Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician (PTPT)

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust; Stanmore; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) invites applications for a Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician (PTPT). This two-year fixed-term apprenticeship trains you in dispensary-based patient services, medicines optimisation, and NVQ assessments while you work within a dynamic pharmacy team.

You will learn through blended learning with one day per week at the HEI and on-the-job training, with the aim to register with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy

Qualifications

• Be able to demonstrate a minimum of 5 GCSEs (Grade 4–9) including English and Maths.
• Right to live and work in the UK; sponsorship cannot be offered.
• Commit to the full 2-year apprenticeship programme.

Responsibilities

• Provide dispensary-based patient services to inpatients and outpatients.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to ensure medicines optimisation and timely supply.
• Participate in ward top-up and ward-based dispensing.

Education

Five GCSEs including English and Maths

Job description

Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician (PTPT)

Annex 21 - 70% top of band 4 for 1st year, 75% top of band 4 for 2nd year

Main area Orthopaedics Grade Annex 21 - 70% top of band 4 for 1st year, 75% top of band 4 for 2nd year Contract 2 years (Fixed Term) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (plus weekends on rota) Job ref 392-RNOH-8404306

Site Royal National Orthopadic Hospital Town Stanmore, Middlesex Salary £25,827.40 Per Annum Including HCAS Closing 19/11/2026 23:59

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world’s most complex and innovative care to our patients

• Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
• Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
• Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site – improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK’s leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
• In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
• Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.

This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH’s journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.

Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:

• Patients first, always
• Excellence, in all we do
• Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
• Equality, for all

Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon.

Visit our Work with us page to learn more about our culture, values and also hear directly from staff in a short video sharing their experiences of working at RNOH

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A challenging and rewarding opportunity has arisen to join the pharmacy team at the RNOH. We are seeking a forward thinking and highly motivated Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician to be trained within the workplace and complete a two year apprenticeship training programme of underpinning knowledge and NVQ assessments.

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust (RNOH) is a national centre of excellence with an international reputation for diagnosis, assessment and treatment of a range of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions.

The RNOH is a unique hospital site situated in acres of greenery and has completed the redevelopment of a new ward block and four new Theatres at the Stanmore site. The hospital is a state-of-the-art facility that reflects and enhances the medical excellence the RNOH is renowned for. The trust has also implemented EPIC which is a digital electronic health record which has many benefits including enhancing patient engagement with the introduction of a new patient portal as well as streamlined work flows.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone interested in a pharmacy career to ‘earn while they learn’ to complete a qualification and register with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy Technician.

This is a trainee role you will be paid 70% of the top of Band 4 for year 1: £25,827.40 Per annum Including HCAS

In year 2 you will get paid 75% of the top of Band 4

Main duties of the job

The qualification will be delivered as part of a blended learning package with trainees obtaining their knowledge through virtual learning one day a week for two years to complete the NVQ element as well as being assessed also over two years in the workplace. There is huge scope for the successful applicant to develop on both a personal and professional level through exposure to all departmental activities.

The Pharmacy Department has a strong focus on medicines optimisation and innovative pharmaceutical practice. This offers exciting opportunities for professional development for all staff.

The post holder will need to have excellent communication skills, good interpersonal and IT skills, and have the ability to work independently as well as in a team in a dynamic Pharmacy department.

The post holder will be trained to carry out the following:

Provide dispensary-based patient services to inpatients and outpatients

Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to deliver patient focused medicines optimisation through timely supply of medicines, utilisation of patients’ own medicines and medicines counselling

Participate in medicines optimisation, ward top-up and ward-based dispensing.

Through provision of an effective Pharmacy service and the training provided, this post will:

• Allow the post holder to gain the necessary skills and knowledge to register with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician
• Allow the post holder to gain a wide range of experience in various areas of the Pharmacy Department
• To strengthen organisational skills by co-ordination and prioritisation of work.

Please note the successful applicant must meet the essential criteria below:

Be able to produce certificates at interview to evidence a minimum of 5 GCSE’s grade C or above in Maths, English and Science.

• Have the right to live and work in the UK, in line with government apprenticeship guidance, sponsorship cannot be offered
• Undertake enrolment activities, leading to a successful offer to study
• Commit to study the full apprenticeship programme
• Attendance of training at the associated HEI is considered to be essential
• *** Failure to complete any aspect of the academic components within the set time scale will result in removal from the course and may impact on your ability to continue in the training post ***

The interview will include a numeracy and literacy test.

Please note the successful applicant must the essential criteria below ;

Be able to produce certificates to evidence the Essential Qualifications listed in the Person specification

• Have the right to live and work in the UK, in line with government apprenticeship funding rules, sponsorship cannot be offered
• Commit to study the full 2 year programme
• Must not have studied the same subject, at the same or higher level previously.

*** Failure to complete any aspect of the academic or clinical components within the set time scale will result in removal from the course and termination of the contract with Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital ***

Person specification

Qualifications

• 5 GCSEs, Grade 4 – 9 or A to C or equivalent two of which should be in English and Mathematics

Experience

• Previous experience of working in a Pharmacy or ‘customer orientated’ service
• Previous hospital experience

Skills and Abilities

• Able to work as a team member
• Ability to demonstrate working on own initiative
• Able to prioritise and work under pressure
• Good ability of computer systems and IT Skills
• Familiar with computer systems e.g. Excel spreadsheets and word

Knowledge

• Basic knowledge of hospital pharmacy
• Knowledge of Medicines Optimisation Principles

Disposition and Attributes

• Works efficiently and accurately
• Honest and trustworthy and able to maintain confidentiality at all times
• Self-motivated

We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and offer a range of flexible working practices. Part-time and job share applications will be considered.

You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points‑based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to RNOH transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems.

Additionally, by applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre‑employment checks your
identity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

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