Pharmacy Technician- Ward and Community Based Medicines Management

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge?

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and registered Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly, hard working and well established Medicine Management pharmacy team at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

As an MMT, you will be responsible for providing a safe, efficient and accurate ward based service for virtual ward and hospital in-patients including medicines reconciliation, patient counselling and ensuring safe and timely discharges.

Undertake further education and training to advance the role of Pharmacy Technicians within the department.

Support the work of the main dispensary in the provision of an extended hour’s service.

Will be expected to expand and broaden their skills and abilities.

Please note that this role includes cross site working, therefore ability to commute between sites is essential.

Main duties of the job

A technician is required to support the Ward Based team in our very busy pharmacy department. This challenging position combines the duties of ward work both for in-patients and virtual ward patients within our Community services team.

You must be able to prioritise and manage your own workload to provide a Medicines Management Service to both in-patients on the wards and those cared for by our Virtual Wards within community services.

Co-ordinate with other sections and members of the multi-disciplinary teams.

Participate in completion of Safe and Secure Handling of Medication (SASHM) and Controlled Drug audits.

To support with the supervision and training of assistants and students.

All applicants must have proven experience and ability of delivering pharmaceutical services within a pharmacy environment. Total flexibility of working hours is a necessity. Applications from community pharmacy technicians with the relevant qualifications may be considered as full training and support will be given.

Qualifications required are NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services, BTEC (Pharmaceutical Science), Level 3 Diploma in The Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

The applicant will be expected to be, or be working towards being, an ACT to routinely final accuracy check individually dispensed items for inpatients, discharges and controlled drugs within both the dispensary and ward environments.

Person Specification

Registration

Essential

  • GPHC registration

Desirable

  • Member of APTUK
  • Evidence of CPD

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of successfully delivering technical pharmacy services as a qualified and registered pharmacy technician

Desirable

  • Working within a hospital environment
  • Working within a community pharmacy team ie; PCN/PST
  • Successful completion of an external provider or in-house Medicines Reconciliation training package

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ Level 3 or BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or Level 3 Diploma in The Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians.

Desirable

  • ACT
  • Pharmacy Technician Clinical Diploma

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 12 July 2026

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