# Chief Pharmacy Technician -  Stores

**Company**: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Permanent
**Salary**: £58133.00 to £65261.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Help shape the future of our pharmacy supply service!

Join us at an exciting point in the strategic development of our pharmacy supply and distribution services. As Chief Pharmacy Technician - Stores, you will combine operational leadership with service improvement, workforce development and the effective use of pharmacy systems and automation. You will help shape new ways of working, ensuring our medicines supply service is safe, efficient, responsive and ready for the future.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Pharmacy Technician who is ready to step into a senior leadership role and help shape the development and delivery of a new centralised stores and over-labelling unit ensuring safe, efficient and responsive medicines supply and distribution service across our sites.

**Main duties of the job**

- Deliver an effective, efficient, high-quality medicines distribution service meeting all professional and regulatory standards across Imperial College Healthcare sites.

- Ensure a flexible service responsive to customer needs.

- Support the Principal Technician and Principal Pharmacist, Patient Services, in delivering the service.

- Provide daily technical leadership and professional guidance to all stores staff.

- Champion learning and quality improvement in pharmacy.

- Help audit the service against set standards and review service provision.

- Ensure safe medicines storage and cost-effective stockholding and supply from stores.

- Help maintain the quality and accuracy of system information.

- Act as systems manager for CMM, automation inc. stock robot, automated drug cabinets and temperature monitoring systems.

**Benefits**

- Career development, flexible working and wellbeing

- Staff recognition scheme

- Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities

**About us**

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.

## Skills

### Required
- Registered Pharmacy technician with the GPhC
- Quality Improvement qualification or equivalent experience in change management
- Accredited Checking Technician
- Significant experience at Band 6 in a relevant hospital setting
- Extensive experience within dispensary services
- Experience of line managing someone to include performance management, PDP setting and appraisal
- Experience in using data to evaluate a service
- Experience in looking after pharmacy computer systems
- Ability to work effectively under pressure
- Knowledge of quality, standard setting, benchmarking and audit
- Analytical ability for problem solving
- Ability to identify and manage risks

### Nice to have
- Management qualification e.g. Edward Jenner course or equivalent experience
- NVQ Assessor (or equivalent qualification)
- Knowledge of budget management
- Experience in delivering Clinical Trials dispensing service
- Experience with aseptic manufacturing services

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