About The Department

The Welbeck Central Pharmacy is a specialist clinical pharmacy service supporting a high-performing private day-case centre in London. The department works across a range of surgical and outpatient specialties, ensuring safe, efficient and patient-focused medicines management. It collaborates closely with consultants, clinical teams and supply chain partners to deliver timely access to medicines, maintain robust stock control, and support high standards of patient care.

About The Role

This is an exciting and rare opportunity for a pharmacy technician with stores experience to play a key role in establishing a new pharmacy stores and distribution service, including the implementation of automation.

This is an exciting opportunity to establish and lead a new pharmacy stores service, ensuring the efficient procurement, pricing, storage, distribution, and stock control of medicines and pharmacy consumables across the hospital. The role is responsible for maintaining continuity of supply, delivering value for money, and supporting the safe and effective provision of pharmacy services to both internal departments and external healthcare providers.

Working closely with suppliers, clinical teams, and pharmacy colleagues, you will oversee pharmacy inventory management, robotics operations, dispensary stock availability, and ward top-up services. You will play a key role in driving service improvements, maintaining regulatory compliance, and leading a high-performing pharmacy stores team to deliver an efficient, cost effective, and patient-focused service.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the procurement and sourcing of medicines and pharmacy consumables from approved suppliers, collaborating with the wider Welbeck Procurement team.
• Manage medicine and pharmacy product pricing, ensuring accuracy and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Establish, maintain, and review supplier accounts, contracts, and service agreements.
• Monitor and optimise pharmacy inventory levels to minimise wastage, shortages, and expired stock.
• Oversee stock management and operational performance of pharmacy robotics systems.
• Manage and develop top-up services to clinical areas to ensure timely stock replenishment.
• Design, implement, cost, and review top-up box services for clinical departments.
• Ensure adequate dispensary stock levels are maintained to support uninterrupted patient care.
• Provide operational dispensary support, including prescription processing, dispensing, and payment handling when required.
• Lead, develop, and manage pharmacy stores staff, ensuring effective training, workload management, recruitment, and performance oversight.
• Oversee smooth running of the service to maintain high quality governance and safety, including incident reporting and investigations, developing and maintaining SOPs, and conducting audits.