Senior Pharmacy Technician (NHS AfC: Band 4) - Health Science Services - Manchester University [...]

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to assist in providing specialist pharmacy services. The role offers an engaging career opportunity with responsibilities including dispensing, patient counselling, and collaborating with healthcare professionals. Candidates must hold a BTEC and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences and be registered with the GPhC.

Qualifications

• Registered as a pharmacy technician with the GPhC.
• Experience in patient dispensing and accuracy checking.
• Ability to perform work procedures related to dispensary processes.

Responsibilities

• Assist Senior Pharmacy Technicians in providing pharmacy specialist services.
• Dispense a range of prescriptions and perform accuracy checking.
• Communicate effectively with medical and nursing staff.

Skills

Communication

Manual Dexterity

Education

BTEC and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences

BTEC Level 4 in Accuracy Checking Dispensed Medicines

Job description

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Main area Health Science Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Late Nights- one every 2 weeks and weekend working 1 in 5 weekends) Job ref 349-CSS-7177912*

Site Wythenshawe Hospital Town Manchester Salary £26,530 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 15/06/2025 23:59

Job overview

In this role, you’ll assist Senior Pharmacy Technicians in providing pharmacy specialist services such as inpatient dispensing, discharge dispensing, accuracy checking, patient counselling, ward stock and individual patient dispensed top-ups.

You’ll work alongside Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Technicians and Assistant Technical Officers, and effectively communicate with medical and nursing staff to ensure timely availability of medicines.

Following departmental, Trust and professional standards and protocols, and without direct supervision, you’ll support Senior Pharmacy Technicians if needed, and priorities your own, and junior staff’s, workloads. This will include dispensing a range of prescriptions, inpatient and complex regimens; accuracy checking; patient counselling; data input; and ward-based services such as discharge prescriptions.

This role involves working on weekends, late-nights and Bank Holiday rotas.

This is a progressive role which begins as a Band 4 but will progress to progress to Band 5 on completion agreed criteria.

Main duties of the job

You must hold a BTEC and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent (or be qualifying imminently) and be registered as a pharmacy technician with the GPhC. Ideally, you’ll also have a BTEC Level 4 in Accuracy Checking Dispensed Medicines or equivalent recognised qualification.

You’ll understand and be adept at performing a range of work procedures and practices that require underpinning theoretical knowledge of dispensary processes, controlled drugs legislation, and medicines storage and security.

Confident and accurate in the dispensing process and computer software, you’ll be manually dexterous and able to communicate clearly with everyone from healthcare providers to the general public. You’ll be organising your day and workload, so you’ll need to be able to work independently, too.

If you have a mature attitude, a team player, and committed to professional development in a healthcare setting, this could be your next best career move.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail] .

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Qualifications

• BTEC and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent (2 Years)
• Registered or due to registered as a pharmacy technician with the GPhC
• BTec Level 4 in Accuracy Checking Dispensed Medicines (1 year) or equivalent recognised qualification

Knowledge

• Understand and perform a range of work procedures and practices which require underpinning theoretical knowledge including: - Dispensary processes - Controlled Drugs legislation - Medicines storage and security

Training and Experience

• Evidence of CPD
• In Patient Dispensing top-up
• Controlled Drug dispensing

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 Lillian Partington Job title Senior Pharmacy Technician for Ward Services Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0161 291 3376 Additional information