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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
290-WCCS-2121
Employer
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Marys Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£37,259 - £45,356 pa inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
31/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - Surgery

Band 5

 Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.  

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.  

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

 

 

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly, dynamic, innovative  Surgical Pharmacy team dedicated to providing high quality ward based clinical pharmacy services.

We are looking for someone with passion in this area of work in hospital pharmacy. You must be an enthusiastic, motivated and a patient focused pharmacy technician dedicated to patient safety. You will work with the Surgical Pharmacy team to help implement, deliver and continually improve the medicines management to surgical wards and allied areas. You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team. You will be a pharmacy technician registered (or undergoing registration) with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). 

Typical surgical specialties you will see include: General (gastrointestinal), Bariatric, Vascular, Plastics, Orthopaedics, Major Trauma, Elderly surgical rehabilitation and Neurosurgery.

This is a full time post and the post holder will be required to participate in the weekend working and late duties as per rota. 
If you would like to discuss the role or have a visit before the interview or applying, please contact:

Narinder Tutt - Senior Lead Pharmacy Technician, Medicines Management Surgery Email: [email protected]. Phone: 0203 312 1983  or bleep:2273 (via switchboard 0203 312 6666).

Main duties of the job

  • To assist the Senior Lead Pharmacist, Surgery in promoting and developing medicines management initiatives within the surgical directorates.
  • To provide high quality, patient-focused medicines management services to adult surgical ward areas in line with departmental procedures.
  • The post holder will support the continuing drive to improve cost-effective medicines use and medicines safety within the Trust.
  • To train staff on medicines management issues where appropriate.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.  

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.  Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. 

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly,  part time or job share.  

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews  please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (pharmacy technician) or in the process of registration
  • HEE Medicines Optimisation Programme (MOP) or equivalent qualification (or will undergo the ICHNT in-house Ward Skills Training)
  • ACPT Accreditation required or will undergo CPPE ACPT course
Desirable criteria
  • Short courses relevant to practice, to include supervisory qualification such as Personal Supervisor (PS) training
  • Recognised Medicines Management qualification (Certificate of Medicines Management for Pharmacy technicians - CMMPT or equivalent)
  • Educational Supervisor or NVQ assessor to A1 standard or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria
  • At least 1 year experience of working in a UK hospital pharmacy and at least 3 months of ward- based experience
Desirable criteria
  • Significant MMPT work experience in a UK hospital
  • Practical experience with an electronic in-patient prescribing system
  • Experience of training of pharmacy, nursing or medical staff
  • Experience working as a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician (including medication history taking, reuse of patient’s own medicines, ordering medicines, patient consultations, discharge services and self-administration) in a busy clinical environment

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential criteria
  • Able to analyse and interpret information relating to medicines and their uses
  • Excellent verbal communication skills with staff and patients
  • Ability to identify the scope of a problem, consider options for solution, select solution and review outcomes; knows when and will seek support where appropriate
  • Ability to recognise own limitations
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership and delegation skills
  • Ability to use appropriate techniques in delivering training
  • Good working knowledge of MS (Microsoft) applications (Word/Excel/Power point/Teams and Outlook)

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldImproving working livesArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Disability confident employerAccredited Living Wage EmployerNHS Rainbow Badge - BronzeWe Work Flexibly

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Gavin Lawrence
Job title
Lead Pharmacist - Vascular Surgery
Email address
[email protected]
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