Lead Pharmacy Technician
Barts Health NHS Trust
London, EC1A 7BE
Salary
£47,951 to £56,863
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
9 September 2026
9 days left
Job description
Are you looking for a challenge & opportunity to lead and manage the day-to-day ward based services? Do you want to work in an innovative team, contin...
To promote the responsible, safe and cost-effective provision of medication within our service including the dedicated ward based dispensaries. The post holder will manage our ward basedteam of Pharmacy Technicians, pre-registration pharmacy technicians and senior pharmacy assistants. They will be responsible for providing a patient facing, pharmacy service to cardiac and respiratory patients for our inpatient wards and organising the operational flow of theservice on a day to day basis. The post holder will be an active member of the Site Operational Team (SOT).
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.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 3 Diploma in Principles and practice for pharmacy technicians or equivalent. Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification Medicines optimisation training (MOP)
- Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- ILM Level 3 Leadership and Management qualification or equivalent
- Quality Improvement training
- Educational Supervisor, Train the trainer or equivalent qualification
- HR training
Desirable
- Level 4 - Clinical Diploma for pharmacy technicians or equivalent
- Advanced medicines optimisation training (Clinical Prioritisation)
- Change managemen
- Risk management
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of good performance in previous posts.
- Previous significant experience of working in hospital setting
- Demonstrable experience of providing pharmacy professional training, and supporting training
- Experience with undertaking appraisals, devising PDPs, setting SMART objectives and creating action plan
- Experience of collecting, manipulating and presenting data in appropriate format using Microsoft Office Word and Excel
- Experience of implementing change
- Experience of training staff, giving staff developmental feedback and implementing training plans
- Leadership experience within a pharmacy service, including organising a service on a day to -day basis
- Experience in the leadership of staff / teams
- Experience with recruitment and selection; chairing interviews
Desirable
- Experience with management of staff including experience of conducting disciplinary meetings and chairing meetings
- Evidence of project management
- Experience in Quality Improvement Initiatives
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of GPhC Revalidation requirements
- Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level
- Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g., controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
- Understanding of stock control systems
- Knowledge of drugs, side effects and where to find further information
- Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
- Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
- Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
- Able to solve problems to the level appropriate to the post
- Significant experience and knowledge of line managing staff
- Understanding of the regulations relating to managing people
- Awareness and experience dealing with risk management issues
- Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for service including quality and audit
Desirable
- Understanding of development opportunities available to pharmacy technicians
- Knowledge of using trust systems, healthroster, Trac, eforms
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to answer complex enquiries
- Demonstrates ability to supervise processes and identify deviations.
- Ability to work under pressure and to a deadline
- Able to handle hazardous materials safely according to local procedures
- Intermediate IT skills including email, word processing, spreadsheets, accurate data entry, and specialist pharmacy computer system
- Able to work effectively in stressful situations
- Able to design databases and files for information management skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills; uses emotional intelligence when dealing with others
- Ability to undertake risk assessments and implement actions
- Able to solve difficult and ambiguous problems by advanced reasoning and sound technical judgment
- Able to work and contribute within a multidisciplinary team setting
- Ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders to the department
- Supervisory and mentoring skills, including ability to give
- Demonstrates effective persuasive skills.
- Demonstrates ability to delegate effectively
- Demonstrates ability to analyse complex management information - workload and error reports.
- Evidence of project management effective feedback to all levels of staff
- Ability to manage complaints
- Ability to work collaboratively in a supportive, facilitative manner to bring about the required results
- Ability to motivate and enthuse staff reporting to the post holder and also other groups the post holder works with.
- Ability to lead by example to ensure the team maintains the highest possible professional and ethical standards
Desirable
- Demonstrates effective persuasive skills.
- Demonstrates ability to delegate effectively
- Demonstrates ability to analyse complex management information - workload and error reports.
- Evidence of project management
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Provenance
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First seen
26 August 2026
Last checked
28 August 2026
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