Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 10 months (End Date - September 2026)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2263
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Pharmacy Technician Education, Training & Workforce Development
Band 7
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
As a large multisite hospital, the pharmacy department has an ambition to provide wider technician led roles to support patient care. Developing the technician workforce is vital to advancing services provided by pharmacy in the next 10 years. Prescribing pharmacists in clinics, inpatients and homecare will all require pharmacy technicians to support new and more efficient models of working.
This is an exciting new post that will provide leadership, support development and professional career progression for technicians, and technical staff at all levels, across our dispensaries, clinical areas, aseptic manufacturing, and in the digital space within the department.
We are seeking a pharmacy technician with high standards for clinical activities when patient focused, plus experience and vision for developing and providing the leadership required to support workforce development. A strong track record in providing education and training and delivering on projects is desirable.
If you are interested in applying, and would like to know more, it is strongly advised that you discussion the role with the lead recruiter. Cross- site working will be required. The role is currently 10-month fixed term with potential to extend.
Main duties of the job
- To lead on education, training and workforce development for pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support staff across the Trust, in collaboration with the Associate Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services, Education & Training and cross-trust counterparts.
- To ensure leadership and professional support of technicians trust wide, with a focus on standardising the Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician (MMPT) service.
- To develop, maintain and implement Standard Operating Procedures related to pharmacy technical/technician services and medicines management.
- To provide a high standard of medicines management support as required, including a manageable ward-based commitment.
- To provide supervision and mentoring to pharmacy technical staff.
- To maintain practice as a medicines management technician and accredited checking pharmacy technician (ACPT).
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. Please talk to us at interview.
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
- NVQ Level 3 and/or BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science
- Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT)
- NHSE (HEE equivalent) Educational Supervisor programme completion (or working towards) or other equivalent qualification/experience.
Desirable criteria
- Appropriate leadership or management qualification.
- CAVA Level 3 (Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement) or equivalent
- Certificate in Medicines Management for Pharmacy Technicians (CMMPT) Level 5 or equivalent
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant post qualification experience of working in a UK hospital; this must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy.
- Experience in training staff, providing development feedback, and implementing training plans, including delivering pharmacy professional training and supporting NVQ training.
- Experience of managing staff and leading projects and reviewing training programmes.
- Experience of research or audit work, quality improvement projects
Desirable criteria
- Experience of abstract and poster submission for external conferences and specialist events
- Practical experience with an electronic in-patient prescribing system (Cerner)
- Use of Datix incident reporting system or equivalent
Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to justify any advice given with credible sources/evidence/data.
- Understanding of the strategic aims of the GPhC, APTUK and NHS Workforce, Training and Education in relation to E&T.
- Ability to contribute to business plans, policies and protocols.
- Ability to plan and organise a broad range of training and development activities.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lamia Samrin-Balch
- Job title
- Associate Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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