Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including weekends and bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 200-NN-6926129-BC-Z-A
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £30,039 - £31,088 p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Inner)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Assistant Technical Officer – Rotational
Band 3
*The pay scales advertised have been confirmed by NHS England, we are awaiting confirmation of when these will be reflected. The new scales can be found here: Pay scales for 2024/25 | NHS Employers
Job overview
Band 3 SATO – Rotational
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated Band 3 Senior Assistant Technical Officer (SATO) to join our medicines optimisation team. You will currently be an Assistant Technical Officer preferably in a hospital setting looking to expand your role and knowledge. If you have excellent proven organisation and communication skills as well as attention to detail and a good knowledge of pharmacy IT systems then this exciting new role could be the job for you.
Main duties of the job
Your duties will include:
• Day to day running of the satellite dispensing unit
• Rapid TTO turnaround to maintain patient flow
• Assist with the reporting of high cost medicines used within the
directorate to ensure the timely reimbursement of income from our
commissioners
• Assist the ward based pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at ward
level maintaining the outsourced blister pack service
• Participate in dispensary based duties on a rota system
• Participate in late evening rota, weekends and bank holiday rota.
Working for our organisation
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.
Person specification
Experince
Essential criteria
- Work experience, preferably in a pharmaceutical environment, involving dispensing
- Ward top up experience
- Proven stock control experience & knowledge
- Proven experience of efficient dispensing
Desirable criteria
- Ward /clinical experience
- Proven experience of supervising staff and workload on a day-to-day basis
- Previous experience of participation in audit
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Grade A-C including maths, english and science
- General education qualifications.
Desirable criteria
- Further education qualifications NVQ level 2 Pharmacy Services
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective customer care skills – able to work to meet the needs of customers of the department and to meet the standards of the trusts code of practice at all times
- Competent in all areas of dispensing practice
Desirable criteria
- Ability to train and assess others
- Familiarity with JAC computer system
We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust – being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful – and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.
Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.
If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:
- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image
As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.
Telephone: 02082963786
Text: 07501066267
Email: [email protected].
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Applicant requirements
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
- Hannah Boylan
- Job title
- Pharmacy Operational Manager - Clinical Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087251572
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