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

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our busy and friendly dispensary team at Kingston Hospital.

You will be working alongside an experienced team in a technician-led dispensary on providing a comprehensive dispensary service to a wide range of specialties including surgery, medicine, elderly care, critical care and our community services.

In addition to excellent communication and team-working skills, you must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

We use the skills of our pharmacy staff, working as a team, to provide a high quality, professional pharmacy service to patients.  The service is responsive to the needs of patients and is developing the use of IT to improve patient safety and efficiency.

Applications from candidates with either a hospital or community background are welcomed.

Main duties of the job

To supervise the dispensary technical team and oversee the day to day running of the dispensary services.

Responsible to lead the team and implement changes that benefit the Department.

Deputise for the Chief Technician for allocated duties in their absence.

Deputise for the Chief Technician - Dispensary Manager in their absence in supervising the dispensary.

Responsible for making sure all duties are carried out in a timely manner and deadlines are met.

Assist in the development and implementation of SOP’s.

To coordinate and investigate stock checks and discrepancies by completing the daily stock check reports.

To assist in the induction of new starters and staff rotating through both departments.

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

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