Pharmacy Automation Coordinator
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role involves managing, maintaining, and optimising automated systems within the Pharmacy Department and wards at Great Ormond Street Hospital. You will oversee the efficient operation of automated dispensing cabinets, robotic systems, and the pneumatic tube system, ensuring seamless medication storage and distribution. The coordinator will support system improvements, training, troubleshooting, and compliance, while also investigating automation incidents and ensuring robust governance. Additionally, the role includes line management responsibilities for a team of Pharmacy Technicians, Assistants, and Porters.
Essential criteria
- Combined Values
- Academic/Professional qualification/Training
- BTEC and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or NVQ Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (QCF) Level 3 (City and Guilds) and Level 3 Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science (QCF) or equivalent qualification supported by Pharmacy work experience.
- GPh.C. registered Pharmacy Technician
Desirable criteria
- Educational Supervisor
- [contact details removed], Management certificate or proven relevant experience
- Accredited checking technician (ACPT)
- Experience/Knowledge
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- Dispensing and Distribution stock control systems
- Proven experience in training and assessment of junior staff
- Relevant Hospital pharmacy experience as a qualified Technician.
- Operation of Automated Dispensing Robot & Intelligent Storage Systems
- Use of medicines in specialist area of paediatrics
- EPIC Computer system including Electronic Prescribing
- Skills/Abilities
- Problem and decision-making skills
- Methodical approach to work and good attention to detail
- Computer skills including Power Point, Excel
- Adaptable and able to respond to changing demands
- Ability to function calmly and efficiently when under pressure
- Patient focused and sensitive to patient needs
- Good patient counselling skills & proficient in providing advice to patients/parents
- Combined Values
- Combined Values
- Academic/Professional qualification/Training
- BTEC and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or NVQ Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (QCF) Level 3 (City and Guilds) and Level 3 Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science (QCF) or equivalent qualification supported by Pharmacy work experience.
- GPh.C. registered Pharmacy Technician
- Educational Supervisor
- [contact details removed], Management certificate or proven relevant experience
- Accredited checking technician (ACPT)
- Experience/Knowledge
- Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
- Dispensing and Distribution stock control systems
- Proven experience in training and assessment of junior staff
- Relevant Hospital pharmacy experience as a qualified Technician.
- Operation of Automated Dispensing Robot & Intelligent Storage Systems
- Use of medicines in specialist area of paediatrics
- EPIC Computer system including Electronic Prescribing
- Skills/Abilities
- Problem and decision-making skills
- Methodical approach to work and good attention to detail
- Computer skills including Power Point, Excel
- Adaptable and able to respond to changing demands
- Ability to function calmly and efficiently when under pressure
- Patient focused and sensitive to patient needs
- Good patient counselling skills & proficient in providing advice to patients/parents
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £47,951 – £56,863 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Pharmacy Automation Coordinator
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
The Pharmacy Automation Coordinator will play a key role in the management, maintenance, and optimisation of automated systems within the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Pharmacy Department and wards.
This role will oversee the efficient operation of automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs), robotic dispensing systems, and the Aerocom pneumatic tube system, ensuring seamless medication storage, dispensing, and distribution across the hospital.
Working closely with Pharmacy, IT, and clinical teams, you will support system improvements, training, troubleshooting, and compliance with regulatory standards to enhance patient safety and operational efficiency.
The role involves investigating automation incidents, ensuring robust governance, accurate supply of medicines and continuous improvement. Whilst maintaining high professional standards in line with legal, professional, and organisational requirements.
As a line manager you will lead, supervise and support a team of Pharmacy Technicians, Assistants and Porters within distribution, taking responsibility for recruitment, induction, appraisals, rota planning and managing performance and attendance to deliver a high quality, patient focused service.
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