Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

• This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and motivated aspiring Chief Technician with a passion for digital healthcare, who is looking to take their next career step.
• We are looking for a Senior Pharmacy Technician with experience of EPMA systems, who has a demonstrable track record of excellent service delivery with good communication and organisational skills. 
• You will join our established Pharmacy Digital and Informatics team and work together to improve patient safety and optimise system medication pathways.
• This is an ideal opportunity for a pharmacy technician with an interest in digital healthcare to further develop specialist skills in clinical EPMA systems, informatics and digital transformation, within a supportive team environment.
• You will be expected to participate in the weekend, bank holiday and late duty rotas.
• For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Annette Nicholson, Principal Pharmacist ePMA & Digital Medicines Management on 020 8934 2090 
• Previous applications need not apply.
• The Trust supports flexible working; please contact us for advice, prior to submitting your application, if seeking hybrid working.

Main duties of the job

• To help maintain and optimise our Trust Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) systems as an integral member of the Pharmacy Digital Team. 
• Provide expert training and support to multidisciplinary staff using the Trust Oracle Cerner Millenium EPMA system.
• Working with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement system changes to promote safe prescribing in line with Trust clinical guidelines. 
• Work in collaboration with the wider Trust Digital Teams on projects, system upgrades and configuration and regression testing.
• Design, build and implement prescribing protocols, order sets and clinical decision support tools in line with Trust guidelines.
• Contribute to medication safety initiatives through system design, audit and continuous quality improvement.

Working for our organisation

Kingston & Richmond NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy Department provides a high quality, professional pharmacy service and has a strong track record in delivery quality and innovative services. 

Both the Pharmacy Department and the Trust have a long-standing reputation for being a friendly and rewarding place to work.

Kingston Hospital was commended for becoming the first acute NHS trust in London to receive an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the CQC for being well-led and has consistently been one of the best performing NHS trusts in London for achieving quality and productivity targets.

Our pharmacy team are welcoming and friendly with a focus on ensuring our patients receive excellent care whilst taking care of each other.

The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other.  

To support this, our four values are that we are all:

Compassionate – We treat everyone with kindness, understanding and empathy.

Inclusive – We are respectful, fair and open, embracing everyone’s unique contribution.

Collaborative - We work together across our teams and with our partners and are helpful, positive and supportive.

Inspiring - We strive for the best for patients, staff and partners and are always learning and improving.