Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician

Medway NHS Foundation Trust; Brompton; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Brompton is seeking a Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician to lead and develop clinical pharmacy services. You will support virtual wards, ensuring efficient medication management and patient care. Candidates should have relevant pharmacy qualifications and experience. This role offers a competitive salary and an opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical pharmacy settings.
• Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.
• Competence in providing patient education.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop clinical pharmacy services.
• Manage pharmacy support for virtual wards.
• Conduct medicines reconciliation for patients.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Communication skills

Data analysis

Education

Relevant pharmacy qualification

Job description

We are seeking a highly motivated Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician to support the Lead Pharmacist for Virtual Wards in delivering Medicines Optimisation services across all patient pathways. This is an exciting opportunity to work at an advanced level within a growing and innovative service.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect them throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation

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 a 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Be a leading clinical pharmacy technician expert in a defined area of speciality agreed with the Lead Clinical Technician and Lead Virtual Pharmacist for the area, collaboratively developing protocols and delivering the service in virtual wards.
• Work closely with the Chief Pharmacy Technician and Lead Clinical Pharmacy Technician to develop a bespoke clinical pharmacy technician service in the area of speciality.
• Write protocols and training packages for the service.
• Train and ensure competency for other pharmacy staff to provide the service.
• Collect data and regularly review the service provided with a view to optimisation and continuous improvement of the service.
• Undertake training in order to assess biochemical and pathological results and apply them to clinical situations, where appropriate.
• Undertake training and education to support the role of the Specialist clinical pharmacy technician within virtual wards.
• Proactively promote bespoke and novel services, presenting at conferences such as the Clinical Pharmacy Congress (CPC).
• Recognise the limitations of their personal and professional practice.

Virtual Ward Responsibilities

• Support and manage the day-to-day pharmacy service provided to virtual wards, ensuring patients receive treatment within agreed timeframes.
• Support the lead pharmacist in promoting collaboration with community partners (community hospitals, GPs, community pharmacy, prisons, Medway and Swale local council) to improve medicines access for virtual hospital patients.
• Liaise with the virtual wards team to develop and implement innovative pathways that optimise working relationships between virtual wards and the pharmacy team.
• Provide a clinical pharmacy service to virtual wards, including medicines reconciliation, structured medication review and counselling.
• Assess patients' ability to take medication.
• Assess patients' own drugs as appropriate in accordance with the pharmacy procedure and assess their re-use.
• Develop, maintain, and implement systems for identifying cohorts of patients requiring medication reviews.
• Identify and refer pharmaceutical issues to the pharmacist or clinical team within Virtual Wards.
• Provide governance support including the writing and review of relevant SOPs and policies within virtual wards.
• Provide medicine optimisation, to include signposting potential prescribing and deprescribing to the virtual ward pharmacist.
• Support with developing and reviewing medicine prescribing, supply and administration pathways.
• Manage virtual ward and clinical rotas to ensure the virtual ward and clinical service is covered.
• Support and manage the virtual wards satellite pharmacy; ensuring medicines are dispensed, checked safely and accurately in line with policies and SOPs.
• Support, complete and action medicine related audits.
• Develop education and training within virtual wards.
• Be onboard and monitor patients via virtual monitoring system.
• Develop the virtual wards service to implement innovative new ways of working for pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants.
• Undertake technical and clinical verification of specific virtual ward prescriptions in accordance with local and national standards, following completion of competency-based training and assessment.
• Undertake clinical and practical management of patients on nebuliser wean in their own home, following completion of competency-based training and assessment.
• Undertake clinical and practical administration of intravenous antibiotics, following completion of competency-based training, assessment, intravenous drug administration training and anaphylaxis training, in line with the local policy.
• Provide patient education and counselling for patients within virtual wards, in line with local SOPs.
• Promote the safe, effective and economic use of medicines.
• Monitor and review blood results, referring out-of-range values to the virtual wards Pharmacist.
• Co‑ordinate with the Main Dispensary Manager and multidisciplinary teams, including virtual wards, to streamline delivery of Clinical Pharmacy Services.
• Work with the Lead Pharmacist for virtual wards and the Lead Clinical Pharmacy Technician to implement and manage compassionate use of medicines in line with Trust policy.
• Review, monitor and implement the virtual dispensing process to ensure efficiency, safety and compliance with standards.
• Conduct patient counselling and medicines reconciliation in patients' homes.

Job Details

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Operations Directorate
Band: 6
Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum/pro rata
Interview Date: 16th December 2025

We are recruiting for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.