Senior Pharmacy Technician

Papworthhospital; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at a leading cardiothoracic hospital dedicated to compassionate patient care. As a Pharmacy Technician, you'll play a vital role in delivering world-class services, enhancing patient outcomes through collaborative practice. This role offers opportunities for professional development in a supportive environment, including rotations through specialist areas. Be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your contributions are valued. If you're passionate about making a difference in patients' lives, this is the perfect opportunity to advance your pharmacy career.

Qualifications

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council is essential.
• Experience in a hospital or ward setting is preferred.
• Strong communication skills to convey clinical information.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care and medicines management.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for patient outcomes.
• Supervise and mentor junior staff in pharmacy practices.

Skills

Communication Skills

Numeracy Skills

Literacy Skills

Teamwork

Time Management

Education

BTEC and/or NVQ 3 in Pharmacy Services

Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

GCSE level or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Patient Record Databases

Job description

Join a world-leading team delivering compassionate, excellent, and collaborative care at Royal Papworth Hospital.

We are seeking a friendly, compassionate, and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician who shares our passion for making a meaningful difference to patients' lives. This is an exciting opportunity to work in one of the UK's leading cardiothoracic hospitals, where every team member plays a vital role in delivering world-class, patient-centred care.

In this role, you'll collaborate closely with our dynamic pharmacy and multidisciplinary teams across the hospital, providing direct patient care on the wards and contributing to seamless, safe, and effective medicines management. Your work will directly support our mission to deliver compassionate care with excellence, enhancing patient outcomes through collaborative practice.

At Royal Papworth Hospital, we are committed to your professional development. You'll benefit from a supportive learning environment with opportunities to rotate through specialist areas including surgery, cardiology, thoracic medicine, and our dispensary, broadening your skills and experience. You'll play an integral role in essential services such as discharge medicine preparation, medicines reconciliation, patient consultations, and continuous service improvement. Depending on your experience, you may also take on responsibilities in supervising and mentoring junior staff and pre-registration pharmacy professionals, nurturing the next generation of pharmacy talent.

We pride ourselves on fostering a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative workplace, where everyone's contributions are valued and respected. We believe that embracing diversity and working together strengthens our ability to deliver personalised, compassionate care of the highest standard.

Join us at Royal Papworth Hospital and take the next step in your pharmacy career, as part of a team dedicated to innovation, excellence, and compassionate collaboration for every patient, every day.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

BTEC and / or NVQ 3 in Pharmacy Services

Demonstrable numeracy and Literacy skills (GCSE level or equivalent)

Experience

Able to communicate clinical information to colleagues, patients and relatives on the phone, face to face and in written formats

Able to plan own and other team members workload

Able to work in a multi-disciplinary team and deal professionally with patients, relatives and colleagues

Aware of personal and professional limitations

Able to work calmly and efficiently under pressure

Able to respond to change and apply new developments without difficulty

Previous hospital experience

Previous ward experience

Additional Criteria

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Advances keyboard skills (Experience of Microsoft products)

Ability to apply the Trust's values and associated behaviour standard at all times

Experience of data input and output for other systems (e.g patient record databases)

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit theUK Visas and Immigration website .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact:

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Agenda for Change

Band

Band 5

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-Time, Full-Time

Reference number

175-2526-1-PH1264

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY