Main area: Pharmacy
Grade Band: 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time including weekends and bank holidays)
Job ref: 200-NN-6926129-BC-Z
Employer: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Town: London
Salary: £29,485 - £31,088 Per annum including inner London HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/03/2025 23:59
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
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:
1. Day to day running of the satellite dispensing unit
2. Rapid TTO turnaround to maintain patient flow
3. Assist with the reporting of high cost medicines used within the directorate to ensure the timely reimbursement of income from our commissioners
4. Assist the ward-based pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at ward level maintaining the outsourced blister pack service
5. Participate in dispensary-based duties on a rota system
6. 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 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.
Person specification
Experience
* Work experience, preferably in a pharmaceutical environment, involving dispensing for a minimum of 1 year
* Ward top-up experience
* Proven stock control experience & knowledge
* Proven experience of efficient dispensing
* Ward/clinical experience
* Proven experience of supervising staff and workload on a day-to-day basis
* Previous experience of participation in audit
Qualifications
* GCSE Grade A-C including maths, English and science
Skills
* 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
* 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 documents you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features.
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.
Name: Hannah Boylan
Job title: Pharmacy Operational Manager - Clinical Services
Email address: Hannah.Boylan@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 02087251572
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