Band 5 Pharmacy Technician

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services); Gatenby; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A government healthcare organization in Gatenby is hiring a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to provide high-quality dispensary services within a military medical center. The full-time role offers development opportunities, flexible working options, and additional benefits. Ideal candidates will possess NVQ Level 3 qualifications and a commitment to patient care.

Benefits

Access to learning and development

Flexible working options

Free parking

Access to a gym

Onsite shop and café

Qualifications

• Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures from NVQ level 3 training.
• Experience in managing day-to-day dispensary operations.
• Understanding of medicines management and relevant legislation.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe and efficient dispensary service at the Medical Centre.
• Ensure compliance with JSP and DPHC policy.
• Advise medical staff on pharmacy and prescribing issues.

Skills

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Communication skills

Education

National Vocational Qualification Level 3 Pharmaceutical sciences

BTEC Pharmaceutical science qualification

Tools

Dispensing software

Job description

Go back Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Band 5 Pharmacy Technician

The closing date is 24 September 2025

At Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel.

Are you a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military, which offers numerous benefits and opportunities? If the answer is yes, then we are looking to appoint a professional and patient focused individual with a strong commitment to providing a high quality service to work within our friendly and welcoming team at the Medical Centre at RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire.

The vacant post is full time working 37.5 hours per week. Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.

Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

• Access to learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
• Free parking
• Access to a gym
• Onside shop and cafe

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work alongside 2 part-time Band 5 (BD5) Pharmacy Technicians that jobshare. The post is unsupervised and requires jointly managing the day to day running of the Medical Centre dispensary at RAF Leeming. You will be responsible for delivering a consistently high-quality dispensary service and assists in the delivery of an effective medicines management service to entitled personnel within the multi-disciplinary medical centre and on behalf of the Senior Medical Officer.

The ideal candidate will have knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures acquired through training at National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) 3 level, supervising a technical area within the dispensary and knowledge of medicines management, including relevant legislation and policies acquired through NVQ3 training.

About us

Our success depends on our people our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Job responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities for the role include, but are not limited to:

• Providing a safe and efficient dispensary service as part of a multi-disciplinary primary healthcare team within the Medical Centre.
• Ensuring the service is compliant with Joint Service Publications (JSP), Defence PrimaryHealthcare (DPHC) policy, local policy, standards and legislation.
• Providing advice to medical centre staff on pharmacy, prescribing and medicines management issues within scope of own competence.
• Ensuring compliance with policies regarding security, safety and patient confidentiality.

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for additional details.

Selection Process

The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

CV

• Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.
• Please provide information of how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description. You may wish to further include examples of how you have tackled similar tasks or demonstrated the skills outlined in the job advert.
• To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use. https://www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk/artificial-intelligence-and-recruitment/

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework:

• NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
• NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
• NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
• NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK1 Information Processing
• NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
• NHS Core NHSC6 Equality and Diversity

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Further Information

Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs. Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact [e-mail].

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

For details on our complaints procedure, please see attached Important Information document.

Person Specification

Registrations and Memberships

• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Please provide your membership registration number. You are required to be registered with the relevant professional body, as detailed in the advert, prior to submitting your application.
• Your application will not progress should you fail to provide a valid membership registration number.

Experience

• Practical experience to be able to operate in a singleton post.

Provide a CV

• Please copy and paste your full CV as your response to this question, you will not be able to upload your CV as an attachment.
• Please ensure to refer to the essential criteria where applicable as your application may be rejected should insufficient information to shortlist be included.
• Please use double spacing where possible.

Qualifications

• National Vocational Qualification Level 3 Pharmaceutical sciences or BTEC Pharmaceutical science qualification.
• Other additional training for checking dispensed prescriptions without further reference.

Behaviour Statement

• Have you been dismissed for gross misconduct relating to bullying, harassment, discrimination or victimisation from any role in the past five years, or resigned or otherwise left a role but would have been dismissed for such gross misconduct because of an adverse decision, had you continued in that employment?
• Please respond with Yes or No as appropriate.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

£29,970 to £36,483 a year(pro rata for part time) *Pay award pending