Senior Assistant Technical Officer - Surgery Pharmacy Service

As a member of the Surgical Pharmacy Team, you will be responsible for providing comprehensive pharmacy support for the wards, including stock control, labelling, assembly, dispensing, and distribution of medicines that underpins our clinical services. You will play a proactive role in ensuring the safe and effective storage and supply of medicines on surgical wards, including suggesting solutions for our supply services. This position requires flexibility, as you will work both on the wards and in the dispensary to meet team and service needs. The service covers 7 wards at the St Thomas' site and 2 wards at the Guy's site, with our team working on both sites.
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Working for our organisation
Joining the Surgical Pharmacy Team at Guy's and St Thomas' means being part of a renowned NHS Foundation Trust known for its commitment to clinical excellence and patient care. You will work in a supportive and dynamic environment that values professional growth, innovation, and teamwork. Our Trust is dedicated to reflecting the diversity of our community and provides ample opportunities for continuous learning and development.
As part of our team, you will play a crucial role in delivering high-quality pharmacy services, contributing to the overall success of our surgical departments, and making a significant impact on patient outcomes. We value everyone in our team, with each of us able to contribute to creating the best service for our patients., As a Senior Assistant Technical Officer within the Surgical Pharmacy Service, you will:
+ Ensure accurate dispensing of medicines and maintain comprehensive records.
+ Manage inventory, ensuring proper stock levels, rotation, and disposal of obsolete or expired medicines.
+ Collaborate with medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff to resolve issues and improve medicine supply processes.
+ Participate in research and audit activities to support pharmacy patient services.
+ Adhere to Trust policies, including those related to confidentiality, data protection, and infection control.
+ Promote the Trust's values by putting patients first, taking pride in your work, respecting others, striving for excellence, and acting with integrity.
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Guy's and St Thomas' celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study's at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual's personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacy assistant to advance their career in a hospital pharmacy setting as a Senior Assistant Technical Officer. If you're eager to expand your technical skills, enhance patient satisfaction, and make a meaningful impact within Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, this is the ideal role for you. Join our Surgery Pharmacy Team and contribute to the ongoing development of our pharmacy services. This position is perfect for a team player who is sensitive to the needs of service users (nurses and patients) and possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will work closely with pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and nurses to resolve medicines management issues on the ward.

Guy's and St Thomas' is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy's is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas' has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children's Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King's Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King's College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of 'good'. Our adult community services achieved a rating of 'outstanding'.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.