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Rotational Pharmacy Technician
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
308-CORP-3251
Employer
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lewisham, Waterloo, Croydon, Barking, Trust Wide
Town
London & Hithergreen
Salary
£32,073 - £39,043 per annum inclusive of HCAS (Depending on location)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/06/2026 23:59

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London Ambulance Service NHS Trust logo

Rotational Pharmacy Technician

Band 5

Our vision is to deliver outstanding emergency and urgent care whenever and wherever needed for everyone in London, 24/7, 365 days a year.  We are the busiest emergency ambulance service in the UK serving one of the world’s most dynamic and diverse cities. We provide emergency and urgent healthcare that is free to patients at the time they receive it.

We are the only NHS provider trust to serve the whole of London and the nine million people who live in, work in or visit the city.  We cover an area of 620sq miles and have more than 8,000 people who work or volunteer for us – rising to 10,000 when including bank staff and students.

We answer around two million 999 calls a year and our crews attend more than 3000 emergencies a day. Our 24-hour 111 integrated urgent care services London answer around two million calls a year.

We play a leading role in integrating access to emergency and urgent care in the capital and are striving to ensure patients receive the right response, in the right place, at the right time

Our main role is to respond to emergency 999 calls, providing medical care to patients across the capital, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Other services we offer include providing pre-arranged patient transport and finding hospital beds. Working with the police and the fire service, we are prepared for dealing with large-scale or major incidents in the capital.

 

 

Job overview

An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for Pharmacy Technicians to join the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust as rotational pharmacy technicians working across placements in IUC/111, 999 and the medicines packing unit. We are an inclusive and well respected team.  We will support you to develop and grow your pharmacy skills both practically and strategically. We are looking for GPhC registered pharmacy technicians who are dynamic and willing to learn in a new and developing environment

Interviews will be held W/C 25th and 26th June.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role include:

    • To line manage and supervise the Assistant Technical Officers
    • To support the production, training and implementation of SOPs.
    • To undertake specialist rotational placements in the Medicines Packing Unit, Medicines Governance and Integrated Urgent Care/111 (IUC/111).
    • To maintain a high standard of clinical work and pharmaceutically check and release packed drugs packs.
    • To order, receipt, dispense and check controlled drugs.
    • To work closely with the IUC lead pharmacist, Trust Medication Safety Officer, chief pharmacy technician and production manager.
    • Travel is required to other LAS Trust sites as necessary for meetings and audit work. 
    • To train and assess medicines support staff

Working for our organisation

Our organisation is driven by our strategic objectives and organisational values and we look for people who are strongly aligned with them.

The Medicines Management Team is new and growing rapidly. Our Team is tight knit and work well together.  Being new, has enabled a lot of innovation to occur and service improvement continues to blossom.  This vacancy would suit a ACT accredited pharmacy technician with a strong NHS background who is looking for a Team that can provide a high level of mentoring and support on an on-going basis.  Limited free parking is available at our current and new medicines packing units as well as good transport links

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Effectively supervise the Medicines Distribution & Medicines Store and ensuring that demand of medicines is met across the Trust and that medicines are kept in a secure manner.
  •  To use specialist knowledge, to further develop the role and understanding of medicines management within LAS.
  • To support the development and delivery medicine management training, if required and agreed for a range of individuals including clinicians and non-clinicians.
  • Support the delivery of the corporate governance and assurance requirements and any internal/external assurance processes.
  • To supervise and undertake risk management and clinical governance activities within own area of responsibility and contribute towards the delivery of the appropriate quality standards and targets outlined in the Trust’s Risk Management Strategy.

Applicants are advised to read all the information enclosed in the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.

 

Priority will be given to London Ambulance Service employees who are at risk of redundancy.

We reserve the right to close the application window early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

 

Person specification

Qualifications, Accreditations and Education

Essential criteria
  • Registered with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician
  • NVQ3, BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent
  • Successful completion of short courses relevant to practice.
  • Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience developing and writing Standard Operating Procedures
  • Experience supporting staff with training
  • Experience managing staff
  • Experience of undertaking research activities and dispensing clinical trial medicines
  • Experience of stock management
  • Experience of report writing
  • Previous work with or within an NHS Trust
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of delivering induction and competency based training
  • Experience in financial management

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Robust knowledge of the GPhC Standards of conduct, ethics and performance
  • Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of national guidelines and can relate to performance related issues in practice.
  • Knowledge of medicines management governance requirements within NHS Ambulance Services.
  • Ability to apply technical pharmacy knowledge and critically compare a range of options
  • Understanding of COSHH regulations and Health and Safety at Work Act.
  • Good prioritisation/organisation skills
  • Highly developed accuracy skills
  • Good IT skills including data entry
  • Good Analytical skills
  • Good Communication skills
  • Good Presentation skills
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of wholesale dealer activities

Personal Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Able to work autonomously and take responsibility for decisions.
  • Able to travel to different sites across LAS
  • Able to undertake further training/development as necessary.

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Taslima Hussain
Job title
Production Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07810448447

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Address
220 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8SD
Telephone
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