Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2494
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £38,488 - £46,852 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician
Band 5
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
If you’re a GPhC registered Pharmacy Technician who thrives in a fast paced clinical environment and enjoys contributing to real time clinical decision making, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
We are seeking a motivated and experienced Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician (MMPT) to join our expanding clinical pharmacy team within one of the UK’s leading NHS Trusts. This role is based across St Mary’s Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital, where you will play a key role in delivering high quality clinical pharmacy services at the frontline of patient care.
You will work closely with Emergency Medicine, Acute Medical Unit (AMU) and Elderly Medicine wards, supporting medicines optimisation and safe use of medicines in a demanding and rewarding clinical setting.
As part of a forward thinking, multidisciplinary team (MDT), you will collaborate with pharmacists, doctors, nurses, occupational therapists and other allied health professionals to ensure the safe, effective and efficient use of medicines.
Main duties of the job
- Assisting in the delivery of a high-quality, patient-focused medicines management service, supporting the clinical pharmacy team to ensure safe and effective medication use across the wards.
- Leading and coordinating the safe and efficient supply of medicines, including stock management, use of patients’ own drugs, individual patient dispensing, and discharge medication planning.
- Supporting the clinical discharge process, ensuring accurate and timely provision of medication, counselling patients on their prescribed treatments, and promoting adherence.
- Playing a key role in educating and empowering patients about their medication to support understanding, safety, and compliance.
- Contributing to service improvements in line with local and national NHS requirements, working closely with the Senior Lead Technician and Pharmacist to support development and implementation of ward-based initiatives.
- Collaborating with doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, and other allied health professionals as a respected member of the multidisciplinary team.
- Delivering education and training sessions on medicines management to other healthcare professionals, supporting a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
- Providing supervision and guidance to junior staff, including Ward-based Assistant Technical Officers (ATOs),Trainee pharmacists and assisting in their development.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Registered Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC
- NVQ level 3 Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (QCF) and relevant underpinning knowledge (BTEC Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science) /AIMMs /MOP’s accreditation or equivalent (or within 6 months of starting job role be working towards completion within 9 months of commencement of the HEE Medicines Optimisation Programme
- ACPT or recognised accredited pharmacy technician checking qualification (or to be achieved within 12 months of commencement)
- Mandatory professional CPD as defined by the GPhC
Desirable criteria
- Qualified NVQ assessor
- Completed NHS England / CPPE Self- Development programme
- Member of APTUK
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience of working in a UK hospital; this must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy
- Experience of pharmacy computer systems
- Experience of working as a ward based-technician
Desirable criteria
- Experience of CMM pharmacy system
- Experience of using electronic prescribing systems e.g. Cerner
- Experience of training others
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience of providing patient consultations with regard to medications
- Strong organisational, prioritisation, and time management skills
- Good knowledge of main roles and practice of pharmacy staff
- Awareness of national and local healthcare priorities
Desirable criteria
- Leadership and delegation skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rosina Asihene
- Job title
- Lead Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3312 5025
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