Senior Pharmacy Technician - Women’s and Children’s Services

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Part time

Job summary

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Pharmacy Technician for Women’s and Children’s Services. This part-time role involves delivering pharmaceutical care in a vibrant team environment within our renowned children's hospital. Ideal candidates will bring a commitment to patient-focused care and possess essential pharmacy qualifications.

Qualifications

• Experience in busy hospital dispensary and supervising pharmacy staff required.
• Medicines management and checking of prescriptions experience is essential.
• Ability to deliver training and manage ward stock control.

Responsibilities

• Provide a safe, efficient, and accurate ward-based pharmacy service.
• Liaise closely with pharmacy, nursing, and medical staff.
• Dispel prescriptions and manage stock control on wards.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication

Teamwork

Accuracy

Problem Solving

Education

Registered as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council

NVQ Pharmacy services Level 3

Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification

Tools

Epic computer system

Job description

Senior Pharmacy Technician - Women’s and Children’s Services

NHS AfC: Band 5

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 28 hours per week (Shift Pattern: 28 hours per week to be agreed over 4/5 days for weekdays, with 9am-5pm for rostered weekends and bank holidays) Job ref 196-LIS9648

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Evelina London Children's Hospital Town London Salary £35,964 - £43,780 p.a. inc. HCA (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 02/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 10/07/2025

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

Senior Pharmacy Technician - Women’s and Children’s Services

We have a vacancy for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacy technician looking for a new challenge to develop your career in a women’s and children’s pharmacy setting .

Working as part of the ward based team at St Thomas' Hospital and Evelina London Children's Hospital Pharmacy. You will play a role in the delivery of pharmaceutical care to a diverse group of women's and paediatric patients. Working in a structured environment providing support to the wider team to meet key directorate targets.

If you are seeking to expand your clinical skills and help to improve patient satisfaction and make a difference then this is your ideal job.

The post offers a chance to contribute to the continued development of pharmacy services within the women's and children's services

Closing date: 2nd July 2025 at midnight

Interview date: 10th July 2025

If applying, please make sure you are available to attend in person for an interview on this date as alternative dates cannot usually be offered.

Main duties of the job

The post is suitable for patient-focused technician with good interpersonal skills who are sensitive to the needs of the patients and their carers. You would require excellent communication and team working skills. Able to work independently and be flexible to adapt to the changing service demands meeting any set deadlines. The role is embedded in the ward teams by supporting our nursing/medical and pharmacy teams to resolve any medicines management issues.

You will be responsible for providing a safe, efficient and accurate ward-based pharmacy service for hospital inpatients by liaising closely with pharmacists, nursing and medical staff on wards.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

The Pharmacydepartments of Guys and St Thomas’ provide safe and effective pharmaceutical ward and dispensary services to the many inpatients and outpatients of the Trust’s many specialities.

The post holder must demonstrate their commitment to upholding the Trust values, within which we carry out our roles:

Ambitious – we innovate and strive for excellence

Inclusive – we respect each other and work collaboratively

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Tasks and responsibilities include:

• Dispensing
• Final checking of screened prescriptions
• Assessing of patients own medicines
• Patients counselling
• Managing ward(s) stock control
• Audit and project work
• Supervising and training of junior team member(s)
• Participating in the weekend rota

You will already hold a recognised accredited checking pharmacy technician (ACPT) qualification.

Person specification

Skills

• Dispense accurately to set standards
• Counsel and give advice to patients/their carers on their/child’s medications
• Final check of clinically screened prescriptions
• Accurately record patient medicine reconciliation
• Accurately assess suitability of patient’s own medication
• Work independently and accurately under pressure
• Prioritise and organise routine daily tasks using own initiative
• Plan, organise and deliver, training and assessment
• Motivate self and others
• Communicate routine, more complex and sensitive information effectively using clear written and spoken English and overcome barriers to understanding, to a diverse group of staff patients and carers
• Clearly and accurately complete complex routine and non-routine documentation
• Work to set procedures
• Pharmacy computer and IT skills
• Write standard operating procedures
• Using Epic computer system and electronic prescribing and medicine administrations (ePMA) records eg Medchart/EPR/e-noting/EPIC
• Delivering induction and training
• Undertake recruitment and selection of pharmacy staff
• Working in multi-disciplinary teams

Experience

• Working in a busy hospital dispensary
• Medicines management experience at ward based
• Supervising and mentoring pharmacy staff
• Checking of medicines in a hospital pharmacy environment
• Supervising the day to day running of a dispensary
• Stock level management and maintenance
• Working with Epic (Electronic Prescribing and Administration System) software or equivalent

Qualifications

• Registered as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• NVQ Pharmacy services Level 3 plus an accredited underpinning knowledge
• Holds a recognised Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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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.

Name Hannah Legg Job title Principal Paediatric Pharmacy Technician Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02071889152 Additional information

Simran Uppal

Lead Women’s Services Pharmacist - Women’s Services [e-mail]

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