Pharmacy Technician - Virtual Ward

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is expanding its Virtual Ward service and seeks a Pharmacy Technician to join our growing Pharmacy team. You will deliver high-quality pharmaceutical and technical services, conduct medication reviews, and support safe transitions between care settings.

We offer a Development Programme with Band 4 progression to Band 5, and a supportive mentoring structure with senior staff to help you grow in a community-based hospital environment.

Qualifications

• Professional Qualifications: BTEC Pharmaceutical Science and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy.
• Current Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Qualified to administer medicines to patients using electronic prescriptions or has a willingness to work towards completing this competency.
• Able to demonstrate degree level or equivalent post registration experience as a Pharmacy Technician.
• Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality pharmaceutical and technical services directly to Virtual Ward patients.
• Participate in medication reviews and clinical audits.
• Play a crucial role in medication management during care transitions into and out of the Virtual Ward environment.
• Conduct home visits to patients in their own homes or care settings to offer holistic pharmaceutical care and assess medicines concordance.
• Collaborate with the MDT to develop and enhance the pharmacy services provided by our virtual wards.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Accurate numeric skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

IT literacy

Education

BTEC Pharmaceutical Science and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy

Current Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Qualified to administer medicines to patients using electronic prescriptions or has a willingness to work towards completing this competency.

Able to demonstrate degree level or equivalent post registration experience as a Pharmacy Technician

Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards

Tools

Experience of using Pharmacy systems

Job description

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We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.

We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.

Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.

By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.

Job overview

Are you a pharmacy technician looking for a role where you can make a difference in your community? Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is expanding our Virtual Ward service and we’re looking for a Pharmacy Technician to join our growing Pharmacy team. Our Virtual Ward provides hospital-level care to patients in their own homes, supporting conditions such as respiratory, cardiology, and frailty. The aim is to prevent avoidable hospital admissions and enable early discharge, ensuring patients receive high-quality care in the comfort of their familiar surroundings.

Main duties of the job

As a pharmacy technician within the virtual ward team, you’ll play a key role in supporting safe and effective medication management. You will:

- - Provide high-quality pharmaceutical and technical services directly to Virtual Ward patients.

- - Participate in medication reviews and clinical audits.

- - Play a crucial role in medication management during care transitions into and out of the Virtual Ward environment.

- - Conduct home visits to patients in their own homes or care settings to offer holistic pharmaceutical care and assess medicines concordance.

- - Collaborate with the MDT to develop and enhance the pharmacy services provided by our virtual wards.

You will work alongside an experienced Senior Pharmacy Technician, who will mentor and develop you, and have the support of the Principal Pharmacist for Virtual Wards.

For pharmacy technicians that are eligible for registration with GPhC, but do not match the person specification, we are able to offer suitable candidates a position in our pharmacy technician development program which would allow us to appoint you at Band 4 with progression to Band 5 once you have successfully completed all of your competencies.

Working for our organisation

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.

Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see further information on the attached document entitled job description and person specification.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Professional Qualifications: BTEC Pharmaceutical Science and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy
• Current Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Qualified to administer medicines to patients using electronic prescriptions or has a willingness to work towards completing this competency.
• Able to demonstrate degree level or equivalent post registration experience as a Pharmacy Technician.
• Maintains a portfolio of CPD in line with regulatory body standards

Experience

• Able to demonstrate post-qualification experience working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrable experience of providing a pharmacy service on a hospital ward and counselling patients
• Demonstrable experience of using a range of medicines management procedures and practices

Knowledge & Skills

• Proficient in all Microsoft Office software with proven computer literacy and IT skills in:
• Experience of using Pharmacy systems
• Knowledge of using search engines/medical databases to retrieve information
• Evidence of undertaking medicine management audits
• Evidence of good analytical skills and shows attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy
• Demonstrate accurate numeric skills
• Good knowledge of pharmacy practice and clinical governance initiatives relating to medicines
• Good understanding of law and ethics related to prescribing, storage and handling of pharmaceuticals
• Ability to work well with all grades of staff internally as part of a team and externally including ward staff, doctors and patients
• Good knowledge of commonly prescribed drugs, their uses and main counselling points
• Demonstrate ability to maintain required competencies for medicines management duties

Other

• Able to meet the travel requirements of the post

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700 or the 'going rate' for the job you will be doing (whichever is higher). For a limited number of clinical posts ( listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.