About this role
Job summary
Lead Pharmacy Technician - Pharmacy Cancer Services (Band 6)An exciting opportunity to combine hands-on leadership with genuine clinical development. Join our Pharmacy Cancer Services team and take a lead role in delivering safe, timely and patient-focused care for people receiving cancer treatment.
In this Band 6 role you'll lead the day-to-day technical service within Pharmacy Cancer Services. You'll balance operational leadership with a strong quality focus, helping shape a safe and efficient environment for handling high-risk medicines.
You will have the opportunity to extend your practice in Cancer Services, developing the technical service alongside involvement in audits, SOP development and service improvement.
Within this role, you would be expected to advance your clinical skills and be involved in clinical verification of Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapies (SACT) and supportive treatments in line with local governance and BOPA standards.
About youYou'll be a GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technician with ACPT and experience supporting others through supervision and training. You'll be organised, proactive and calm under pressure, with a strong commitment to safety, quality and compassionate patient care.If you're looking for a role where you can both lead and grow clinically, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
About us
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021. National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do. We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
Job description Job responsibilities
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them including any examples you would like to highlight.
Person Specification
Criteria Essential
Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role A complete and accurate application Suitability for role evidenced in supporting statement Evidence of essential experience for role Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role Hold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration Evidence of the Trust values and behaviours Evidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the personal specification
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 Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Address East Surrey Hospital
Canada Avenue
Redhill
RH1 5RH
Employer's website https://surreyandsussex.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)