Pharmacy Technician

We are excited to advertise a new post within our Pharmacy Stores and Procurement team at Maidstone Hospital.

This is a new post as part of our strategy to centralise procurement of medicines at Maidstone Hospital

Our Pharmacy Technician team will ensure you have the best training to learn all about hospital contracts, support our invoicing clerk in investigating and resolving discrepancies, managing stocks efficiently and effectively, reduce medicines wastage and ensure best value procurement at all times and also give you opportunities to develop your other Pharmacy core skills eg dispensing, or accredited checking or medication management or high cost drugs/homecare., We have a fantastic Pharmacy Stores and Procurement team who have extensive knowledge of medicines procurement, supply chains and also managing stocks on wards using innovative remote ward based Omnicell's and a recently refurbished robot. You will be able to 'learn from the best' and have opportunities to be involved in many projects, developing skills in audits and quality improvement projects within the team to optimise the use of medicines,

We have recently started Patient First huddles in our team and are excited to use this new process to make further improvements to our service

Our ideal candidate will understand the importance of the Pharmacy Technician role within Pharmacy; be passionate about Pharmacy, Healthcare, providing patient centre care and upholding the GPhC professional standards.

You will already be, or about to qualify as, a registered Pharmacy Technician. Hospital experience is not essential as we will provide all training.

The successful candidate will be expected to participate in the department's early/late rota and in our 1 in 6 weekend working rota.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.

In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.