Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare trust as a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician, providing essential patient care support within an integrated pharmacy team. Responsibilities include delivering a medicines management service and enhancing pharmacy support roles. The position requires a proactive technician with relevant qualifications and team collaboration skills.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits program

Support for staff development

Opportunity to work in a high-rated Trust

Qualifications

• Must acquire Accreditation as a Checking Technician.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy and dispensary environments required.
• Knowledge of Trust Values and experience working in multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide medicines management service across assigned wards.
• Conduct medicines reconciliation and discharge counselling.
• Act as pharmacy technical link person between wards and pharmacy.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Negotiation

Planning

Organisation

Education

BTEC/NVQ3 in pharmacy services

NVQ Assessor

Job description

Go back Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician

The closing date is 14 July 2025

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, dynamic and motivated technician to join our team at the Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Hospital.

We are looking to appoint a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician to our existing team.

You should be an Accredited Checking Technician or be willing to undertake this. The post holder will have the experience in working as a Medicines optimisation Technician.

You will be working alongside a friendly multidisciplinary team both on the wards and within the pharmacy department.

You will be passionate about patient care and will be working in a patient focused pharmacy services, working closely with the ward pharmacists and the Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician.

The Trust has fully comprehensive Electronic Clinical Patient Record/EPMA System

Previous candidates should not apply

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a medicines management service to an allocated number of wards across the Trust. This will include providing a ward top-up service, checking of Patients' Own Drugs (PODs), undertaking medicines reconciliation, one stop dispensing and having an important role in discharge counselling.

The role will involve:

• beingthe pharmacy technical link person between wards, Discharge Lounge and Pharmacy.
• beinga key player in developing and extending the role of the Pharmacy Technicians within the Trust.
• playinga key role in supporting the training of pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians/pharmacist under the direction of the Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services.

About us

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s on this page.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• BTEC/NVQ3 in pharmacy services
• NVQ Assessor

Trust Values

• Understanding of Trust Values

Skills/ Abilities

• Confident working on a busy ward environment with other health care professionals
• Good interpersonal communication and reporting skills (tact, empathy, negotiation, diplomacy)
• Goos Planning and organising skills
• Able to resolve/refer problems arising as appropriate

Experience&Knowledge

• Experience of hospital pharmacy
• Experience of working in a dispensary based environment
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Experience in the supervision and line management of technical and support staff
• Conducting Audits

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.

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust