Senior Pharmacy Technician (Rotational)

University College London Hospitals; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Pharmacy Technician to join University College London Hospitals. The successful candidate will support patient services and work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to deliver safe and efficient pharmaceutical services. Join a leading trust dedicated to high-quality patient care and innovative practices.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Pharmacy Technician is required.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to work in a team.
• Awareness of NHS procedures and standards.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate supply of medicines via Homecare services.
• Ensure suppliers meet National Key Performance Indicators.
• Participate in purchasing and invoice processing.

Skills

Organisational Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Education

Pharmacy Technician Qualification

Job description

Client:

University College London Hospitals

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

93552affadb4

Job Views:

5

Posted:

02.07.2025

Expiry Date:

16.08.2025

Job Description:

Job overview

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Pharmacy Technician (s) to join our Procurement, Homecare, Patient Services and Clinical Support teams in a rotational post. We are looking for enthusiastic technician(s) with excellent organisational skills together with a desire to provide a high quality, safe and efficient service to our patients and to our pharmacy sites.

The successful candidate(s) will work within a multidisciplinary team which includes technicians, clinical pharmacists, nurses, doctors, clinical homecare lead and within the pharmacy procurement team.

Main duties of the job

Key responsibilities will be:

Facilitate the supply of medicines to patients receiving their medication via the Homecare
Service
To ensure suppliers work within the parameters of the National Key Performance Indicators
To purchase medicines for the trust and ensure suppliers receive orders accurately and on time.
To support account management and participate with the administrative duties in processing invoices and resolving invoice queries from suppliers
To ensure outstanding orders are expedited to reduce any stock outs and to highlight potential shortages to the procurement team
To support the purchasing of medicines to our outsourced Out-patients Pharmacies
Respond to any queries from within pharmacy dispensary sites
To ensure that procedures relating to good dispensing practice are followed and to encourage and maintain high standards and orderly methods of working.
To encourage and support compliance with the formulary and dispensary policies.
To maintain labelling standards.
To participate in the dispensing and checking of outpatient, inpatient, stock prescriptions and to support the delivery of the NPD scheme.
To participate in the HEE or local London Region checking accreditation scheme.

To be responsible for the day-to-day maintenance of the robotic dispensing system.

Develop and introduce systems to enhance the safe, efficient and timely provision of medicines management to the Directorate, in conjunction with their Clinical Pharmacists.
Provide an enhanced pharmaceutical ward stock management service.
To act as an accredited medicines management technician.
Support the delivery, development, and evaluation of systems to support medicines reconciliation.
Facilitate the dispensary process for Directorate discharges, when necessary, to support the achievement of Trust and Department of Health targets.
Liaise with pharmacy, nursing, medical and other ward staff in order to facilitate the medicines management process for the Directorate.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological,gastrointestinaland oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclearmedicineand pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

UCLH Pharmacy provides a comprehensive array of services with the overall aim of ensuring safe, effective and economical use of medicines throughout the Trust, and supporting education, training and research. Pharmacy is closely involved in all stages of medicines use, from negotiating contracts for the purchase of medicines through to assessing the outcomes of medicines in the clinical setting, and across all stages in-between.

The UCLH Pharmacy Department has close working relationships with the local hospital pharmacy departments at the Royal Free and The Whittington Hospitals. This relationship has resulted in centralisation of some key backroom operational services such as manufacturing, repacking and education & training, whilst focussing local clinical services directly towards improving patient care.

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Created on 02/07/2025 by TN United Kingdom