Chief Pharmacy Technician

Go back Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chief Pharmacy Technician

The closing date is 02 July 2025

This new and exciting role has been created to join the Senior Pharmacy Management Team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to help shape the pharmacy workforce of the future. Being professionally and operationally responsible for the technician and assistant workforce (over 150 WTE staff), the successful candidate will help provide strategic leadership for this staff group across all sites within the Trust.
A strategic thinker, who demonstrates exceptional leadership skills and operational knowledge of hospital pharmacy services, along with in-depth knowledge of the pharmacy workforce issues will excel in this role.
Working locally, regionally and nationally, the successful candidate will ensure that the STH Pharmacy Technician/Assistant workforce is at the forefront of workforce development initiatives. Advising the Chief Pharmacist directly on all professional issues, the post holder will ensure that all legal and statutory requirements are met.
Main duties of the job

Strategic Management and Business Planning Professional Leadership Operational Management - dispensary and medicines management teams Workforce Development Governance and Patient Safety Management responsibilities for a senior team (1wte band 8a, 3wte band 7) covering all hospital sites.
About us

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. It is an energetic and vibrant organisation that places patients and staff at the heart of everything they do. We provide a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, spinal cord injuries, renal and cardiothoracic services.
As a teaching hospital, we have a great commitment to education, training, and development of staff, including undergraduates from many professions. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it services. The NHS offers a wide range of benefits including pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance and career, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
The trust will give you time to use your skills and help you develop a fulfilling career as well as a commitment to support flexible working and can support such things as, part time hours, condensed hours, or job share. These options are not exhaustive, and we would encourage candidates to state any forms of flexible working they would like to explore in their application.
Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for more details or Contact Graham Marsh (Chief Pharmacist).
Person Specification

Qualifications

Approved or recognised course/qualification meeting the requirements for registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Evidence of relevant professional learning and development, preferably to postgraduate/masters level.
Formal project management and/or quality improvement qualification.
Accredited Checking Technician Status or equivalent qualification.
Experience

Significant experience in hospital pharmacy at a senior level, managing complex services across multiple teams
Highly developed broad based operational/management knowledge acquired from experience and/or post graduate study
Experience of working with a wide range of other professionals in integrated teams.
Significant experience of working with and applying Human Resource procedures, including managing attendance, recruitment, disciplinary policies and supporting staff wellbeing
Proven track record of delivering and implementing change to education and training programmes.
Experience of training/teaching pharmacy staff.
Experience of developing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) audit, and service review.
Experience of setting and monitoring standards for delivery of pharmacy services
Experience of Budget Management.
Skills and Knowledge

Knowledge of key NHS policy and implications on pharmacy services
Understanding of the pharmacy role as part of the Integrated Care Boards (ICB).
Knowledge of pharmacy technician professional practice at national, regional and local levels.
Have excellent communication skills; non-verbal, verbal and written in order to communicate with a broad spectrum of people (from senior directorate managers to members of the public). demonstrable from previous experience.
Demonstrates ability to communicate to a wide range of stakeholders and present evidence of service delivery information.
Ability to analyse and interpret information when undertaking investigations of incidents, complaints and HR investigations demonstrable from previous experience.
Proven ability to develop skill mix in pharmacy services.
Ability to be proactive in networking and benchmarking with colleagues across all healthcare organisations, demonstrable from previous experience.
Empathetic and sensitive to customer needs (patients and staff) demonstrable from previous experience.
High degree of self-motivation and able to motivate others.
Excellent interpersonal skills - ability to form positive relationships at all levels
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£62,215 to £72,293 a yearper annum pro rata for part time staff

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