About this role
Job summary
Are you an ambitious Pharmacy Technician ready to take the next step in your leadership career? Do you thrive on driving innovation, improving services, and leading teams to deliver excellence?
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and forward-thinkingDeputy Pharmacy Stores and Distribution Managerto join our Pharmacy team at King's Mill Hospital. This is a pivotal leadership role within a newly established management structure, offering the opportunity to influence and develop medicines supply services across Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and external clients.
This is an exciting time to join us as we continue to modernise our pharmacy services, embrace digital innovation, and develop smarter ways of working to support outstanding patient care.
As a key member of our Pharmacy leadership team, you will play a vital role in ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant procurement, storage, and distribution of medicines across the Trust. If you're looking for an opportunity where you can lead, innovate, and make a lasting difference to pharmacy services and patient care, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
NVQ 3 in Pharmaceutical science or equivalent qualification accepted by General Pharmaceutical Council for registration purposes QCF Assessor award Supervisory qualification
Desirable
Procurement qualification
Further Training Essential
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development In house Recruitment and Selection training In house Appraisal training
Experience Essential
Significant post qualification hospital experience Significant supervisory experience Significant Stores / purchasing experience Significant experience of training and competency assessment Excellent communication and inter personal skills, including negotiating and persuasive skills
Contractual Requirements Essential
Regular Attendance Flexible approach to working hours, including weekends and bank holidays Ability to carry out the duties of the post as outlined in the job description
Knowledge Requirements Essential
Knowledge of COSHH regulations IT skills Specialist expert knowledge of pharmaceutical technical practice and experience to an equivalent degree level Knowledge of Wholesaler dealer's Licence and Good distribution practice Knowledge of pharmacy ordering systems Knowledge of pharmacy distribution systems
Desirable
In-patient dispensary procedures
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton in Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)