Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (includes 7 day working)
- Job ref
- 213-Division-A-8307328
- Employer
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess Royal University Hospital
- Town
- Orpington
- Salary
- £55,524 - £62,652 per annum, inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Dispensary Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.
Job overview
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an experienced and motivated Dispensary Manager to join our Pharmacy team at Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH).
As Dispensary Manager, you will lead the day-to-day operational delivery of the dispensary service, ensuring safe, efficient and patient-focused pharmacy services. You will manage and develop the dispensary team, oversee workload and staffing, support training and professional development, and drive improvements that enhance safety, efficiency and patient experience.
We are looking for a GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technician with substantial hospital dispensary experience. You will bring strong leadership, organisational and communication skills, together with experience managing teams and implementing service improvements.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in a busy pharmacy service while contributing to King’s commitment to outstanding care, innovation, inclusion and teamwork.
Main duties of the job
Main Duties of the Job:
- To be responsible for proposing and implementing policies in relation to the dispensary service that has an impact both within Patient Services and across the Trust
- To be responsible for the regular review of operational policies and procedures specific to the provision of the dispensary services.
- To support Patient Services, in the strategic developmental and planning of the dispensary services provision to the Trust.
- To deliver a customer-focused service to all patients who attend the Dispensary.
- To manage the Dispensary Service and all the staff who work in the dispensary.
- To be line manager for the Dispensary Services staff and take
- responsibility for all the following, according to the Trust procedures.
- Be responsible for dispensary stock control and in the return and recycling or safe disposal (as appropriate) of the drugs from wards and departments in liaison with the Distribution Manager and according to the agreed departmental policies and procedures.
Working for our organisation
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.
Our six strategic ambitions are delivering high-quality patient care; creating a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability.
We have also agreed four new organisational values – Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative – and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Description and Main Responsibilities:
• To manage the dispensary service to ensure the safe, effective and economical use of drugs for all patients in the Trust.
• To be responsible for planning and allocating work for all dispensary and rotational staff to ensure that pharmacy dispensary services are delivered at PRUH.
• To propose changes to working practices and dispensing techniques that will maximize the potential for efficiency and safety in order to reduce waiting times while working in the dispensary
• To provide Patient Services staff with details of output, performance and activity at specified time intervals in a format agreed with Principle Technician Patient Services.
• To ensure that FP10 prescriptions are stored in a secure manner and are issued in accordance with agreed procedures to appropriate staff and to ensure that prescription pad issues are monitored and that they are re-ordered in a timely fashion.
• To ensure that all dispensary staff are trained in the use of any transactional equipment used in the collection of prescription charges (if appropriate).
• To ensure effective two-way communication amongst the dispensary staff, to the rest of the pharmacy department and across the Trust as necessary.
• To ensure all dispensary staff use pharmacy computer systems correctly, that data is entered accurately from transcription sheets, prescription forms and any other prescriptions written by others and that data is stored and archived appropriately in accordance with local and regionally agreed guidelines.
• To be a member of the PRUH Pharmacy Senior Staff meeting
• To ensure that drugs (including controlled drugs) are distributed efficiently and safely by the dispensary porters and to liaise regularly with the portering services manager.
• To assist the Education & Development Chief Pharmacy Technician to manage the development programme for all pharmacy technical staff during their dispensary rotation
• To ensure that all dispensary staff are trained in the use of Omnicell Controlled Drugs Cabinet and Controlled drugs are stored, maintained and dispensed as per the legal requirements and local policies
• To ensure timely issue of all relevant rotas
• To provide operational oversight to Beckenham Beacon & Orpington dispensary in the absence of the Principle Technician Patient Services.
• To ensure that the prescription tracking system is active at all times and that ward and pharmacy staff are adequately trained in its use.
• To deputise for the Principle Technician Patient services in his/her absence.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the requirements of national organisations involved in Pharmacy Dispensary Services e.g. DoH, Regional Pharmacy Services
- Relevant post registration (qualification) experience in a hospital Pharmacy in an area relevant to practice with assessed competencies
- Relevant experience in working within a hospital dispensary environment
Skills and Competencies
Essential criteria
- Be able to make sound judgments in relation to Pharmacy Dispensary Services issues
- Be able to communicate effectively in both written and verbal formats with staff and patients
- Be able to implement and manage change
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 plus accredited underpinning knowledge (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent) or equivalent.
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Niroj Weerasooriya
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacy Technician - Operations
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01689864014
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Jennie Lee House
2nd Floor
Love Walk Lane
SE5 8AD
- Telephone
- 020 3299 0072
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