Pharmacy Technician

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Oswestry; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A local pharmacy is seeking a full-time Pharmacy Technician. The successful candidate will maintain standards of clinical governance, dispense medications, and provide pharmaceutical advice to healthcare staff. Responsibilities include managing patient information, ensuring compliance with regulations, and participating in audits. This role requires a registered Pharmacy Technician qualification and the ability to communicate effectively with patients and medical professionals. The position offers an annual salary ranging from £27,485 to £30,162.

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with relevant experience.
• Ability to advise on drug use and compliance.
• Proven skills in providing patient counseling.

Responsibilities

• Maintain awareness of national pharmacy technical issues.
• Advise healthcare staff on drug use.
• Provide high quality dispensing service.
• Update patient information and dispensing records.

Skills

Clinical governance knowledge

Pharmaceutical advice

Dispensing accuracy

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Education

Pharmacy Technician qualification

Tools

Pharmacy computer system

Job description

£27,485.00 to £30,162.00 per year, £27485.00 - £30162.00 a year

Contract Type:

Contract

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

13/02/2026

About this job

Maintaining a satisfactory awareness of current national pharmacy technical issues.

Ensure that all services delivered by the Pharmacy accord with clinical governance criteria in relation to aspects such as risk management, adherence to the Duthie report and concordance with appropriate Trust policies and guidelines.

Advising medical and nursing staff on drug use and encouraging compliance with the Trust Formulary at all times in order to foster rational and economic prescribing.

Participating in audits associated with drug risk issues reported by medical, nursing mastery and pharmacy staff.

Providing a visiting technical service at remote sites according to the appropriate Service Level Agreements held with the Pharmacy department.

Observe and have due regard to the General Pharmaceutical Council Standards for conduct, ethics and performance, where this is relevant to registered Pharmacy Technicians; suggesting and implementing improvements to services exercising professional responsibility, including lifelong learning within an open no‑blame culture.

Be actively involved in providing a high quality dispensing service to the trust using labioscience knowledge and skills gained through training and practical experience, using such skills, experience and knowledge to act as a role model to trainee technicians and Pharmacy Support Workers within the Department.

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Accurately calculating quantities of medicines to be dispensed to patients; providing pharmaceutical advice using specialist knowledge gained through training and using reference sources such as the internetाही, reference books and pharmaceutical journals to provide up‑to‑date medicines information to patients and clinical staff, referring to a pharmacist where necessary आने; using knowledge and experience to answer urgent queries in person and on the telephone, often causing grapple when concentrating on accurately dispensing; participating in all aspects of dispensary cover according to the needs of the service; communicating face‑to‑face, by telephone and e‑mail with patients and clinical staff; advising and counselling patients on the use of their medicines, side effects, dosage and further supplies, including dealing with confused, partially sighted, hard of hearing, agitated and aggressive patients; calculating and receiving payment by cash, cheque or card of prescription charges or obtaining and validating proof of exemption; calculating the cost of private prescription charges using the pharmacy computer system for payment of private prescriptions.

Providing information for the Finance department to generate invoices for outstanding charges.

Updating patient informationრუდ and dispensing records on the pharmacy computer system.

Completing written and computer records of dispensing; issuing high cost.ibm drugs in accordance with local policies under the supervision of a Pharmacist and with financial approval;

Retrieving filed prescriptions to provide prescribing information to GPs and clinical staff.

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