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Are you a pharmacy technician ready to step up in your career? Do you thrive in leadership and want to make a real impact on patient care?

University Hospital of North Tees Pharmacy Department is seeking a Principal Pharmacy Technician (Stores & Procurement) to lead a skilled team in delivering a safe, efficient, and high-quality medicines supply service.

Why This Role?

This is your chance to lead, innovate, and shape pharmacy distribution services. You'll be at the heart of a fast-paced, patient-focused team, ensuring vital medicines reach those who need them.

What you'll do:

• Lead and manage pharmacy technicians and assistants.
• Oversee stock control, ensuring compliance with recognised standards.
• Improve efficiency through innovation and collaboration.
• Utilise automated dispensing technology to enhance operations.
• Develop leadership skills and drive service improvements.

What you'll need:

• Accuracy Checking Qualification
• Leadership and management experience
• Stock control and distribution expertise
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones.

We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

We actively encourage staff involvement with staff networking events and staff survey

Please relate to attached job description for a more comprehensive list of duties and main responsibilities associated with this role.

• Significant experience working in a hospital pharmacy setting
• Experience of computerised stock control
• Experience of staff management in a hospital pharmacy environment
• Experience working as a member of multidisciplinary teams

• Ability to reliably check, input and record data and to identify discrepancies
• Good working knowledge of Windows based systems, and capable of using Microsoft Office application
• Focused on patient care and the efficient and effective service delivery
• Ability to communicate effectively, have a logical approach to problem solving and to form and maintain good working relationships
• Well-developed customer relations skills

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC
• Completed accuracy checking qualification or equivalent
• Management qualification or relevant experience of managing staff
• Knowledge of EMIS Ascribe dispensing system

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Main Pharmacy. University Hospital of North Tees

Main Pharmacy. University Hospital of North Tees