Dispensary Team Leader

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic and forward-thinking registered Pharmacy Technician to join our pharmacy team and lead our dispensary service at the Leicester Royal Infirmary site.
Our pharmacy department is currently undergoing a review of its staffing structure, which includes an expansion and redesign of the team. We are focused on creating more efficient and fulfilling ways of working to improve performance and outcomes.
This includes recruiting an additional band 4 dispensary support role for LRI (Senior Pharmacy Assistant), and a cross-site band 6 Lead Pharmacy Technician- Dispensaries. These new roles will support the team leader to manage and improve the pharmacy service.
If you would like to be part of this exciting period of change, we would love to hear from you.
We offer development and progression opportunities for our Pharmacy Technicians. We have made significant changes to expand our technical workforce, which includes increasing our numbers of our more senior roles (band 6 and above). This team leader role will provide exposure to a diverse range of responsibilities and tasks, offering a great development opportunity, to support with career progression.
Reports to: Principal Pharmacy Technician- Operations
Accountable to: Chief Pharmacist, Your duties will include preparing and implementing the dispensary rota, reviewing annual leave requests, coordinating and prioritising the dispensary workload and staffing to ensure service delivery and turnaround times are maintained.
You will be required to demonstrate well developed organisational and time management skills, be able to influence others, whilst managing and prioritising your own workload.
The successful candidate will lead by example, continually monitor and suggest improvements to systems and procedures, promote quality and good practice and maximise the performance of the pharmacy dispensary team.
With a number of changes going on across the department, such as the introduction of automated unit dose dispensing (Optimed), this is an exciting time to join the UHL pharmacy team.
To be successful in this role you will need to be a registered Pharmacy Technician and have excellent interpersonal skills, with a strong motivation for the role and commitment to delivering high quality pharmaceutical care.
Please contact us for an informal chat or to visit the team and department. We look forward to hearing from you.

Working for our organisation
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
+ high-quality care for all,
+ being a great place to work,
+ partnerships for impact, and
+ research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
+ we are compassionate,
+ we are proud,
+ we are inclusive, and
+ we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies, + To manage and co-ordinate all staff grades working in the designated area(s) including dispensaries and satellites matching staff numbers with workflow.
+ To lead regular team meetings with the designated team members to encourage contributions from the team to review and develop the service.
+ To produce team task rotas each week, defining daily activity requirements of staff ensuring technical pharmacy services are delivered. Regularly review rotas, making appropriate changes as necessary to maintain smooth workflow through the department or specialised area of service.
+ To support the education and training team by participating in assessments as a QCF assessor & support in delivering training sessions to other staff including Pre registration technicians and pharmacy assistants.
+ To maintain a clean and tidy dispensary ensuring that all items and
documentation are stored appropriately in designated places, work
benches/areas and walkways are kept clear and equipment is cleaned as per schedule to achieve professional, Health and Safety requirements and support safe and effective dispensing practice. To conduct risk assessments for the department with the departmental Health and Safety representative.

Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the publishing closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.
UHL is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds who match our job criteria.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
UHL is committed to helping colleagues balance the demands of both their work and personal needs through flexible working arrangements wherever reasonably practicable and subject to service needs.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.
The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be deducted from your salary over a three month period commencing on your first month's payment.
The current price of a check is £38 for an enhanced and £18 for a standard check.
COVID 19 Risk Assessment
Due to the current Covid pandemic we have introduced a staff risk assessment into our pre-employment process. This now forms part of the mandatory pre-employment checks that will be carried out if you receive a conditional offer.
The risk assessment is intended to ensure you are able to safely perform your duties in any of our work areas, and if you have been identified as being particularly vulnerable to coronavirus. Our main aim is to reduce risk and to ensure the safety of all new starters to the Trust as well as current staff, patients and visitors.
If it is identified that you are within a vulnerable category, we will endeavor to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate this through discussions with both Occupational Health and your recruiting manager.
Covid Vaccination Status
Covid-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. We therefore continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated.
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything it does and all that it stands for. We are committed to developing a workforce that is representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from the diverse community of Leicester, Leicester and Rutland, to help deliver healthcare services that meets the needs of our diverse communities.