Rotational Pharmacy Technician

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

27 days holiday + bank holidays

Health & wellbeing services

Cycle to work

Car lease scheme

Flexible working

Staff networks

Job summary

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust is seeking a Pharmacy Technician (or soon-to-qualify) to join our Pharmacy Team. The role covers inpatient dispensing, clinical trials, and ward-based medicines management across multiple hospital sites.

You will work mainly at Pinderfields Hospital and across Pontefract and Dewsbury hospitals, contributing to patient care, stock control, and medicine safety. NHS experience and dispensing training are essential.

Qualifications

• BTEC Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent.
• Experience in NHS or equivalent in a related area.
• Evidence of training in dispensing procedures.

Responsibilities

• Dispense and issue medicines to patients using prescriptions.
• Maintain stock control data in paper and computerised systems.
• Liaise with procurement about urgently required medicines and delays.
• Dispense clinical trial medications and complete required documentation.
• Dispense hospital-only and unlicensed medicines with detailed records.
• Educate patients about treatment changes and self-administration where appropriate.
• Communicate with GPs, pharmacists, and carers to ensure seamless care.
• Ensure safe discharge with appropriate medicines at home.
• Train nursing staff on medicine management policies.

Skills

Dispensing procedures

Ward-based medicines management

Clinical communication

Education

BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Pharmacy Technicians

Tools

Pharmacy Information System (PIS)

Job description

Contact information

For any additional information please do not hesitate to contact either

Louise Benton ([e-mail]) Pharmacy Lead for Education and Training.

Paul Armitage ([e-mail]) Specialist Pharmacy Technician Education, Training and Digital.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, well-motivated qualified Pharmacy Technician (or a Pre-registration Pharmacy Technician due to qualify soon) to join our friendly, progressive, Pharmacy Team.

Duties include dispensing for in-patients including clinical trials and controlled drugs in the dispensary and delivering a high-quality ward-based medicines management service to a multitude of areas throughout the Trust. You will also gain experience from working in our busy Technical Services department preparing chemotherapy, intravenous and TPN preparations.

The successful candidate will be based mainly at Pinderfields Hospital, the largest of our three hospital sites, but will also be required to work across the Trust at Pontefract Hospital and Dewsbury and District Hospital.

Main duties

• Dispense and issue medicines to patients, using actual or faxed prescriptions, ensuring that all the necessary information is available.
• Ensure that all information needed for accurate stock control and prescription issues data is recorded using both paper systems and the computerised Pharmacy Information System (PIS).
• Liaise with Procurement staff about urgently required medicines and informing patients and other health care staff about supply problems / delays.
• Dispense clinical trial medication and complete all required documentation following the defined Standard Operating Procedures.
• Dispense specialist hospital-only medicines and unlicensed medicines which require accurate, detailed records.
• Help to educate the patient about treatment changes and the best way in which they can manage their own medicines, where appropriate, through self-administration schemes.
• Where appropriate, liaise and communicate with the patients PCT, GP, Community Pharmacist and/or carers in order to ensure seamless care by accurate transmission of medicines-related information, in both directions.
• At the point of discharge, ensure that the contents of the patient’s medicines locker are safe and appropriate for the patient to take home.
• Work closely with and train the nursing staff on all medicine management policies.

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

Essential person specification requirements

Qualifications

• BTEC Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent

Experience

• Experience in NHS or equivalent in a related area.
• Evidence of training in dispensing procedures

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

Be part of MY team

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.

Our benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

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