# Senior Dispensary Pharmacy Technician > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-dispensary-pharmacy-technician/7a56f327-fb65-49d9-b390-e67013d3b3e9 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-dispensary-pharmacy-technician/7a56f327-fb65-49d9-b390-e67013d3b3e9.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Denmark Hill - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacy technician - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £38,488 - £46,852 per annum, inc HCA - **Contract type:** Permanent: Job share - **Employment type:** Job share - 7.5 hours per week (includes 7 day working) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-08T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-24T23:01:36.050Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Kings_College_Hospital_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8223924 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8223924?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kch.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The postholder will support the dispensary manager in the day-to-day management of the dispensary. Core responsibilities include: - Oversee daily dispensing traffic, manage queues, and resolve stock and prescription queries. - Dispensing & checking - accurately dispense and perform final accuracy checks on items prepared by other staff. - Supervise, mentor, and roster junior pharmacy technician, trainees, support assistants. - Monitor inventory levels, manage controlled drug registers and destruction sessions. ### Main duties of the job - · ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To partake in audits conducted within the Dispensary. - To deal with verbal complaints, safety issues and investigate Inphase incidents. - To investigate and resolve stock discrepancies (including controlled drugs). - To take part in the routine destruction of Controlled Drugs alongside a delegated responsible person. - To contribute to service developments within the department. - To be able to follow departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). - To be able to dispense inpatient, outpatient and discharge medication accurately. - To competently counsel patients on the use of their outpatient medication. - To contribute to wider policies that have an impact within the pharmacy department and across the Trust. - To support the Dispensary Manager by contributing to the development of the Dispensary Services. - To be able to use pharmacy computer systems correctly and enter data accurately from transcription sheets, prescription forms and any other prescriptions written by others. - To ensure that data is stored and archived appropriately in accordance with local and regionally agreed guidelines. - To be able to use initiative to appropriately prioritise work. - Participate in the Departments Seven day working model which includes weekends, late night and bank holiday working rota ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills and Competencies **Essential** - Be able to provide, receive and relay factual information to inform colleagues, patients, and other members of staff important information - Be able to make sound judgments in relation to Pharmacy Service issue - Be able to organise staff in an efficient manner in order to provide an effective service - Be able to concentrate on complex matters (activity analysis, workload allocation across the service, checking of dispensed prescriptions) despite frequent interruptions - Be able to work in a busy demand-led service with occasional exposure to verbal aggression from individuals, be able to work on the ward, and in a busy Stores environment - Able to participate in the late duty, weekend and bank holiday service rota ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Knowledge of procedures for pharmacy services - Knowledge of laws and regulations relating to an effective pharmacy service - Knowledge of pharmacy computer systems - Experience in a busy dispensary setting **Desirable** - Considerable experience working in a hospital pharmacy - Experience working with Clinical Trials - Experience in an outpatient pharmacy setting ### Education and Qualifications **Essential** - NVQ Pharmacy services Level 3 plus accredited underpinning knowledge (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent) or equivalent - Professional registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council - Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice - Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician qualification, or currently undertaking ## Documents - [band 5 jd (pdf, 320.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10560760) - [princess royal (pruh) site map (pdf, 1.4mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=607) - [agenda for change salary 26-27 (pdf, 44.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3032) - [visa and sponsorship information (pdf, 344.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2817) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.