Pharmacy Technician

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; West Carr; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare trust in the UK is seeking an operational site lead for pharmacy services. This role involves managing pharmacy technicians, ensuring the delivery of safe patient care, and achieving departmental performance targets. The successful candidate will work closely with the Chief Pharmacy technician and other multidisciplinary teams while addressing any operational challenges. Join a dedicated team committed to delivering excellent healthcare to the community.

Responsibilities

• Operational site lead for pharmacy services and staff management.
• Manage pharmacy technicians and assistants, ensuring safe patient care.
• Work with Chief Pharmacy technician to meet performance targets.
• Establish communication with Pharmacy Team and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Identify system bottlenecks and take remedial action.

Job description

Responsibilities

You will be operational site lead for pharmacy services and the managerial lead for pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants within the department of pharmacy and responsible for the day to day delivery of safe patient care, ensuring that resources are allocated efficiently to meet demand including organising, managing, supervising and at times participating in the workload, assessing the service using audits or performance indicators, resolving any problems relating to medication and supervising the staff to ensure that the service provided is safe, efficient and effective. You will work with the Chief Pharmacy technician and support them in meeting the performance targets of the department, particularly expenditure targets, cost control, quality and activity targets.

You will work with the Chief Pharmacy technician and Pharmacy Technician Team Managers in workforce planning, reviewing workflow and practices to meet demand on a daily and weekly basis.

You will be responsible for the management of pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants and pre‑registration trainees at base and across site.

You will establish and maintain effective communication with all members of the Pharmacy Team and the wider multi‑disciplinary teams within the Trust, cascade the information to pharmacy staff and implement at short notice any necessary adjustments to the working practices required to support the Trust with managing the bed pressure situation in an efficient and effective manner. This may result in challenges from the Pharmacy staff, e.g. the change in practice/hours worked.

Acting as a resource for those seeking specialist operational knowledge and experience within the pharmacy department and hospital site.

You will be responsible for identifying bottlenecks and blockages in the systems and taking remedial action.

You will ensure the electronic roster and electronic staff records are kept up to date and are reviewed regularly to ensure changes are implemented.

About Humber Health Partnership

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.