Job summary
We're thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity to join our team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals as a Principal Pharmacy Technician--a pivotal leadership role at the heart of our pharmacy services.
As the most senior pharmacy technician in our department, you'll take strategic and operational responsibility for our Dispensaries, Stores, Production Unit, and Pharmacy Computer Services. You'll be a key member of the Pharmacy Leadership Team, championing the pharmacy technician profession and shaping the future of our service.
This is a particularly dynamic time to join us. With our new automation system launching in the dispensary from July 2024, and plans underway for a new modular aseptic unit in Q1 of this financial year, you'll be stepping into a role that's both forward-looking and full of opportunity.
We're looking for someone with substantial experience in senior pharmacy roles--someone who thrives on leading teams, driving improvement, and nurturing talent. You'll bring a strong focus on quality, safety, and professional development, and be passionate about delivering outstanding care through innovation and collaboration.
Main duties of the job
To support the Assistant Chief Pharmacist - Operational Services manager to deliver and develop operational Pharmacy services to the Trust via the management of teams of staff within the following operational areas:
- Pharmacy Supply Services
- Purchasing and Stores
- Production Services
- Quality Assurance & Control Services
- Pharmacy Computer Services.
- To manage, develop and provide professional leadership to the pharmacy technician workforce in delivering optimal and efficient pharmaceutical services.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for detailed roles and responsibilities.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for detailed roles and responsibilities.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BTEC/NVQ 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- MSc in Pharmacy / Medicines Management or equivalent experience in Pharmacy
- Accredited Checking Qualification
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable
- Leadership/Management Qualifications
- Further postgraduate studies
- Active membership of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) and other relevant organisations
Other
Essential
- Evidence of successful team leadership
- Frequent requirement to concentrate where work pattern is unpredictable
- Ability to tolerate frequent interruptions
- Ability to deal constructively with conflict, verbal and formal complaints, stress, verbal aggression
- Driving licence and car ownership
Experience
Essential
- Operational pharmacy knowledge from aspects of career to date
- Considerable demonstrable experience of hospital pharmacy.
- Significant supervisory experience
- Experience of managing staff performance e.g. experience in appraisals and personal development planning
- Experience of change management against clinical and financial criteria and in complex environments
- Experience of recruitment and selection processes including chairing an interview panel
- Significant recent experience of planning and improving quality of pharmacy services provided
- Experience of completing audits and implementing improvements
- Experience of writing and presenting reports and papers to committees and panels
- Writing and disseminating policies and procedures
- Experience in dealing with difficult or complex situations
Desirable
- Teaching experience
- Evidence of extended roles
- Evidence of working within regulatory frameworks including working with quality management systems
- Experience of specialist work within an area of pharmacy
- Evidence-based practice.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrate an understanding of current pharmacy / NHS issues
- Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice Application Information and Good Clinical Practice principles
- Excellent interpersonal, motivational, organisational, analytical and communication skills
- Professional independence and personal initiative
- Highly organised, able to prioritise and manage own and others time effectively
- Ability to work under a high level of pressure
- Frequent requirement to sit in a restricted position using keyboard
- Gain co-operation and/or agreement from others by negotiation and persuasion
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BTEC/NVQ 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- MSc in Pharmacy / Medicines Management or equivalent experience in Pharmacy
- Accredited Checking Qualification
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable
- Leadership/Management Qualifications
- Further postgraduate studies
- Active membership of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) and other relevant organisations
Other
Essential
- Evidence of successful team leadership
- Frequent requirement to concentrate where work pattern is unpredictable
- Ability to tolerate frequent interruptions
- Ability to deal constructively with conflict, verbal and formal complaints, stress, verbal aggression
- Driving licence and car ownership
Experience
Essential
- Operational pharmacy knowledge from aspects of career to date
- Considerable demonstrable experience of hospital pharmacy.
- Significant supervisory experience
- Experience of managing staff performance e.g. experience in appraisals and personal development planning
- Experience of change management against clinical and financial criteria and in complex environments
- Experience of recruitment and selection processes including chairing an interview panel
- Significant recent experience of planning and improving quality of pharmacy services provided
- Experience of completing audits and implementing improvements
- Experience of writing and presenting reports and papers to committees and panels
- Writing and disseminating policies and procedures
- Experience in dealing with difficult or complex situations
Desirable
- Teaching experience
- Evidence of extended roles
- Evidence of working within regulatory frameworks including working with quality management systems
- Experience of specialist work within an area of pharmacy
- Evidence-based practice.
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrate an understanding of current pharmacy / NHS issues
- Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice Application Information and Good Clinical Practice principles
- Excellent interpersonal, motivational, organisational, analytical and communication skills
- Professional independence and personal initiative
- Highly organised, able to prioritise and manage own and others time effectively
- Ability to work under a high level of pressure
- Frequent requirement to sit in a restricted position using keyboard
- Gain co-operation and/or agreement from others by negotiation and persuasion
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
