Medicine Management Technician

Northern Care Alliance Nhs Foundation Trust; Stretford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Flexible working

Health & wellbeing hours

Job summary

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a qualified pharmacy technician (or Pre-Registration Trainee) to join our team. You will provide accurate dispensing for inpatients and wards, ensuring high standards of patient care and safety.

The role offers personal development, an Agenda for Change pay band 5, and flexible working patterns. Applicants must be registered with GPhC and have appropriate pharmacy qualifications.

Qualifications

• GPhC registration is essential.
• BTEC Level 3 or NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Service Skills required.
• Accuracy checking qualification preferred or willingness to undertake.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical service with focus on dispensing for inpatients, outpatients, and discharge patients.
• Gain experience in ward-based medicines management and dispensary services, mentoring staff.
• Support Medicines Management on wards with pharmacists, including histories and PODs.

Skills

Supervisory duties

Experience with pharmacy systems

Attention to detail

Prioritisation of workload

Communication skills

Education

GPhC registration

BTEC Level 3 in Pharmacy Practice

NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Service Skills

Accuracy checking qualification or willingness

Tools

Pharmacy computer systems

Job description

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified pharmacy technician (or Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician due to qualify) to join our team.

You will need excellent organisational skills and be able to work accurately and quickly under pressure, have a good eye for detail, be able to prioritise your workload, meet deadlines and be committed to the delivery of high standards in a patient focused service. If you are able to work under pressure, and keen to develop yourself, we would like to hear from you.

This is an exciting opportunity for personal development to help support you through your career.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a comprehensive pharmaceutical service with particular emphasis on the technical aspects of the accurate preparation and dispensing of medicines to inpatients, out patients and patients being discharged from hospital, and for the supply of medicines to wards, departments, and partnership organisations under supervision.
• Gain experience in all areas of ward based medicines management as well as dispensary services, clinical trials and mentoring other staff.
• Work alongside Clinical Pharmacists supporting the Medicines Management service to the wards, ensuring patients receive the highest standards of care in the management of their medication. Duties will include taking medication histories, assessment of patients own drugs (PODs), and preparation of medication for discharge.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and collaborating closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we are always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Closing date: 03 November 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 236-CSS-PS148-26

Essential qualifications and training

• Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• BTEC Level 3 in principles and practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent qualification.
• NVQ Level 3 Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills or equivalent qualification.
• Accuracy checking qualification or must be willing to undertake accuracy checking qualification.

Essential knowledge, skills and experience

• Supervisory / training experience
• Experience of using pharmacy-based computer systems
• Work to high standards of accuracy and reliably demonstrate from experience
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to form positive relationships
• Evidence ability to work independently using own initiative
• Evidence ability to prioritise tasks.

Desirable

• Hospital experience desirable
• Experience of working at ward level as a Medicines Management Technician
• Experience of working with automated dispensing systems

Employer contact details

Chief Pharmacy Technician - ward services, Ailsa Burgess, [e-mail], 01612064208

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.