Lead Pharmacy Technician, Team Manager

NHS; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join the Patient Services Team at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust as a Lead Pharmacy Technician Team Manager. This pivotal role involves leading a team, ensuring compliance with regulations, and driving quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient care. The ideal candidate will be a registered Pharmacy Technician with a passion for service transformation and a commitment to improving patient outcomes.

Benefits

NHS pension plan

Generous holiday allowance

Employee health and wellbeing services

Onsite nurseries

Childcare vouchers

Car lease and home electronics schemes

Carer-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Strong background in staff management and project delivery.
• Passionate about driving improvements in patient care.
• Solid understanding of legislative requirements in pharmacy practice.

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing a team of pharmacy technicians.
• Ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory frameworks.
• Collaborating across multidisciplinary teams for integrated services.

Skills

Leadership

Change Management

Quality Improvement

Education

Registered Pharmacy Technician

Job description

A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Patient Services Team within the Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Services department at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced Pharmacy Technician to take on the pivotal role of Lead Pharmacy Technician Team Manager.

About the Role:

You will work closely with the Pharmacy Patient Services Manager to ensure the effective delivery of medication supply services across the Trust. Your role will involve:

1. Leading and managing a team of pharmacy technicians and support staff.
2. Supporting service transformation to meet evolving patient and operational needs.
3. Ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory frameworks related to medicines supply.
4. Championing quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient safety and care.
5. Collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated, patient-focused pharmacy services.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our team. The ideal candidate will be a registered Pharmacy Technician with a strong background in staff management, change leadership, and project delivery. This position is perfect for someone who is passionate about driving improvements in patient care and has a solid understanding of the legislative requirements that govern pharmacy practice.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients' homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver an excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate, and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts, and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services, and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Job responsibilities

Contact information

About the role

Support the PSM in the development and delivery of a comprehensive, high-quality range of responsive pharmaceutical services, within available resources, that contribute to the strategic direction of the Trust. This will include deputising for the PSM as needed.

Manage the Specialist Pharmacy Technicians and their teams within the medicine supply service providing effective leadership and motivation to ensure the service needs are met effectively.

Participate in all stages of the HR processes including recruitment, appraisal, grievance, and disciplinary processes for all allocated staff across the Trust and implement the outcomes, in conjunction with the PSM and HR Managers when necessary.

Ensure, on a day-to-day basis, that adequate levels of technical and support staff, with training appropriate to their roles, are available on each site within the Trust, to ensure an effective and consistent dispensary and clinical trials service.

Support Specialist Pharmacy Technicians in managing all annual and special leave, and acting as sickness absence manager for all relevant staff.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.