Lead Pharmacy Technician - Automation and Systems Management

Job Overview

Are you a skilled Pharmacy IT professional ready to lead on the delivery and optimisation of medicines management technology? Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Lead Pharmacy Technician in Automation and Systems Management to join our dedicated pharmacy team at Frimley Park Hospital for a 12-month maternity cover.

You’ll Work Closely With Your Counterpart At Wexham Park Hospital, Providing Leadership And Specialist Technical Expertise For Our Pharmacy Systems, Including

• Omnicell Automated Dispensing Cabinets (ADCs)
• Pharmacy Robots
• Epic electronic health record system
• WellSky Pharmacy
• Other integrated medicines management solutions
  
  

What You’ll Do

• Take operational ownership of pharmacy IT systems at Frimley Park Hospital
• Lead system maintenance, troubleshooting, upgrades, and optimisation
• Ensure safe, accurate, and efficient medicines management workflows
• Liaise with suppliers, Trust IT, pharmacy colleagues, and other stakeholders
• Support implementation of new digital solutions and system improvements
• Provide training and guidance to pharmacy staff in effective system use
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• A qualified pharmacy technician registered with the GPhC
• Excellent problem-solving, organisational, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across sites
• Previous experience with Omnicell, Epic, WellSky, or robotics desirable
  
  

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be responsible for the management of automated systems including Omnicell robotic dispensing systems and automated drug cabinets and develop IT services in accordance with National, Departmental and Trust objectives.

The postholder will be the pharmacy point of contact regarding pharmacy systems and maintains communication with Trust departments including clinical and digital, as well as external suppliers.

The postholder will support the oversight and Information Governance for the following pharmacy systems:

• JAC/Wellsky
• EPIC (Willow) and Hyperspace
• Omnicell ADCs
• Omnicell robots
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For more information on the main responsibilities of this role please see attached job description and person specification

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered with GPhC
• BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science and NVQ3 or qualification in IT or equivalent
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Recognised Accredited Checking qualification
• Recognised practice supervision / E&T qualification
• NVQ in Pharmaceutical Services A1 or V1 qualification
• Medicines Management Qualification
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Wide experience of the use of the JAC/Wellsky Pharmacy Computer System, preferably at system management level
• Knowledge of Omnicell Robots and automated dispensing cabinets (ideally to system administrator level)
• Evidence of up to date CPD
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience with the Epic EPR system
• Working knowledge of networks, servers and other forms of IT communication
  
  

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Clear communication in English both verbal and written
• Able to complete projects to tight deadlines
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with a wide range of customers, from patient to hospital consultant.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to identify and manage risk
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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