Pharmacy Technician jobs in United Kingdom

A Vacancy at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

Are you an experienced Pharmacy Technician looking for a career change or your next challenge in an acute hospital trust?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our modern purpose-built facilities at Colchester hospital.

New investment has created this exciting opportunity for you to help the department develop and progress the clinical pharmacy service within Care of the Elderly and Frailty practice.

You will be based within the Pharmacy department but will spend a significant amount of time working at ward level; being fully integrated within the multidisciplinary team and ensuring the delivery of all aspects of pharmacy service to these high risk patients.

Our friendly pharmacy team are dedicated to nurturing, mentoring and developing our staff to reach their full potential. As well as direct one-to-one training, the department provides pharmacy forums, clinical huddles and other educational activity. We support personal development plans, smart objective setting and opportunities for study.

ESNEFT is about to embark on a full, site wide implementation of the EPIC electronic patient record which includes electronic prescribing and administration and pharmacy stock control system replacement.

https://esneft.pagetiger.com/buqzfou/1 - About our Pharmacy Service

Provide an advanced level clinical pharmacy service to Care of the Elderly and Frailty patients in line with the pharmacy Key Performance Indicators and agreed clinical standards.

Provide a key level of support to the Lead Clinical Pharmacist for Care of the Elderly patients.

Ensure optimum patient flow within the speciality by prioritising discharge and other key aspects of patient care; in accordance with Trust initiatives and procedures.

Provide ongoing clinical support and guidance to other pharmacy colleagues and the multidisciplinary team contributing to practice within the specific areas of working.

Assist senior multidisciplinary colleagues in ensuring that all required medication safety and clinical governance issues are actioned and implemented in a timely manner within the respected speciality

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring whats widely regarded as the worlds best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Thursday 5 Jun 2025