Chief Technician

Transformationunitgm; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust in Sheffield as a strategic leader in the Senior Pharmacy Management Team. You will be responsible for guiding a large team of pharmacy technicians, ensuring operational excellence and compliance with legal requirements while developing staff and services. The role offers professional challenges and a supportive environment with numerous benefits, including flexible working options, career development opportunities, and generous leave provisions.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Career development opportunities

Good annual leave and pension schemes

Health and wellbeing packages

Financial support systems

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Significant experience in hospital pharmacy at a senior level.
• Evidence of relevant professional learning and development.

Responsibilities

• Strategic management of the pharmacy technician workforce.
• Professional leadership and operational management of medication teams.
• Implementation of workforce development initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Strategic Management

Operational Management

Team Development

Education

Registered Pharmacy Technician

Qualification for General Pharmaceutical Council Registration

Postgraduate/Masters Level Learning

Formal Project Management Qualification

Accredited Checking Technician Status

Job description

Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Northern General Hospital Town Sheffield Salary £62,215 - £72,293 pa/pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 02/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 21/07/2025

NHS AfC: Band 8b

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

This new and exciting role has been created to join the Senior Pharmacy Management Team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to help shape the pharmacy workforce of the future. Being professionally and operationally responsible for the technician and assistant workforce (over 150 WTE staff), the successful candidate will help provide strategic leadership for this staff group across all sites within the Trust.

A strategic thinker, who demonstrates exceptional leadership skills and operational knowledge of hospital pharmacy services, along with in-depth knowledge of the pharmacy workforce issues will excel in this role.

Working locally, regionally and nationally, the successful candidate will ensure that the STH Pharmacy Technician/Assistant workforce is at the forefront of workforce development initiatives. Advising the Chief Pharmacist directly on all professional issues, the post holder will ensure that all legal and statutory requirements are met.

Main duties of the job

· Strategic Management and Business Planning
· Professional Leadership
· Operational Management – dispensary and medicines management teams
· Workforce Development
· Governance and Patient Safety
· Management responsibilities for a senior team (1wte band 8a, 3wte band 7) covering all hospital sites.

Working for our organisation

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. It is an energetic and vibrant organisation that places patients and staff at the heart of everything they do. We provide a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, spinal cord injuries, renal and cardiothoracic services.

As a teaching hospital, we have a great commitment to education, training, and development of staff, including undergraduates from many professions. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it services . The NHS offers a wide range of benefits including pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance and career, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The trust will give you time to use your skills and help you develop a fulfilling career as well as a commitment to support flexible working and can support such things as, part time hours, condensed hours, or job share. These options are not exhaustive, and we would encourage candidates to state any forms of flexible working they would like to explore in their application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Please refer to the job description and person specification for more details or Contact Graham Marsh (Chief Pharmacist).

Person specification

Qualifications

• Approved or recognised course/qualification meeting the requirements for registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Evidence of relevant professional learning and development, preferably to postgraduate/masters level.
• Formal project management and/or quality improvement qualification.
• Accredited Checking Technician Status or equivalent qualification.

Experience

• Significant experience in hospital pharmacy at a senior level, managing complex services across multiple teams
• Highly developed broad based operational/management knowledge acquired from experience and/or post graduate study
• Experience of working with a wide range of other professionals in integrated teams.
• Significant experience of working with and applying Human Resource procedures, including managing attendance, recruitment, disciplinary policies and supporting staff wellbeing
• Proven track record of delivering and implementing change to education and training programmes.
• Experience of training/teaching pharmacy staff.
• Experience of developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) audit, and service review.
• Experience of setting and monitoring standards for delivery of pharmacy services
• Experience of Budget Management.

Skills and Knowledge

• Knowledge of key NHS policy and implications on pharmacy services
• Understanding of the pharmacy role as part of the Integrated Care Boards (ICB).
• Knowledge of pharmacy technician professional practice at national, regional and local levels.
• Have excellent communication skills; non-verbal, verbal and written in order to communicate with a broad spectrum of people (from senior directorate managers to members of the public). demonstrable from previous experience.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate to a wide range of stakeholders and present evidence of service delivery information.
• Ability to analyse and interpret information when undertaking investigations of incidents, complaints and HR investigations demonstrable from previous experience.
• Proven ability to develop skill mix in pharmacy services.
• Ability to be proactive in networking and benchmarking with colleagues across all healthcare organisations, demonstrable from previous experience.
• Empathetic and sensitive to customer needs (patients and staff) demonstrable from previous experience.
• High degree of self-motivation and able to motivate others.
• Excellent interpersonal skills – ability to form positive relationships at all levels

Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on skilled worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the skilled worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here (link to the gov.uk website).

Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. W hen you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete. The personal statement is exactly that; personal.

When selecting to apply via NHS Jobs, you will be redirected to our preferred recruitment system called Trac. You will be asked to create and submit your application via the Trac recruitment system.

You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. All communications should be sent via your Trac system account.

If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.

Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.

The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.

Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.

All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.