Senior Pharmacy Technician – Clinical Services

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Job summary

Join Wye Valley NHS Trust as a Band 5 Senior Pharmacy Technician – Clinical Ward Based Services and play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care across our medical and surgical wards at Hereford County Hospital. Working as an integral member of the ward-based pharmacy team, you will support medicines optimisation through medicines reconciliation, assessing patients’ own drugs, facilitating timely discharges, providing medication counselling, and ensuring the safe and effective supply of medicines. You will work closely with pharmacists, nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes, safety and flow across the hospital. We are looking for a GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technician with an Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification, strong hospital pharmacy experience, excellent communication and organisational skills, and a passion for delivering exceptional patient care. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your clinical expertise, contribute to service improvement, support the training and development of colleagues, and be part of a team committed to Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence.

Main duties of the job

MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB

To work under the direction of the Lead Clinical Pharmacist and Lead Clinical Pharmacy Technicians for Ward Based Services, following established policies, procedures and Standard Operating Procedures. The post holder will be expected to organise and prioritise their own workload within the ward environment, referring to senior staff when necessary. Duties will include:

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ Level 3 or equivalent OR BTEC National Certificate in Pharmacy services or a recognised equivalent qualification to allow for compulsory registration.
  • Nationally recognised Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification or included as part of the Pharmacy Technician qualification post 2022
  • Recognised, current high level Medicines Management qualification or able to demonstrate equivalent experience
  • Evidence of CPD

Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrable knowledge of medicines optimisation processes including medicines reconciliation, discharging and patient counselling in a hospital setting
  • Ability to react to and manage the changing situation within the department on a daily basis and manage staff accordingly
  • Excellent communication and organisational skills
  • IT literate in Word, PowerPoint and Excel or equivalent programs. Excellent keyboard skills
  • Excellent time management skills.

Experience

Essential

  • Post registration experience in a hospital pharmacy
  • Experience of clinical audit

Desirable

  • Experience of project management.
  • Proven experience of creating and delivering training packages to multi disciplinary groups
  • Experience of leading on personnel selection, managing teams and individuals.

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: 26 July 2026

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