Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Technician Procurement
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 sessions per week (9 to 5.15)
- Job ref
- 455-NLFT-0370
- Employer
- North London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Ann's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum including outer HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Lead Pharmacy Technician: Procurement & Distribution Manager
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
This is a fantastic opportunity for a GPhC registered Pharmacy Technician with strong procurement experience and an interest in mental health, to join our dynamic and innovative pharmacy team. The pharmacy team is currently undergoing significant developments, including the implementation of ePMA and new clinical roles to improve medicines optimisation.
The department has plenty of opportunities to develop your skills and career with us.
You will need to be organised, analytical and motivated with excellent communication and problem solving skills, as well the ability to make decisions under pressure.
Main duties of the job
To manage the pharmacy procurement and distribution service for NLFT.
To maintain and develop systems for pharmacy procurement and distribution, in order to provide a high quality, efficient service to service users including off site clinics.
To manage the Pharmacy / medicines management IT system.
To provide management, supervision, training and development to Pharmacy Technicians, Assistants and trainees.
To deputise for the Chief Pharmacy Technician when required, including the day to day management and responsibility for the operational supply of medicines to wards, units or community teams and deployment of staff ensuring an effective and efficient pharmacy technical supply service.
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:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
Why NLFT?
- We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
- We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
- NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
- Excellent internal staff network
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
To manage the pharmacy procurement and distribution service, ensuring:
high quality service provision, effective risk management, clinical governance and adherence to relevant legislation, regulations, policies, procedures and guidelines.
- implementation of contracts and contract review mechanisms, including developing methods of increasing savings and ensuring value for money.
- management of medicine shortages in close liaison with senior pharmacists to provide optimum available products and reduce clinical risks to patients.
- the trust is exposed to the minimum financial risk by operating robust systems.
- the trust is exposed to minimum clinical risk by purchasing from reputable suppliers and that unlicensed products are identified for Quality Control.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GPhC Registered
- Diploma from CIPS
- Management Training
Desirable criteria
- NVQ Assessor qualification
- Medicines management qualification
- ACPT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant UK hospital experience
- Procurement & distribution experience
- Management / supervisory experience
Desirable criteria
- Mental health experience
- Experience of using CareFlow
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective written and communication skills
- Leadership skills
- Problem solving skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Neelam Sharma
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0203 317 7845
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