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

Are you a Hospital Pharmacy Technician or a Community Pharmacy Technician interested working in a hospital setting or want to develop in a new environment? Then this could be the role you have been looking for.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and well-motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly team.

You will primarily be working in the inpatients dispensary and there will be an opportunity to support the Emergency Department with dispensing, enhancing your current skills whilst developing new ones.  You will also be given the opportunity to complete your Practice Supervisor Training (PS).

In addition to effective communication and team-working skills, you must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and have completed, or be willing to undertake training, to become an Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT).

To support 7 day working, you will be required to work at weekends, Bank Holidays and late duty according to rotas.

Main duties of the job

To dispense and supply accurately medicines to inpatients and support the medicines optimisation service to the wards.

To assess the requirements for medicines on wards and in departments in accordance with agreed stock lists.

To dispense prescriptions for individual patients, ensuring that they are provided with the correct medicine, in the right form, in a timely manner.

To counsel patients on the safe use of medicines.

To rotate into the Emergency Department to support with the dispensing

To ensure that wastage of medicines is minimised by correct stock rotation and correct storage.

Working for our organisation

We have four core values that all colleagues are expected to demonstrate in the way they work. Shaped by staff, patients and partners, our values are the guiding principles that together define who we are, what we do and what’s most important to us. We are:

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