# Senior Assistant Technical Officer – Rotational

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** St George's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Officer (discipline unspecified)
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £31,554 - £33,270 p.a. pro rata inclusive of HCAS (Inner)
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (including weekends and bank holidays)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-20T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06T13:50:53.455Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8199570
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8199570?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated individual with good interpersonal and organisational skills looking to progress to a Band 3 Senior Assistant Technical Officer (SATO) and join our medicines optimisation team. You will currently be a Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer preferably in a hospital setting looking to expand your role and knowledge.

If you have excellent proven organisation and communication skills as well as attention to detail and a good knowledge of Pharmacy IT systems, then this exciting new role could be the job for you.

### Main duties of the job

Your duties will include:

- Day to day running of the satellite dispensing units on a rotational basis with our various satellites in different specialties and our main dispensary
- Participate in the ward Top up service / maintaining an Omnicell
- Rapid TTO turnaround to maintain patient flow
- Participate in medicines optimisation tasks where accredited
- Assist the ward-based pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at ward level maintaining the outsourced blister pack service / completing returns
- Participate in dispensary-based duties on a rota system
- Participate in late evening rota, weekends and bank holiday rota. The successful candidate will require excellent communication skills and enjoy both an individual challenge and working as part of a large team.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.

### Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Effective customer care skills – able to work to meet the needs of customers of the department and to meet the standards of the trusts code of practice at all times
- Competent in all areas of dispensing practice

**Desirable**

- Ability to train and assess others
- Familiarity with JAC computer system

### Experince

**Essential**

- Work experience, preferably in a pharmaceutical environment, involving dispensing
- Ward top up experience
- Proven stock control experience & knowledge
- Proven experience of efficient dispensing

**Desirable**

- Ward /clinical experience
- Proven experience of supervising staff and workload on a day-to-day basis
- Previous experience of participation in audit

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- GCSE Grade A-C including maths, english and science
- General education qualifications.

**Desirable**

- Further education qualifications NVQ level 2 Pharmacy Services

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