Chief Pharmacy Technician – Stores: Sponsorship Available

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Job summary

Help shape the future of our pharmacy supply service!

Join us at an exciting point in the strategic development of our pharmacy supply and distribution services. As Chief Pharmacy Technician – Stores, you will combine operational leadership with service improvement, workforce development and the effective use of pharmacy systems and automation. You will help shape new ways of working, ensuring our medicines supply service is safe, efficient, responsive and ready for the future.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Pharmacy Technician who is ready to step into a senior leadership role and help shape the development and delivery of a new centralised stores and over-labelling unit ensuring safe, efficient and responsive medicines supply and distribution service across our sites.

The post will combine operational leadership with service improvement, workforce development and the effective use of pharmacy systems and automation.

Main duties of the job

  • Deliver an effective, efficient, high-quality medicines distribution service meeting all professional and regulatory standards across Imperial College Healthcare sites.
  • Ensure a flexible service responsive to customer needs.
  • Support the Principal Technician and Principal Pharmacist, PatientServices, in delivering the service.
  • Provide daily technical leadership and professional guidance to all stores staff.
  • Champion learning and quality improvement in pharmacy.
  • Help audit the service against set standards and review service provision.
  • Ensure safe medicines storage and cost-effective stockholding and supply from stores.
  • Help maintain the quality and accuracy of system information.
  • Act as systems manager for CMM, automation inc. stock robot, automated drug cabinets and temperature monitoring systems.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Pharmacy technician with the GPhC
  • Quality Improvement qualification or equivalent experience in change management
  • Accredited Checking Technician

Desirable

  • Management qualification e.g. Edward Jenner course or equivalent experience
  • NVQ Assessor (or equivalent qualification)

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience at Band 6 in a relevant hospital setting
  • Extensive experience within dispensary services
  • Experience of line managing someone to include performance management, PDP setting and appraisal
  • Experience in using data to evaluate a service
  • Experience in looking after pharmacy computer systems

Desirable

  • Knowledge of budget management
  • Experience in delivering Clinical Trials dispensing service
  • Experience with aseptic manufacturing services

Knowledge/ skills/ abilities

Essential

  • Ability to work effectively under pressure
  • Knowledge of quality, standard setting, benchmarking and audit
  • Analytical ability for problem solving
  • Ability to identify and manage risks

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 8 November 2026

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