Chief Technician, Outpatient Services

Job overview

Are you ready to lead change, inspire a team and transform outpatient pharmacy services? This is an exciting opportunity to provide senior technical and operational leadership for our busy Outpatient Pharmacy Service across Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals.

We have retained our outpatient dispensing service in-house, placing this role at the heart of a service that directly impacts patients across a wide range of specialties. We are looking for an experienced Chief Pharmacy Technician who can lead with confidence, challenge existing ways of working and drive a safe, efficient and patient-focused service.

You will lead the operational delivery and performance of Outpatient Pharmacy Services across both sites, using data, patient experience, incidents and workforce information to identify opportunities and deliver meaningful improvements. You will have a key role in workforce planning, service development, governance, digital transformation, medicines supply and the standardisation of processes across the Trust.

Working closely with pharmacists, clinical teams, senior pharmacy colleagues and other stakeholders, you will influence and deliver change that improves patient flow, reduces delays and enhances the patient experience.

If you are an ambitious pharmacy technician with strong leadership skills, operational expertise and a passion for improving services, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Lead and inspire the Outpatient Pharmacy team across both St Helier and Epsom, providing technical and operational leadership to ensure a safe, efficient and patient-focused service.
• Shape the future of outpatient pharmacy by developing and standardising processes, improving patient pathways and leading service redesign across both sites.
• Drive performance by monitoring and analysing KPIs, workload, waiting times, dispensing activity, incidents and patient experience, identifying bottlenecks and delivering improvements.
• Lead workforce planning to ensure appropriate staffing, skill mix, competency and service capacity to meet patient demand and Trust priorities.
• Champion governance and patient safety, providing senior oversight of incidents, complaints, risks, medicines losses, drug recalls and technical standards.
• Lead digital transformation, using pharmacy systems, data and technology to improve workflow, efficiency, communication and the patient experience.
• Develop and implement change, working collaboratively with pharmacists, clinical teams, Pharmacy colleagues and wider Trust services to deliver sustainable improvements.
• Provide senior technical expertise within Outpatient Pharmacy, ensuring medicines are supplied safely and efficiently in accordance with legislation, professional standards and Trust policies.
• Support innovation and continuous improvement, evaluating the impact of service changes by using data, audit, patient feedback to demonstrate improved outcomes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

Please note: This role is primarily based at St Helier, with a requirement to work across Epsom and other Trust sites as required, supporting a consistent and standardised Outpatient Pharmacy Service across the Trust.

The post includes participation in the late duty, seven day, bank holiday and senior on-call rotas.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.