Dispensary Team Leader - #136453

Band: 5

Reports to: Principal Pharmacy Technician- Operations

Accountable to: Chief Pharmacist

Base: Main base site- Glenfield hospital

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and forward-thinking registered Pharmacy Technician to join our pharmacy team and lead our dispensary service at the Leicester Royal Infirmary site.

Our pharmacy department is currently undergoing a review of its staffing structure, which includes an expansion and redesign of the team. We are focused on creating more efficient and fulfilling ways of working to improve performance and outcomes.

This includes recruiting a cross-site band 6 Lead Pharmacy Technician- Dispensaries which will support the team leader to manage and improve the pharmacy service and reviewing and implementing revised ways of working to bring efficiencies.

If you would like to be part of this exciting period of change, we would love to hear from you!

We offer development and progression opportunities for our Pharmacy Technicians. We have made significant changes to expand our technical workforce, which includes increasing our numbers of our more senior roles (band 6 and above). This team leader role will provide exposure to a diverse range of responsibilities and tasks, offering a great development opportunity, to support with career progression.

Main duties

Your duties will include preparing and implementing the dispensary rota, reviewing annual leave requests, coordinating and prioritising the dispensary workload and staffing to ensure service delivery and turnaround times are maintained.

You will be required to demonstrate well developed organisational and time management skills, be able to influence others, whilst managing and prioritising your own workload.

The successful candidate will lead by example, continually monitor and suggest improvements to systems and procedures, promote quality and good practice and maximise the performance of the pharmacy dispensary team.

With a number of changes going on across the department, such as the introduction of automated unit dose dispensing (Optimed), this is an exciting time to join the UHL pharmacy team.

To be successful in this role you will need to be a registered Pharmacy Technician and have excellent interpersonal skills, with a strong motivation for the role and commitment to delivering high quality pharmaceutical care.

Please contact us for an informal chat or to visit the team and department. We look forward to hearing from you.

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).

We Have Four Primary Goals

• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
  
  

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
  
  

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.

About The University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust

http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Johnson Job title: Principal Pharmacy Technician- Operations Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0116 258 7754

Alternative telephone: 07811024826