NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area: Acute General Medicine
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 196-LIS9464
Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: St Thomas' Town, London
Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 p.a. inc HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/05/2025 23:59
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory, and cardiovascular services.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities, and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high-quality care.
Job overview
To provide a comprehensive pharmaceutical Medicines Management service for the Acute Medicine directorate. This includes accurate ward-based pharmacy support, timely medication reconciliation, and facilitating safe and efficient supplies for patient discharge. The role supports the dispensary in dispensing, accuracy checking, and patient counselling. Additionally, it involves contributing to service development, audit, and education.
We are expanding our technical pharmacy team to support the growing demands of Acute Medicine and to enhance the development opportunities for our staff.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Pharmacy Technician in Medicines Management, you will:
* Provide ward-based medicines management services, including medication history-taking, discharge planning, and patient counselling.
* Support the safe and effective supply of medicines through dispensing and accuracy checking.
* Participate in audits, quality improvement initiatives, and training of rotational staff and trainees.
* Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to optimise patient care in Acute Medicine.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is among the largest in the UK and is recognised for its clinical excellence, teaching, and research. This merger enhances collaboration across services and research, enabling innovation and ensuring exceptional care for patients with complex conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
Service Delivery and Operational Management
* Provide ward-based Medicines Management services:
o Assess Patients’ Own Drugs for suitability.
o Record accurate medication reconciliation for admitted patients.
o Ensure timely, cost-effective medication supply using the department’s MMP system.
o Dispense and perform final accuracy checks on clinically screened prescriptions.
o Support discharge processes by reviewing and ordering TTO medications.
* Maintain medication storage, stock control, and risk management:
o Conduct Controlled Drugs checks as per Trust policy.
o Review ward stock lists to reduce risks and wastage.
o Support cycle counts and automated dispensing tasks.
o Replenish compliance aids and provide patient information leaflets as needed.
* Liaise with pharmacists to highlight clinical issues and prioritise medication needs based on urgency.
* Contribute to operational improvements, such as supporting actions related to drug recalls.
Human Resource Management
* Supervise rotational pharmacy technicians, trainee pharmacy technicians, and trainee pharmacists on request, ensuring high standards of work.
* Support the induction and training of rotational staff and trainee pharmacy technicians.
* Participate in recruitment and selection processes when required.
Quality Management and Governance
* Assist in collecting workload quality and financial data for audit and service improvement.
* Contribute to incident investigations and help implement learning from errors.
* Ensure compliance with Trust and departmental health and safety policies.
Education and Training
* Participate in delivering Medicines Management training to staff, including non-pharmacy colleagues (e.g., nurses).
* Contribute to assessments and appraisals for pharmacy staff, including support for NVQ and QCF qualifications.
* Undertake mandatory CPD and professional development as per GPhC requirements.
Research and Development
* Collect and analyse data for audits to measure and improve service delivery.
* Support initiatives to develop and implement evidence-based practices.
Pharmacy Practice
* Participate in the department’s out-of-hours rota, including weekends and holidays.
* Ensure tasks align with departmental SOPs and Trust policies.
* Actively participate in multidisciplinary team discussions to optimise patient care and medication therapies.
Person specification
Knowledge/Qualifications
* Registered with GPhC or eligible to register
* Medicines management experience in award-based setting
* BTEC Pharmaceutical Science / GPhC-accredited Level 3 Pharmacy Technician Qualification or equivalent
* Practice supervisor /Educational supervisor or equivalent
Experience
* Experience of hospital pharmacy dispensary operations
* Experience of supervising staff and workload on a day-to-day basis
* Ability to work to set procedures under pressure
* Experience of counselling patients on the use of medications
* Ability to develop and deliver competency-based training assessments
* Ability to write or contribute to SOPs
* Experience of appraising staff and setting performance objectives
* Familiarity with hospital pharmacy systems, including EPIC
* Experience of participation in project and audit work
Skills
* Demonstrates ability to dispense accurately to set standards
* Mandatory professional CPD as defined by the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Recruitment and selection experience
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects, and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures, and practices to ensure that all employees, patients, and carers are treated equitably according to their needs.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
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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.
Name: Ashna Smith
Job title: Principal Pharmacy Technician Acute medicine
Email address: ashna.smith@gstt.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0207 188 5005
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