Inpatient Pharmacy Technician: Dispensing & Discharge Support

Hampshire Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Winchester; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates across three sites—Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, and Andover War Memorial Hospital—and provides inpatient pharmacy services to a population of around 600,000.

The role supports the dispensary and clinical pharmacy teams, ensuring timely processing of discharge medications and maintaining high safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Final Accuracy checking of medications
• Dispensing medications
• Provide FP10s or dispense/final accuracy check extemporaneously prepared medication
• Support training of junior staff
• Handing out the final dispensed product including counselling
• Receiving, documenting, storing and disposing of Controlled Drugs with Pharmacist or authorised witnesses as per policy
• Report incidents using Incident reporting system
• Adhere to health and safety requirements including handling of hazardous medicines
• Comment on and review Standard Operating Procedures and follow revisions
• Prioritise own work and assist other dispensary team members
• Inpatient pharmacy activities: dispensing/checking inpatient meds, TTOs, Clinical trials, Controlled Drugs
• Communicate with pharmacy team and multidisciplinary teams for safe patient care
• Support discharge processes with ward teams to facilitate patient discharge
• Support junior staff training as required

Job description

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates across three sites—Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, and Andover War Memorial Hospital—and provides inpatient pharmacy services to a population of around 600,000.

The role supports the dispensary and clinical pharmacy teams, ensuring timely processing of discharge medications and maintaining high safety standards.