Senior Pharmacy Technician - Aseptic Services

NHS; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A major health organization in Gillingham is seeking an experienced Aseptic Pharmacy Technician to join their dynamic Pharmacy Services team. The role involves managing the Aseptic pharmacy service, training staff, and ensuring safe medication practices. Candidates should possess a BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent, along with excellent communication and organizational skills. The position offers a salary range of £31,049 to £37,796 per year.

Qualifications

• Previous Aseptic experience required.
• Understanding of hospital pharmacy environment essential.
• Ability to train less experienced staff and students.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing the Aseptic pharmacy service.
• Ensure timely treatment for patients.
• Delegate duties to pharmacy technicians and assistants.

Skills

Good technical skills

Excellent communication skills

Good organization skills

Methodical and able to prioritize workload

Good team worker

Education

BTEC in Pharmaceutical science or equivalent

NVQ 3 in pharmacy services or equivalent

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Tools

Core Office programs

Job description

Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 5

Interview Date: 16th October 2025

We're looking for an experienced, passionate, motivated Aseptic Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic Pharmacy Services team. This is a unique opportunity to work as part of the Aseptic unit pharmacy team.

Be part of a highly specialised Aseptic pharmacy service, providing advanced pharmaceutical care to Aseptic Pharmacy Service.

Undertake training to safely compound chemotherapy.

Help drive improvements in patient outcomes, medicines safety, and service efficiency across our Trust.

Main duties of the job

Be a specialist Aseptic pharmacy technician expert in a defined area of speciality developing and delivering an Aseptic pharmacy service.

Support and manage the day-to-day pharmacy Aseptic service provided to Lawrence Ward and Galton Day Unit, ensuring patients receive treatment within agreed timeframes.

Act independently as a Team Leader and work according to local procedures and guidelines. Allocate and check work of technicians, assistants in your team, referring to the Principal Technician for further assistance, guidance and support.

To manage the daily planning and organisation of workload & staff within your team to ensure a prompt and responsive service, adhering to all national, regional and departmental standards.

Participate in the general organisation of the Pharmacy Aseptic Suite to ensure that there is a safe and effective workflow and the Aseptic Suite is always neat and tidy.

Contribute to the induction and in-house training of staff of all grades, in aseptic technique and daily organisation, demonstrating the high levels of dexterity and accuracy required.

To participate in the maintenance of up to date training records for technical staff.

To perform as an Aseptic pharmacy technician "authorised accuracy checker", maintaining an appropriate level of competency

About us

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B - Bold

E - Every person counts

S - Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Job responsibilities

To be responsible for the completion of workload schedules informing Principal Technician of any discrepancies or issues as they arise.

To assist the Principal Technician planning, organising and managing the workload in accordance with the capacity plan, ensuring adequate numbers of appropriately trained staff are available to perform tasks required for a given activity level and feeding back information to Senior managers when breaches and constraints occur

Ensures adherence to environmental monitoring schedules in accordance with departmental procedures.

Ensures that an efficient aseptic dispensing and distribution service is provided to patients and staff which is in line with current standards and conforms to agreed service deadlines within the service level.

To be responsible for ensuring Aseptic Services administrative duties are carried out appropriately by Technical staff including the filing and archiving of information and data.

Complies with all legal requirements relating to the prescribing, dispensing and storage of pharmaceutical products and works to the relevant standard operating procedures at all times and in accordance with criteria set out under COSHH regulations

Promotes team working within the Aseptic Services team.

Keeps team informed of changes throughout preparation sessions.

To be self-motivated and committed as a team leader promoting staff development and to support all levels of staff working in accordance with local SOPs and guidelines

Ensures that essential information is communicated effectively to all aseptic staff and customers and to other pharmacy staff in a timely manner.

To act as a professional role model and develop positive relationships with key personnel both internally and externally to the department.

To work with the Principal Pharmacy Technician to ensure the aseptic service is organised and runs efficiently ensuring effective communication occurs to ensure all staff are up dated with changes which may affect capacity.

Liaises with wards and departments regularly to ensure patients treatments are provided in a timely manner.

To be responsible for the organisation and supervision of the daily work of the staff working in your Aseptic Services team.

To undertake the preparation of aseptic products in accordance with current NHS standards.

To participate in the developing of procedures and policies.

To assist with the training and assessment of new staff and continual improvements in accordance with the departmental Pharmaceutical Quality System.

To assist in implementation of changes in working practices and involvement in on-going development and review of SOPs.

Responsible for co-ordinating staffing to ensure appropriate skill mix and technical staff allocation throughout Aseptic Services liaising with the Principal Technician to identify any issues.

To delegate daily duties to pharmacy technicians and assistants.

To participate in the training and assessment of Aseptic Services staff in accordance with National, Regional and local requirements

Person Specification

Qualifications

• BTEC in Pharmaceutical science or equivalent
• NVQ 3 in pharmacy services or equivalent
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Knowledge

• Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures acquired though training, NVQ3, BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent level
• Knowledge of COSHH
• Knowledge of GMP and Aseptic Dispensing

Experience

• Previous Aseptic experience
• Understanding of hospital pharmacy environment
• Understanding of working effectively within multidisciplinary group

Skills

• Good technical skills
• Good organisation skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) with healthcare professionals and patients
• IT literacy including core Office programs
• Methodical and able to prioritise workload
• Good time management
• Ability to analyse information to provide advice
• Good team worker and works effectively within multidisciplinary team
• Ability to follow policies
• Ability to wear personal protective equipment and work in a restrictive clean room environment
• Ability to train less experienced staff and students

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.

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum/pro rata