Pharmacy Technician higher level

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is recruiting a Pharmacy Technician to join the Medicine Optimisation team at Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield. The role involves working in a hospital pharmacy service to support safe and effective medicines management across the trust.

You will perform ward-based medication reconciliation, assess patients' own medicines for hospital use, provide specialist counselling to patients and carers, and participate in discharge planning to ensure timely care

Qualifications

• BTEC in Pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent.
• Certificate of Accreditation as a Checking Technician.
• Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with GPhC.
• Dispensing of medicines.

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive, ward‑based pharmacy service.
• Undertake meticulous medicine reconciliation reviews for inpatients.
• Assess suitability of patients' own drugs for use in hospital.
• Provide specialist counselling to patients and carers about medications and treatment.
• Participate in discharge planning with ward staff and other health professionals to ensure safe, timely transfers.
• Support training and development of Pharmacy Support Workers, Trainee Technicians, Technicians and Trainee Pharmacists.

Skills

Dispensing medicines

Patient counselling

Education

BTEC in Pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent

Certificate of Accreditation as a Checking Technician

Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with GPhC

Job description

We are seeking to recruit a highly motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our well-established medicine optimisation team. Our team consists of Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Support Workers (PSWs), all working together to ensure the safe provision of medicines across the trust whilst we continue to provide the best service to the patients.

The position will involve:

• Working in close collaboration with the pharmacy team and the broader multidisciplinary team (MDT) to optimise the care and medications of patients.
• Support and develop other members of the pharmacy team.
• Take part in training and initiatives aimed at improving services.
• Ensure continuity of patient care regarding medication upon hospital admission to facilitate the efficient reconciliation of medications within the Trust and the prompt provision of medication upon discharge.
• Ensure the delivery of a pharmacy service that is patient-focused, proactive, and responsive to the wards by providing support, providing, and developing the service

This post is based at Pinderfields Hospital, but you may be required to work at other sites within the Trust as needed, to support service levels.

The Pharmacy operates a 7 day service and as part of this role you will be expected to participate in the evening and weekend working rotas.

Main duties of the job

As a member of the Pharmacy Medicines Optimisation team, you will be responsible for providing a comprehensive, integrated ward-based pharmacy service.

• Undertake meticulous medicine reconciliation reviews on all recently admitted inpatients.
• Assess suitability of patient's own drugs for use whilst in the hospital environment.
• Provide specialist counselling for patients and carers about their medications and treatment.
• To participate in the discharge planning of patients with ward staff and other healthcare professionals both in secondary and primary care to ensure a safe, efficient and timely discharge from our care.
• Support the training and development of Pharmacy Support Workers, Trainee Technicians, Technicians and Trainee Pharmacists.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

About us

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Job responsibilities

Qualifications:

BTEC in Pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent

Certificate of Accreditation as a Checking Technician

Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with GPhC

Experience:

Dispensing of medicines

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)

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.