Pharmacy Technician Dispensary Manager

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a Pharmacy Technician Dispensary Manager. This exciting role offers the opportunity to lead a dynamic dispensary team, implement strategic changes, and enhance your managerial skills in a busy hospital environment. You will be instrumental in ensuring high-quality service delivery while supporting staff development. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this organization values the contributions of every team member and provides a supportive workplace culture. If you're motivated to make a difference in pharmacy services, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

NHS pension scheme

NHS discount schemes

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with strong leadership and management skills.
• Experience in change management and team management required.

Responsibilities

• Assist in planning and monitoring the dispensary service across the Trust.
• Provide leadership and ensure training for all dispensary staff.

Skills

Organisational skills

Team leadership

Staff motivation

SOP implementation

Education

Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC

Line management training/qualification

Project management

Job description

Main area: Pharmacy Technician Grade Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours:

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Late duties weekend and bank holiday working as per rotas)

Job ref: 434-SCS6795268-A

Site: Stoke Mandeville Hospital (with cross site working)

Town: Aylesbury

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 10/02/2025 23:59

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world-renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family-friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [e-mail] or phone [phone].

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust are looking to appoint a Pharmacy Technician Dispensary Manager who will join the dispensary team at both Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe Hospitals. This is a challenging and exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician who would like to develop their managerial and leadership skills and achieve their full potential working in a busy acute hospital dispensary setting.

The person appointed will support the Team Leader for Dispensary Services in the implementation of agreed strategy changes and provide direct leadership and support to their team ensuring delivery of change within set time scales.

Technicians interested in this position are required to bring with them motivation, an enthusiasm to promote new ideas, a determination to succeed in a challenging environment, the ability to remain calm under pressure and a commitment to future developments in pharmacy services.

Main duties of the job

1. Assists the Team Leader for dispensary services with the planning, development, monitoring, audit, evaluation, and delivery of the dispensary service across the Trust. Ensure that working practices meet requirements of medicines legislation, professional, local, and national guidelines and implement changes, thereby ensuring the delivery of a comprehensive, high-quality service.
2. Contribute to the strategic plan for dispensary operations including change management projects and adopting new models of working including with EPMA systems.
3. Provide professional leadership and management in all aspects of dispensary services for all staff members who work within the dispensary environment. This includes pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians, trainee pharmacists and support workers.
4. Ensure that appropriate training is provided for all staff working in the dispensary and training records are maintained and available when required.
5. Assist with stock management and financial control of costs within the dispensary service, including maintaining appropriate and efficient staffing levels, and reducing waste through the avoidable expiration of medicine and use of resources.
6. Assist the Team Leader for dispensary services to manage the day to day running of the dispensary service and rotas.
7. Deputise for the Team Leader for dispensary services, providing technical leadership.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.

Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.

We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.

Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.

We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.

We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.

We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact [e-mail] (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.

We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job descriptions and person specification attached for detailed responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC
• Line management training/qualification
• MMT/CIPs/PIPC
• Project management

Experience

• Experience of Line management
• Experience of change management
• Experience of managing a team

Skills and knowledge

• Write and implement SOPs
• Organisational skills
• Manage staff through HR processes
• Work as a team leader
• Motivate self and others

Special Requirements

• Ability to travel between sites

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.