King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Dispensary Pharmacy Technician
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Job Description
About the Role
To ensure efficient and effective physiotherapy intervention for the own caseload of patients with musculoskeletal conditions, either inpatients or outpatients depending on the rotation. To assess, treat and manage the own caseload as an autonomous practitioner, including the maintenance of comprehensive records. To work as an effective team member, communicating appropriately with patients, carers, and other team members as required. To teach and develop junior physiotherapists, students, and assistants. To provide physiotherapy sessions across all King’s sites, Virtual Fracture Clinic, in the community, and A&E where required. To undertake an evidence-based project throughout each rotation to further the clinical practice of self and the team, and to enhance patient care.
Dispensary Responsibilities
To organise the dispensary-based services including inpatients, outpatients, TTAs, controlled drugs, and Clinical Trials to agreed performance targets with guidance and support from the Dispensary Manager.
- To assist with the writing, implementation, and updating of policies and procedures specific to the dispensary service.
- To review dispensary errors ensuring actions are taken to address poor performance and reporting progress to the Dispensary Manager.
- To attend cross-site meetings with the aim to standardise practice across sites.
- To take part in the dispensary checking rota.
- To assist with good stock control, ensuring the efficient use of resources, keeping waste to a minimum, and encouraging the reuse of medicines where possible.
- To cover, where appropriate, the duties of other senior Dispensary staff in their absence.
- To assist with the preparation of weekly rotas to ensure all dispensary duties have sufficient staffing.
- To assist in the distribution of FP10 prescription pads, ensuring secure storage arrangements are in place throughout the Hospital.
- To regularly monitor activity and quality data and use this information to maintain a quality service.
- To ensure the safe, effective, and economical use of drugs for all patients in the Trust.
- To line manage rotational or static staff as deemed necessary by the Dispensary Manager.
- To partake in audits conducted within the Dispensary.
- To investigate and resolve stock discrepancies (including controlled drugs).
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About the Trust
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. Transforming Healthcare is the vision at the heart of the King’s Strategy – 2026 to 2031. Together, we are pursuing six strategic ambitions: delivering high-quality patient care; being a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation, and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability. Achieving these ambitions will require all of us to work as one Team King’s, united by a shared commitment to our values of being caring, collaborative, inclusive, and innovative. By living these values every day, we will transform healthcare for our patients, our communities, and each other.
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We are at a pivotal point in our history, and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan, and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste, and pollution wherever possible.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Julie Hawkes-Reekie
- Job title: Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address: j.hawkes-reekie@nhs.net
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