Lead Technician - CD Room

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

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Lead Pharmacy Technician in the Controlled Drugs Room at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. This role involves managing the day-to-day operations of the controlled drug room, providing training to staff, and ensuring compliance with trust policies. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in pharmacy operations and leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Experience as a validated Pharmacy controlled drugs dispenser.
• Knowledge of Pharmacy stock control and management systems.
• Some supervisory or staff management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage stock holding and accuracy of stock balances.
• Provide training and assessment for Pharmacy Dispensary staff.
• Dispense and check Controlled drugs to wards.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Education

Qualified Pharmacy Technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Management and/or training qualifications

Tools

Pharmacy stock control systems

Job description

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Lead Technician - CD Room

The closing date is 05 June 2025

An exciting opportunity for a Lead Pharmacy Technician in the Controlled Drugs Room has become available on a 9-month secondment as the current post holder is going on Maternity Leave. This is an exciting role for an experienced Pharmacy Technician to develop their skills and learn more about this area of Pharmacy.

Joining a group of Lead Technicians, this role supports the Chief Technicians in ensuring we deliver a safe and high-quality Pharmacy service. Working within the Lead Technician group this role will manage the day-to-day coordination of the controlled drug room to ensure a timely and accurate top up service.

This role is a great opportunity to develop leadership and organisational skills within a busy acute hospital Pharmacy setting.

As well as this other duties will include:

• Provide training and assessment for Pharmacy Dispensary staff, in line with the Trust's CD policies to ensure provision of a high-quality service.
• Manage stock holding and accuracy of stock balances, investigating any discrepancies immediately in line with the Trust CD policies
• Ordering and receiving of Controlled drugs from suppliers
• Completion of legal paperwork and filing this away

This role is a great opportunity to develop leadership and organisational skills within a busy acute hospital Pharmacy setting.

Main duties of the job

• Support staff training, in line with the Trust's CD procedures and staff validations, working with the Pharmacy Education and Training team.
• Dispense and check Controlled drug to wards, ensuring they're on ward stock lists, and enquiring with the clinical ward teams if not.
• Oversee day-to-day stock holding and ordering in the QMC controlled drugs room.
• Organise and lead regular rolling and year-end stock takes, ensuring procedures are followed to maintain accurate stock balances and discrepancies are investigated and reconciled in liaison with a Chief Technician.
• Destruction of Patient own medicine (POM)
• Assist in the monitoring of service Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure quality, effectiveness and efficiency.
• Review service standards and provisions and implement change where appropriate through improvement work.
• Support managing Dispensary staffing absence supported by the Trust Wellbeing and Attendance Management policy.
• Involved in the recruitment and selection of Pharmacy Dispensary service staff.

About us

The Pharmacy Department at NUH is forward thinking and constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best patient care.

You will be joining the team at an exciting time as we embark on a journey to modernise and improve Pharmacy operational services through a process of redesign and the scoping of robotics/automation.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

Please view the full job description and person specification attached to the advert for all vacancy details.

Person Specification

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's behavioural standards

Training & Qualifications

• Qualified Pharmacy Technician registered (or has ability to register) with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Evidence of commitment to ongoing learning and personal development
• Management and/or training qualifications, or equivalent experience demonstrated by acting in a role responsible for managing staff, services or resources

Experience

• Validated Pharmacy controlled drugs dispenser and accuracy checker
• Knowledge of Pharmacy stock control and management systems.
• Some supervisory or staff management experience.
• Knowledge and understanding of the Pharmacy Dispensary Lead Technician role and responsibilities within a hospital pharmacy
• Ability to train individuals and small groups.

Communication and Relationship Skills

• Able to communicate information effectively, clearly and concisely to a wide range of staff, healthcare professionals and patients
• Demonstrate leadership skills and is approachable
• Works effectively both as part of a team and independently

Analytical and Judgement Skills

• Demonstrates competency and accuracy under pressure
• Knows own limitations and when to refer

Physical Skills

• Works accurately with an unpredictable workload and can manage potential interruptions
• Able to cope with frequent, light to moderate, manual handling activities

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.

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