Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician - Virtual Wards

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

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Gillingham is seeking a Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician to support the delivery of Medicines Optimisation services in Virtual Wards. The successful candidate will collaborate with the pharmacy team and community partners to enhance patient care and ensure the safe use of medications. This role requires strong clinical pharmacy expertise, effective leadership, and a commitment to continuous improvement in service delivery.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Supportive team environment

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical pharmacy and leadership roles.
• Extensive experience in medicines optimisation within a clinical setting.
• Knowledge of NHS and integrated care systems.

Responsibilities

• Support the Lead Pharmacist for Virtual Wards in delivering Medicines Optimisation services.
• Develop protocols and training packages for the pharmacy service.
• Monitor and review service delivery with a focus on continuous improvement.

Skills

Medicines Optimisation

Clinical Pharmacy

Leadership

Training and Education

Education

BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or NVQ LEVEL 3

Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council

Level 4 Buttercups - Enhanced Practice Programme

Job description

Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician - Virtual Wards

Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician - Virtual Wards

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Operations Directorate

Band: 6

Interview Date: 16th December 2025

We are recruiting for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technicianwho 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

We are seeking a highly motivatedSpecialist Clinical Pharmacy Technicianto support the Lead Pharmacist for Virtual Wards in deliveringMedicines 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 areBold, 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 theBest 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

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.

To 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.

To write protocols and training packages for the service. To train and ensure competency for other pharmacy staff to provide the service.

To collect data and regularly review the service provided with a view to optimisation and continuous improvement of the service.

To undertake training in order to assess biochemical and pathological results and apply them to clinical situations, where appropriate.

To undertake training and education to support the role of the Specialist clinical pharmacy technician within virtual wards.

To proactively promote bespoke and novel services, presenting at conferences such as the Clinical Pharmacy Congress (CPC).

To recognise the limitations of their personal and professional practice.

Virtual wards

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.

Assessment of patients ability to take medication.

Assessment of patients own drugs as appropriate in accordance with the pharmacy procedure and assess their re-use.

Develop, maintain, and implement systems for identifying cohort of patients requiring medication reviews.

Identification and referral of pharmaceutical issues to the pharmacist or clinical team within Virtual Wards.

Provide governance support including the writing and review of relevant SOPs and polices within virtual wards.

Provide medicine optimisation, to include signposting potential prescribing and deprescribing to the virtual ward pharmacist.

To support with developing, 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 polices and SOPs.

Support, complete and action medicine related audits.

Develop education and training within virtual wards.

To be onboard and monitor patients via virtual monitoring system.

Develop the virtual wards service to implement innovate 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 patients 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 home

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registrant of the general pharmaceutical council
• BTEC in pharmaceutical Science or NVQ LEVEL 3 in pharmacy services, or a GPHC recognised equivalent qualification
• Level 4 Buttercups -Enhanced Practice Programme for pharmacy Technicians Or extensive experience of working in a clinical pharmacy/ specialist area.

Experience

• Leadership/management or relevant experience
• Extensive medicines optimisation experience in a clinical setting.

Knowledge

• Understanding and knowledge of NHS and how the integrated care systems work
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical care needs within virtual ward
• Understanding and knowledge of high cost drugs and blueteq process.

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 yearper annum/pro rata