Principal Paediatric Pharmacy Technician - Ward Services | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 07 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,419 - £55,046 p.a. inclusive of HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 December 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7591463/196-LIS10042D |
Summary
Principal Paediatric Pharmacy Technician - Ward Services
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacy technician looking for a new challenge to develop their career in a Paediatric NHS hospital pharmacy setting.
The successful candidate will lead our team of ward based pharmacy technicians, adapting and enhancing pharmacy technician roles to reflect the changing needs of the patients and the clinical pharmacy service, as well as managing the day to day workload at ward level within the Evelina London pharmacy service.
If you are seeking a new challenge and looking to make a difference then this is your ideal job.
Shift Pattern: 9am-5.30pm Monday to Friday (37.5 hours). 9am-5pm for rostered weekends and bank holidays. Late duty as per roster 9.30am-6pm.
Closing date: 19th November 2025 at midnight
Interview date: 27th November 2025
The successful candidate will join the Evelina London pharmacy leadership team and contribute to strategies to develop and enhance service provision. You will be responsible for providing and ensuring a safe, efficient and accurate ward-based pharmacy technician service is delivered across the Evelina London wards.
See JD and PS for further details.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, and neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
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. The Duchess of Cambridge became the Patron of Evelina London in 2018.
We are looking for an experienced, committed and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician with demonstrable competencies in hospital pharmacy practice, leadership/management, excellent communication skills and a demonstrable commitment to patient care and experience.
You should be a highly organised, supportive and motivated team player with the ability to prioritise appropriately, and manage and deliver medicines optimisation projects.
Most importantly you must uphold and demonstrate the Trust values and have a passion for delivering the best quality care for our patients.
This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Nov 2025