# Senior Assistant Technical Officer - St Thomas' Dispensary

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** St Thomas' Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Officer (discipline unspecified)
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £31,554 - £33,270 Per annum inclusive of HCAs
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Other, 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9am-5:30pm and participation on late duty rota. 1/7 weekends and 1 BH)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-01T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17T10:40:54.480Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Guys_St_Thomas_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Senior_Assistant_Technical_Officer_Pharmacy/Senior_Assistant_Technical_Officer_Pharmacy-v8291436
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8291436?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has presented for a self-motivated, proactive and hard working individual to join our team in St Thomas' inpatient dispensary.

The post-holder will work closely with other Senior Assistant Technical officers to help provide core support to dispensary staff, demonstrate comprehensive communication and assist in the dispensing of medicines to in-patients and the supply of discharge medications in line with CQC standards.

Please note the interview will be conducted using a progressive transparent interview process. Some interview questions will be sent in advance to applicants - with the aim to be truly inclusive as we recognise some of the barriers that interviews create.

### Main duties of the job

The main duties of a Senior Assistant Technical Officer;

- Assisting with reception and phone duties
- Answering and resolving complex queries from doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals
- Dispensing inpatient and Discharge medications
- Dispensing controlled drugs using our controlled drug omnicell cabinet
- Basic understanding of controlled drug medication and legalities
- Returning/ Discarding of medication following procedures
- Ordering, monitoring and stocking the Dispensary appliances daily
- Dispensary stock checks
- Rotation of stock to ensure minimal stock loss
- Omnicell cabinet counts for ward stock/Departments
- Dispensing of inpatient and discharge medication

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time

### 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**

- Demonstrated ability to work to set procedures SOP's accurately
- Demonstrated ability to work as a team
- Demonstrated ability to dispense accurately including basic mathematical prescriptions
- Demonstrated ability to organise their own workload

### Previous Experience

**Essential**

- Previous experience working in a Pharmacy

**Desirable**

- Previous experience in Stock control

### Knowledge/Qualifications

**Essential**

- Maths/English/Science GCSE level A-C
- NVQ/QCF level 2

**Desirable**

- BTEC science/A level sciences
- NVQ/QCF level 3 in appropriate units

## Documents

- [job description b3 (pdf, 328.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10609470)
- [senior assistant technical officer - frf (pdf, 376.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10609472)
- [senior assistant technical officer - person specification (pdf, 128.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10609471)

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