Pharmacy Technician

Cleveland Clinic London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Private Medical & Dental Insurance

Life Assurance

Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work

Workplace Nursery Scheme

Wellbeing Hub & EAP support

Earned Wage Access

Discounts on food, retail, and more

Job summary

Cleveland Clinic London is recruiting a Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy team in London. This full-time role offers 37.5 hours per week at 33 Grosvenor Place, with a salary of up to £42,000 and a shift pattern including days and nights (07:00–19:00 and 19:00–07:00 every 3–4 weeks).

You will work in a brand-new high-acuity environment, using the latest equipment and secure systems to ensure safe dispensing and excellent patient care, with opportunities to grow across specialties and

Qualifications

• GPhC-registered pharmacy technician required.
• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Services or equivalent.
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice.
• Experience in a busy dispensary and hospital pharmacy is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high-quality, patient-focused pharmacy services with clinical staff.
• Support day-to-day dispensary operations and assist lead technicians or pharmacists.
• Prepare labels and assemble prescriptions accurately per SOP.
• Organise timely supply of out-of-stock medications to patients.
• Counsel patients on dispensed medications and address queries.

Skills

Dispensing accuracy

Patient counselling

Team collaboration

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Services

GPhC registration

Job description

Our vision is to be the best place for healthcare anywhere and the best place to work in healthcare.

We believe that every life deserves world class healthcare.

Job Summary

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: 33 Grosvenor Place, London, SW1X 7HY

Contract: Full-Time & Permanent

What are we looking for?

Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy team, with a salary of up to £42,000.

This is a full-time, Monday to Sunday role (07:00 – 19:00)

There is a requirement to work 1 set of night shifts (3/4 shifts) every 3-4 weeks (19:00 – 07:00)

What makes us different?

Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.

Patient safety is at the heart of all our pharmacy services. At Cleveland Clinic London, we’ll be using automation, unique to the UK, digital infrastructure, secure storage systems, and bar-coded medicines administration to achieve a closed loop medicines administration system. Our Pharmacy services will enable patients to be fully involved in their own care and to make shared decisions about their treatment.

What will your duties include?

• Maintain and develop high quality, consistent, patient-focused pharmacy services in conjunction with clinical and patient services staff.
• Participate in the efficient day to day running of the dispensary and assisting the lead/senior technician/ Pharmacist when required.
• Prepare labels using the pharmacy computer system and correctly assemble prescriptions, ensuring each item is accurately dispensed and in the correct packaging, according to standard operating procedures (SOP).
• Organise the timely supply of out-of-stock medication to patients, prioritising and delegating this to other pharmacy team members when necessary.
• Counsel patients on the use of their dispensed medications, offering advice and answering any queries.

What we need from you?

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) (essential).
• NVQ Level 3 (or recognised equivalent) in Pharmaceutical Services (or similar) (essential).
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice.
• Experience of working in a busy dispensary department.
• Previous hospital pharmacy experience.

What We Offer

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest all profits back into our organisation. This allows us to provide meaningful, tailored support and development opportunities for our caregivers - alongside a range of benefits, including:

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Double-matched salary exchange pension – contribute 5% and we’ll contribute 10%
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes
• Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Wellbeing Hub with mental health, coaching and EAP support
• Earned Wage Access - get early access to part of your pay when needed
• Access to discounts on food, retail, and more

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

If you would like to know more, please email [e-mail].

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.