Senior Pharmacy Technician: Quality, Safety and Aseptic Services

Integrated Care System; England; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Pharmacy Technician to join their Pharmacy Quality and Safety Team. This role offers valuable experience in medication safety, leadership training, and process improvement within a multidisciplinary environment. The successful candidate will be registered and have extensive experience in delivering training and enhancing patient safety.

Benefits

Excellent Education and Training

Physiotherapy and Occupational Health Support

Salary sacrifice scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in primary or secondary care pharmacy.
• Extensive NHS hospital pharmacy technician experience.
• Familiar with audits and data collection.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive pharmacy service and comply with legislation.
• Assist in promoting medication safety across the Trust.
• Train and develop pharmacy staff.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Medication safety

Leadership skills

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science

BTEC in Pharmacy Services

Registration to The General Pharmaceutical Council

Tools

EPMA

WellSky software

Datix

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Pharmacy Technician: Quality, Safety and Aseptic Services

The closing date is 23 July 2025

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.

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities will be to:

• 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.

As a Trust we can offer you a wide range of benefits including:

• Excellent Education and Training
• Physiotherapy and Occupational Health Support
• Salary sacrifice scheme

This role requires General Pharmaceutical Council Registration.

Base Location: Poole Hospital

Interview Date: TBC

About us

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.

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.

Job responsibilities

• 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.

To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Pharmaceutical Science and BTEC in Pharmacy Services
• Registration to The General Pharmaceutical Council
• Root cause analysis training

Experience

• Working in primary or secondary care
• Extensive and broad experience as an NHS hospital pharmacy technician
• Good experience in delivering education and training to a variety of staff
• Good experience of undertaking audits, data collection and implementing change
• Experience of delivering medicines safety improvements
• Neat, accurate, numerate
• Basic I.T. skills
• Experience using EPMA
• Knowledge of WellSky software
• Familiar with using Datix and extracting reports

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.

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust