Lead Pharmacy Technician: Procurement & Distribution Manager

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Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

This is a fantastic opportunity for a GPhC registered Pharmacy Technician with strong procurement experience and an interest in mental health, to join our dynamic and innovative pharmacy team. The pharmacy team is currently undergoing significant developments, including the implementation of ePMA and new clinical roles to improve medicines optimisation.

The department has plenty of opportunities to develop your skills and career with us.

You will need to be organised, analytical and motivated with excellent communication and problem solving skills, as well the ability to make decisions under pressure.

Main duties of the job

To manage the pharmacy procurement and distribution service for NLFT.

To maintain and develop systems for pharmacy procurement and distribution, in order to provide a high quality, efficient service to service users including off site clinics.

To manage the Pharmacy / medicines management IT system.

To provide management, supervision, training and development to Pharmacy Technicians, Assistants and trainees.

To deputise for the Chief Pharmacy Technician when required, including the day to day management and responsibility for the operational supply of medicines to wards, units or community teams and deployment of staff ensuring an effective and efficient pharmacy technical supply service.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To manage the pharmacy procurement and distribution service, ensuring:

high quality service provision, effective risk management, clinical governance and adherence to relevant legislation, regulations, policies, procedures and guidelines.

• implementation of contracts and contract review mechanisms, including developing methods of increasing savings and ensuring value for money.
• management of medicine shortages in close liaison with senior pharmacists to provide optimum available products and reduce clinical risks to patients.
• the trust is exposed to the minimum financial risk by operating robust systems.
• the trust is exposed to minimum clinical risk by purchasing from reputable suppliers and that unlicensed products are identified for Quality Control.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• GPhC Registered
• Diploma from CIPS
• Management Training

Desirable criteria

• NVQ Assessor qualification
• Medicines management qualification
• ACPT

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant UK hospital experience
• Procurement & distribution experience
• Management / supervisory experience

Desirable criteria

• Mental health experience
• Experience of using CareFlow

Skills

Essential criteria

• Effective written and communication skills
• Leadership skills
• Problem solving skills

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust's satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Documents to download

• Lead PT Procurement & Distribution (PDF, 504.3KB)
• Lead PT Procurement & Distribution (PDF, 504.3KB)
• A comprehensive guide for candidates (PDF, 875.7KB)