Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician - Specialist Medicine

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

Job summary

A leading NHS organization in Gillingham is seeking a Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician to provide outstanding leadership within a dynamic clinical team. This role prioritizes enhancing patient outcomes through effective medicines management and service delivery. The ideal candidate will possess significant clinical knowledge and experience, alongside strong leadership and communication skills. You will collaborate with diverse teams to drive improvements and contribute to innovative pharmacy practices, ensuring the highest standards of safety and quality in patient care.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working opportunities

Supportive environment for career development

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a clinical setting.
• Expert in patient consultations and documenting medicines reconciliations.
• Line management experience with supervisory skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership to clinical pharmacy technicians.
• Manage medicines in their area of specialty.
• Educate and train pharmacy staff.

Skills

Medicines optimisation

Patient consultation

Supervisory skills

Training and assessment

Education

Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

BTEC in pharmaceutical Science or NVQ Level 3

Higher level Leadership/clinical qualification

Job description

Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 6

Interview Date: Tuesday 3rd March 2026

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.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen and for a forward-thinking Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician with extensive clinical knowledge and experience to join our specialist medicine team. Candidates should be highly motivated, a team player and able work under pressure. This is a unique opportunity for a pharmacy technician who is clinically experienced and has excellent leadership skills.

In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes through medicines optimisation to ensure patient safety, and contribute to the development of innovative pharmacy services within care group.

This is an innovative role to utilise and further develop skills in leadership, team management and drive improvement and service delivery to support the clinical strategy for the department and trust.

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

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

• Provide operational leadership to clinical pharmacy technicians, ensuring effective ward cover and service delivery.
• To be responsible for medicines management in their area of specialty, working with relevant pharmacy, medical and nursing staff to deliver high quality pharmacy services to the clinical area
• To provide an advanced clinical pharmacy technician service to their speciality
• Be a leading clinical pharmacy technician expert in a defined area of speciality agreed with the lead clinical technician and lead clinical pharmacist for the area, collaboratively developing protocols and delivering the service (e.g. antimicrobial prescription review or Medical Infusion Suite (MIS) prescriptions).
• Line manage and contribute to the education and training of pharmacy staff, being an educational and practice supervisor where required.
• Proactively provide patient-facing services, including the counselling of patients.
• To work with the multidisciplinary team to educate, train and develop materials to support medicines governance, optimisation, formulary, safety and pathways.
• Review and present medicines use and expenditure data to drive change.
• To identify and implement efficiencies in operational processes and medicines use to reduce medicines expenditure and system wastage.
• Contribute to the department and Trusts audit and research agenda.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• BTEC in pharmaceutical Science or NVQ Level 3 in pharmacy services, or a GPHC recognised equivalent qualification
• Higher level Leadership/clinical qualification or relevant experience

Knowledge

• Understanding and knowledge of NHS and how the integrated care systems work.
• Understanding and knowledge of high cost drugs and blueteq process
• Knowledge of clinical practice at an advanced level. Or working towards

Experience

• Extensive medicines optimisation experience in a clinical setting
• Expert in completing patient consultations, counselling and documenting medicines reconciliations accurately
• Experience of managing staff, leadership

Skills

• Line management and supervisory skills
• Ability to advise, instruct, train, assess and appraisal of staff

Values Based Question

• Give an example of a time when you have gone the extra mile to help someone

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum/pro rata