Chief Pharmacy Technician - Stores

Join us at an exciting point in the strategic development of our pharmacy supply and distribution services. As Chief Pharmacy Technician - Stores, you will combine operational leadership with service improvement, workforce development and the effective use of pharmacy systems and automation. You will help shape new ways of working, ensuring our medicines supply service is safe, efficient, responsive and ready for the future. We are looking for an experienced and motivated Pharmacy Technician who is ready to step into a senior leadership role and help shape the development and delivery of a new centralised stores and over-labelling unit ensuring safe, efficient and responsive medicines supply and distribution service across our sites. The post will combine operational leadership with service improvement, workforce development and the effective use of pharmacy systems and automation.,

• Deliver an effective, efficient, high-quality medicines distribution service meeting all professional and regulatory standards across Imperial College Healthcare sites.
• Ensure a flexible service responsive to customer needs.
• Support the Principal Technician and Principal Pharmacist, PatientServices, in delivering the service.
• Provide daily technical leadership and professional guidance to all stores staff.
• Champion learning and quality improvement in pharmacy.
• Help audit the service against set standards and review service provision.
• Ensure safe medicines storage and cost-effective stockholding and supply from stores.
• Help maintain the quality and accuracy of system information.
• Act as systems manager for CMM, automation inc. stock robot, automated drug cabinets and temperature monitoring systems.
  
  At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. Environmental sustainabilityClimate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.