Main duties of the job

Lead on cross site pharmacy procurement services including contract changes, contract variance claims, shortages and recalls.

Managing the procurement team on base site (including band 6 pharmacy technicians, procurement and invoicing officers).

Responsible for the scaling of contract variance claims.

Key liaison and responsible for roll out and management of Trust wide procurement contract changes.

Tutoring role for trainee pharmacists or pharmacy pre-registration student technicians

Training of trainee pharmacists, pharmacy pre-registration student technicians and new staff

Manage Induction of new staff

Recruitment of Pharmacy staff within the department

About us

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.