Senior Pharmacy Technician: Quality and Safety | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking an experienced registered pharmacy technician to join their Pharmacy Quality and Safety Team. This role focuses on patient safety, quality improvements, and offers opportunities for leadership development. The ideal candidate must have General Pharmaceutical Council Registration and strong communication skills. Aseptic services experience is essential. This position may involve working unsocial hours.

Benefits

Excellent Education and Training

Development opportunities

Physiotherapy and Occupational Health Support

Salary sacrifice scheme

Unsocial Hours Payment

Qualifications

• Experience in pharmacy services compliant with legislation.
• Ability to promote medication safety and governance.
• Capacity to contribute to training and development of staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive pharmacy service.
• Support the Quality and Safety Team.
• Assist in the day-to-day organization of aseptic preparation.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Education

General Pharmaceutical Council Registration

Job description

Overview

Are you searching for the next step in your pharmacy career? Are you highly motivated and passionate about patient and medication safety? We’re looking for an experienced registered pharmacy technician with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our Pharmacy Quality and Safety Team. You’ll have the opportunity to develop your leadership and management skills with incident review training, trend monitoring, project improvements and more. This role further expands to work within Aseptic services, providing a variety of experience. Your success is our success and we’ll support you in all your training and development endeavours. Working alongside the multidisciplinary teams, you’ll help ensure continuous process review and patient safety improvement.

You will be required to work on the late night, weekend and bank holiday rotas. You will also be required to work flexibly. For a more detailed overview of the role and person specification please see the supporting documents.

Responsibilities

• To provide a comprehensive pharmacy service complying with the relevant legislation, good practice and following standard operating procedures.
• To assist the Pharmacy Quality and Safety Team in promoting medication safety and governance Trust Wide.
• Support pharmacy and nursing staff in analysing, reporting on, reflecting, and learning from medication incidents.
• Assist in the day-to-day organisation of the service provided by the pharmacy aseptic preparation unit (APU) for the trusts, involving delivery of chemotherapy, and CIVAs products for both adult and paediatric patients.
• Deputise for the Deputy Lead Pharmacy Technician: Aseptic Services and Lead Pharmacy Technician: Quality and Safety.
• Assist in the training and development of others and performance management required to deliver a consistent and high standard of service to patients.
• Be a champion and advocate for medication safety, supporting both Pharmacy and the wider Trust.
• Reporting and reviewing medication incidents (LERNs) and sharing learning outcomes to reduce the risk of recurrence.
• Undertaking audits in clinical areas.
• Assisting with pharmacy staff Quality & Safety and Aseptic Training.
• Contributing to team meetings to improve medicines safety and governance.
• Suggesting changes to pharmacy practice and contribute to wider policies.
• To have specialised knowledge of Pharmacy operations within Cancer Services.
• Supervise and ensure that all areas of the aseptic unit are of an appropriate standard of cleanliness.
• To be a qualified designated aseptic checking Technician. To provide the final technical check for prepared cytotoxics/CIVAs products. This includes checking of ingredients, worksheet, label, drug volumes and product integrity. This is an unsupervised role taking responsibility for accuracy of final product provided.

Requirements

This role requires General Pharmaceutical Council Registration.

Location

Base Location: Poole Hospital

Interview

Interview Date: TBC

Organisational context

Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues. UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.

Relocation and travel

Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.

Benefits

• Excellent Education and Training
• Development opportunities
• Physiotherapy and Occupational Health Support
• Salary sacrifice scheme
• Unsocial Hours Payment

This advert closes on Wednesday 15 Oct 2025