Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

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Job summary

A prominent NHS trust in London seeks a Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician to manage a dynamic pharmacy team. The role involves providing efficient medicines management across various departments, supporting staff training, and ensuring safe medication practices. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications, hospital pharmacy experience, and strong interpersonal skills. This full-time position offers a supportive environment with a focus on patient safety and continuous professional development.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Support for continuous professional development

Qualifications

• Must be a registered pharmacy technician with GPHC.
• Experience required in hospital pharmacy.
• Experience of line managing other pharmacy staff is needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide a highly efficient medicines management service.
• Promote safe and cost-effective use of medicines.
• Support provision and expansion of the pharmacy technician service.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Familiarity with medicines management initiatives

Ability to use initiative

Flexible approach to working methods

Education

BTEC/NVQ level 3 in Pharmaceutical sciences

Registered with the GPHC

Completion of recognised management course

Tools

CMM/Cerner/Omnicell

Job description

Main area Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician Grade 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 337-NP-9233DG

Employer London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Northwick Park Hospital Town London Salary £44,485 - £52,521 per annum inclusive HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 16/12/2025 23:59

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us #WeAreLNWH

Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy

We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.

Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.

• H onesty
• A ccountability
• T eamwork
• R espect
• E nergisem
• T ransparency

These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.

LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

• Provide a highly efficient medicines management service to a variety of wards within the Acute, Medicine, Care of the Elderly and Women’s and Children’s departments.
• Promote a safe, efficient and cost-effective use of medicines at ward level.
• Support the provision and expansion of the medicines management pharmacy technician service across the Trust
• Line manage and supervise other MMPTs
• Assist in the induction, training, supervision, and support of new members of pharmacy staff.
• Assist in the training of healthcare staff on all aspects of medicines management at ward level.
• Participate in audits relating to medicines management.
• Complete medicines reconciliations within a timely manner
• Assess patients own drugs (PODs) for suitability for use.
• Order ‘one stop dispensing’ medications in a timely manner to promote the dispensing for discharge scheme.
• Final accuracy check clinically screened prescriptions for a minimum of eight hours per month in the main dispensary or on the satellite pharmacies to maintain the accredited checking pharmacy technician (ACPT) competency.
• Provide advice to patients, representatives and healthcare professionals on all medication issues in order to achieve the best outcomes for the patients.
• Provide technical support to the satellite pharmacies and the main dispensary
• To be responsible for own Continuing Professional Development and training development.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our ward based clinical pharmacy services. We are looking for someone with experience and a passion in this area of work in hospital pharmacy. You must be an enthusiastic, motivated and a patient orientated pharmacy technician dedicated to patient safety.

You will work with the medicines management team to help implement, deliver and continually improve the technical and clinical support to wards and satellite units.

You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team. You will also need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and be committed to continuous professional development.

You will be a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council Pharmacy Technician and have experience of line managing other members of staff.

This is a full time post and the post holder will be required to participate in the weekend working and late duties as per rota.

Working for our organisation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• BTEC/NVQ level 3 in Pharmaceutical sciences
• Registered with the GPHC
• Evidence of CPD
• Completion of recognised management course
• Practice supervisor/Education supervisor/NVQ Assessor
• BTEC level 4

Knowledge and experience

• Hospital pharmacy experience
• Knowledge of medicines management initiatives
• Experience of line management/leading teams
• Experience of auditsKnowledge of CMM/Cerner/Omnicell
• Experience of working in satellite pharmacies

Personal

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Highly developed interpersonal skills (written and verbal)
• Ability to use initiative and problem solve
• Flexible approach to working methods

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We promote the wellbeing and safety of all our patients and carers by acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately, according to the standards determined by our policy and procedures. All posts working with vulnerable groups will be subject to an enhanced criminal records check upon appointment and staff will need to give their consent for the Trust to receive regular updates on their criminal records status throughout their employment.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Our employment checking processes require that all shortlisted applicants provide the contact details of their current HR Department. If shortlisted you will be sent an email reminder to present the contact details of your HR Department at the interview.

Please note the Trust uses identity checking software for verifying the authenticity of identity documents provided by candidates.

As part of our commitment to the Equality and Diversity at LNWUH, we are encouraging applications from BME (Black ,Minority Ethnic) candidates as we seek to ensure our workforce structures are representative of the diversity of the communities we serve.

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.

Name Malcolm Smith Job title Principal Pharmacy Technician Medicines Management Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02088693442