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Pharmacy Technician
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 1 year (End October 2026)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0098
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Pancras Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£54,320 - £60,981 Per annum including HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/06/2025 23:59

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North London NHS Foundation Trust logo

Lead Pharmacy Technician - Digital Medicines

NHS AfC: Band 7

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

Job overview

To lead on maintaining day-to-day operations of Digital Medicines systems, such as the electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) system including change and incident management, providing training and day-to-day support to users, working alongside the Digital Lead Pharmacist and Digital Medicines team.

To support with the implementation of new Digital Medicines systems such as EPS & Automated Medication Cabinets

Main duties of the job

Please see details of main duties for the post in the Job Description and Person Specification attached 

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:  

  1.  We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
  2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
  3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
  4.  We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology. 

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see details of the job description and main responsibilities of the post in the Job Description and Person Specification attached  

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Pharmacy Technician
Desirable criteria
  • Years of NHS experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Digital Pharmacy systems knowledge and experience
  • Management and leadership experience
Desirable criteria
  • Formal qualification relating to digital systems

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Attention to detail & accuracy

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Saya Patel
Job title
Lead Pharmacy Technician - Digital Medicines
Email address
saya.patel1@nhs.net
Telephone number
0203 317 7371
Additional information

Hetal Halai, Lead Pharmacist - Digital Medicines , 0203177371

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