Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Additional Weekend, Late and Bank holiday commitment)
- Job ref
- 271-CCS-7666753-A
- Employer
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Ormond Street Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £75,328 - £86,114 Inclusive per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/05/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Pharmacy Technician
Band 8b
Job overview
At Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy Senior Leadership Team. This post will be responsible for the operational assurance of core pharmacy services including supply and logistics for medicines.
We are looking for a highly skilled, dynamic and enthusiastic individual to help support our journey as we look forward to the future with the aim to develop our existing workforce and services, as well as welcoming new members to the team.
GOSH Pharmacy provides medicines for supporting NHS, International & Private Care and Clinical Trials for our children. We have been on a transformation journey to modernise the pharmacy service and facilities to deliver expert care to our paediatric population.
*** previous applicants need not apply ***
Main duties of the job
Working with the senior leadership team, you will be directly supporting and leading on projects in updating of pharmacy (including support on creation of an independent Outpatient Pharmacy) and Trust infrastructure on automation of medicines supply (including provisions of Automated Dispensing Cabinets and Robotic Dispensing Systems).
You will have the opportunity to be involved in the New GOSH Children’s
Cancer Centre development, which will house the new Outpatient Pharmacy facility and help continue to drive improvement.
Leadership of our team of Pharmacists, Technicians and Assistants on the digital pathway for Pharmacy is key at future proofing our service in preparation for the coming new Children’s Cancer Centre.
You will be responsible for ensuring that procurement, dispensing, and supply activities comply with all current statutory obligations, including Good Distribution Practice (GDP).
The Chief Pharmacy Technician role leads the service supporting:
- Regulatory Compliance (GPhC/CQC/ MHRA/NHSE QA)
- Operational Leadership
- Innovative practice
- Quality Improvement (e.g. EPIC Digital Closed loop systems)
- Senior Leadership and Management at an organisational level in respect to Pharmaceutical Operations
- Quality Management System Improvement
- Providing professional leadership and support to pharmacy technicians Trust-wide
Working for our organisation
We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as the communities we serve, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including people with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, people with a disability, and people from LGBTQ+ communities. By growing an ever more diverse workforce, we’ll have a greater range of perspectives and knowledge, meaning that we can provide the children and young people at our hospital with even better care.
Our hospital is committed to creating an environment that is open and inclusive. Our staff are encouraged to engage with colleagues through the following networks: REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) ENABLED (Enhancing Abilities & Leveraging Disabilities Network), PRIDE and Women’s networks; all of which are sponsored by a member of our Executive Management Team.
We want to ensure that all of our people, regardless of their background, are seen and heard. We want to attract applicants that share our commitment to inclusion and that understand diversity is a strength that is embraced and valued.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Combined Values
Essential criteria
- Combined Values
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential criteria
- Post graduate degree or equivalent experience in relevant subject
- BTEC and L3 NVQ Diploma in Pharmacy Services (QCF) qualification, or equivalent to gain registration with GPhC
- GPhC registered Pharmacy Technician
- Management qualification holder or working towards one
- Accredited Checking Technician
- Substantial broad-based post qualification experience within in the acute NHS sector
- NVQ Internal Quality Assurer (IQA)
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good Dispensing Practice, Good Clinical Practice
- Knowledge of Pharmacy computer systems and their affective application
- National developments in Medicines Management
- Knowledge and experience of pharmacy stock control procedures including stock reconciliation and management of discrepancies
- Experience of financial requirements for payment of invoices and knowledge of Standing Financial Instructions
- Experience of managing hospital pharmacy patient services
- Experience of training and staff appraisal, management of poor performance and other disciplinary issues
- Experience as an Educational Programme Director
- Knowledge of medicine procurement for children
- Substantial operational management experience
- Identifies and implements best pharmacy practice in all relevant areas
- Substantial service management and leadership experience including working as part of a senior multidisciplinary team
- Significant experience of, and recognised expertise in, pharmacy patient services leadership and delivery
Desirable criteria
- Experience of strategic planning of pharmacy services and effective implementation of resultant plans
- Significant experience of, and recognised expertise in, medicines procurement and distribution leadership and delivery.
- Track record of effective use of IT to enhance service quality and efficiency
- Budget management experience and excellent knowledge of financial management principles
- Pharmaceutical care issues in Paediatrics
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Management and supervision of staff
- Excellent communication skills in both written and verbal formats
- Ability to work effectively under pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and accuracy
- Able to lead, manage and develop a senior team
- Ability to analyse and critically appraise operational data
- Ability to utilise email, word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software packages in order to enhance work efficiency and to generate solutions to complex problems
- Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures at a directorate level
- Good time management and organisational skills; able to prioritise and manage own work effectively and that of the team
- Ability to monitor, review and develop service standards
- Data analysis for reports and presentation
- Computer skills including Power Point, Excel, Word
- Identifies a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical services
- Delegates authority appropriately
- Demonstrates advanced level of reasoning and judgement in pharmacy practice
- Ability to manage difficult and ambiguous problems
- Ability to influence practice at a Departmental, Divisional and Trust level
- Enhances the quality of patient care and demonstrates a whole-system patient-focussed approach
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of clinical governance
- Demonstrable use of audit to improve practice
- Demonstrates ability to co-ordinate services to achieve desired outcomes in the face of diverse unavoidable pressures
Desirable criteria
- Ability to implement strategies to meet Trust and pharmacy priorities
- Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services
- Demonstrates innovation
- Recognised as a national leader and acts as a role model for other practitioners
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
- Abraar Syed
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Operational Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Or
Jayne Ballinger, Chief Pharmacist ( [email protected] )
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