Lead Pharmacy Technician-Production

at  University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Following an internal reorganisation, an exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for an exceptional pharmacy technician to manage the busy production units on rotation basis at University College Hospital.
You will need to be registered with the GPhC, with substantial post qualification pharmacy practice experience including extensive post qualification work in a team leader role in a hospital Pharmacy sterile unit.
As the Lead Pharmacy Technician, you will provide excellent leadership to a range of technical staff working in the unit. Good people skills; an excellent working knowledge of GMP; Good Stock Control Practice and sound dispensing skills are essential.
The production team is friendly and extremely hard-working, an extremely busy TPN/CIVAS and chemotherapy service, which produces around 50,000 doses pa, you will need to cope with busy workloads, maintain high standards of accuracy and precision, help plan and schedule work, as well as building excellent relationships with the other members of the production team.
The post holder will also have an exciting opportunity to get involved in the management our brand-new advance therapy services due to go live in June 2025.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicin e
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*

UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! : University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

• In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the second year in a row.

UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work

Please refer the Job description for details