Chief Technician Dispensary Services | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 21 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 September 2025 |
| Location: | Salford, M6 8HD |
| Company: | Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7434956/236-DPG-P326-25-A |
Summary
Are you an experienced Pharmacy Technician looking for an exciting and challenging leadership role within a busy department? We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join us as a key member of the Pharmacy Team.
A role model to your peers, you’ll work well under pressure, have a flexible approach, and embody the trust values in everything you do. Above all you will be passionate about people, progress and delivering personalised care.
The role is Chief Pharmacy Technician – Dispensary Services in which you will be managing our dispensary personnel and ensuring an efficient and seamless supply of medicines across the care organisation. The successful candidate will possess strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
You will have the opportunity to take part in personal development to help support you throughout your career.
We are looking for an initiative-taking and dependable individual with a passion for customer service and teamwork to lead the Inpatient Dispensary team in continuous service improvement initiatives, identifying, and implementing strategies to enhance the quality and efficiency of our dispensary services.
In this role you will be responsible for the operational management of the inpatient pharmacy dispensary and associated staff. Working closely with the Chief Pharmacy Technicians, other Senior Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists to develop an integrated service built around flexible attitudes and teamwork.
You will play a key role in the education, development, mentorship, supervision, and assessment of all staff that work within the dispensary. Participating in a system of Accredited Technician accuracy checking and provides necessary training for technical staff.
Duties will include organisation of rotas, holidays and sickness cover for technical and support staff whilst using professional judgement to make appropriate decisions based on maintaining service provision.
The Post Holder will conduct the formulation, implementation, regular update, audit, and revision of Standard Operating Procedures for their area of responsibility.
Participation in the local and national reviews of pharmaoutcomes.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Learn more about us in our Candidate Information Pack
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
This advert closes on Thursday 4 Sep 2025
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