Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Distribution Services Co-ordinator
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Unique Opportunity in Key Operational Leadership Role
This is a unique opportunity to join a forward-thinking pharmacy service in a key operational leadership role at the heart of medicines distribution.
Role Overview
As a senior member of the pharmacy stores team, you will be instrumental in delivering a safe, efficient and patient-centred medicines supply service across the Trust. You will be highly visible, acting as the face of the service, working closely with pharmacy, ward and corporate teams to ensure medicines reach patients at the right time, in the right place and in the right condition.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the operational management of the Trust’s medicines distribution and pharmacy stores service.
- Supervise pharmacy stores staff to ensure a safe, timely and efficient medicines supply across Trust sites.
- Act as a visible point of contact for day-to-day operational issues, supporting problem-solving and service continuity.
- Deliver and support training for users of automated medicines distribution systems, including Omnicell.
- Monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and contribute to service performance reports and improvement plans.
- Support effective stock management, including reviewing ward stock levels to reduce medicines waste.
- Provide advice on medicines storage, stock rotation and inventory management in line with Good Distribution Practice.
- Support staff rotas, day-to-day supervision and staff development, including competency assessment and revalidation.
- Work collaboratively with pharmacy, procurement, IT and clinical teams to support an effective medicines supply chain.
- Support medicines receipt, picking and distribution, learning from errors to drive improvement.
- Assist with product recalls and support development and review of Standard Operating Procedures.
- Support governance requirements, including Wholesale Dealer Authorisation (Human).
- Participate in the Pharmacy IT on-call rota, providing out-of-hours technical support for automated systems.
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About Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
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.
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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 a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 23,700 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, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Contact for Further Details / Informal Visits
- Name: Holly Sweeting
- Job Title: Principal Pharmacy Technician
- Email Address: Holly.Sweeting1@nhs.net
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