Lead Pharmacy Technician

Job overview

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is launching a brand-new pharmacy supply and dispensing service to support our mental health and learning disability wards and community teams. At the heart of this transformation is a new dedicated Pharmacy Hub at our Swandean site in Worthing and we’re looking for an exceptional pharmacy technician to lead it.

This is a rare opportunity to shape a service from the ground up: designing how it works, building the team, setting the standards, and embedding a culture of safety, learning, quality and continuous improvement from day one.

You’ll be joining an award-winning pharmacy team that values innovation, collaboration and professional development. You will play a pivotal role in improving access to medicines, strengthening supply resilience, and enhancing the experience of patients and clinical teams across the Trust.

If you’re a strategic, motivated pharmacy technician leader who wants to leave a real legacy, this role offers the scope, influence and challenge to do exactly that.

Main duties of the job

• Provide senior operational leadership for the day-to-day running of the new Pharmacy Hub at Swandean
• Lead, inspire and develop the pharmacy technician and pharmacy assistant workforce, including training, education and professional development
• Take overall responsibility for Pharmacy Hub operations, ensuring a safe, efficient and patient-centred supply service
• Ensure the timely and secure supply of medicines to wards and community teams
• Embed strong medicines governance, risk management and patient safety systems from the outset
• Build and manage robust operational systems, workflows and performance oversight
• Coordinate workloads, resources and priorities to deliver a resilient, responsive service
• Ensure compliance with medicines legislation, professional standards and Trust procedures
• Act as a senior technical and operational expert within the service
• Support medicines procurement and contribute to managing and mitigating supply disruptions
• Work closely with clinical and corporate colleagues as a trusted professional partner
• Drive continuous improvement, innovation and service development within the hub model

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To plan, manage, develop and lead the provision of medicines supply across the Trust. To act as the delegated authority by the Chief Pharmacist to implement safe, legal and efficient processes of medicines supply from The Pharmacy Hub. To lead and develop the roles and responsibilities of the Trust pharmacy technician and pharmacy assistant workforce. To enhance professional practice, education and service developments using an evidence-based approach. To use specialist expert knowledge to interpret regional and national policy pertinent to the professional role of the pharmacy technician to support accurate workforce planning and development of services. To manage the provision of all pharmacy technician and pharmacy assistant training and professional development. To lead on all policy and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) pertaining to leading The Pharmacy Hub; supporting pharmacists, other pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants in ensuring regulatory compliance with medicines regulations; providing essential support to other healthcare professionals and patients of the Trust. See attached job description for more details on this role and requirements