Medicines Optimisation Technician: Sponsorship Available

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust

Job summary

We are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated pharmacy technician with the potential and desire to develop through an exciting and varied role in Critical Care and Theatres. Depending on the post holder there is also the option to provide service to other clinical areas.

Our pharmacy medicines optimisation teams provide near patient services such as medicines reconciliation, drug history taking and discharge facilitation. Critical care cares for the sickest patients in the Trust and offers unique opportunities to challenge usual medicines management processes. Theatres are also an area of practice that offers new and exciting opportunities different to you would see on a standard ward. We are a dynamic department and have invested in new technologies such as electronic prescribing and robotics.

The post holder will cover both Critical Care, Theatres and potentially other clinical areas across RCHT and may need to be flexible to cover leave and sickness

There is also weekend working of one weekend day every 5 weeks with a day off in lieu.

Main duties of the job

To dispense for in-patient, out-patient and patient discharge, including oral cytotoxic medication and controlled drugs.

To perform controlled drug stock checks and investigate discrepancies as required, reporting any unresolved deviations to your line manager.

Perform accurate drug histories and medicines reconciliations for patients at RCHT including critically unwell patients on the ICU and/or EPOC.

To ensure accuracy of work during all stages of the dispensing process and to pass the Southwest dispensing accuracy assessment every 2 years.

To ensure records and controls are correctly maintained using the pharmacy computer system and paper records and by following the Pharmacy Archive procedure.

Ensuring high quality medicines management across Critical Care and Theatres through regular checks and auditing of medicines storage including fridge and controlled medicines.

To work closely with the pharmacy stores team to ensure appropriate stock is available at point of patient care and levels are adjusted based on acuity of critical care and theatres.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Pharmacy Technician’s GHPC.
  • Pharmacy Technician Certificate through City & Guilds, Apothecaries Hall, BTEC or NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science
  • Accredited Checking or Medicines Optimisation Accreditation
  • The second accreditation underway; either Accredited Checking Technician status or Medicines Optimisation

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience in a hospital pharmacy

Desirable

  • Experience of Top Up systems

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: 23 August 2026

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