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Pharmacy Technician
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Job share
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Late duties weekend and bank holiday working as per rota)
Job ref
434-SCS7630620
Employer
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Stoke Mandeville Hospital (with cross site working)
Town
Aylesbury
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/03/2026 23:59

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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust logo

Pharmacy Technician Dispensary Manager

Band 6

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

  • Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
  • Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
  • Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
  • Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer. 

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

Are you a proactive Pharmacy Technician looking to develop into a leadership role? We are offering a fantastic Band 5 to Band 6 progression opportunity to become our next Dispensary Manager.

Starting at Band 5, you will receive tailored support, training, and mentorship as you work through a structured development pathway designed to prepare you for a Band 6 role. Once you have successfully completed the required competencies and training - typically within 12 months-you will step into the full Band 6 Dispensary Manager position.

Technicians interested in this position are required to bring with them motivation, an enthusiasm to promote new ideas, a determination to succeed in a challenging environment, the ability to remain calm under pressure and a commitment to future developments in pharmacy services, the perfect role for someone who is looking to grow lead and make a real impact on our dispensary services.

Main duties of the job

·        Assists the Team Leader for dispensary services with the planning, development, monitoring, audit, evaluation, and delivery of the dispensary service across the Trust. Ensure that working practices meet requirements of medicines legislation, professional, local, and national guidelines and implement changes, thereby ensuring the delivery of a comprehensive, high-quality service.

·        Contribute to the strategic plan for dispensary operations including change management projects and adopting new models of working including with EPMA systems.

·  Provide professional leadership and management in all aspects of dispensary services for all staff members who work within the dispensary environment. This includes pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians, trainee pharmacists and support workers.

·    Ensure that appropriate training is provided for all staff working in the dispensary and training records are maintained and available when required.

·    Assist with stock management and financial control of costs within the dispensary service, including maintaining appropriate and efficient staffing levels, and reducing waste through the avoidable expiration of medicine and use of resources.

·     Assist the Team Leader for dispensary services to manage the day to day running of the dispensary service and rotas

·  Deputise for the Team Leader for dispensary services, providing technical leadership

Working for our organisation

Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! - BHT - A great place to work (buckshealthcare.nhs.uk)

 What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

  • As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
  • We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.  
  • We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

 

 Why work for us?

  • We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
  • As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
  • Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
  • A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who knows the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

 What do we stand for?

  • Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
  • Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
  • Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference numbers

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC
  • Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification
Desirable criteria
  • Line management training/qualification
  • MMT/CIPs/PIPC
  • Project management

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant NHS hospital pharmacy experience
  • Experience of Line management
  • Experience of change management
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of managing a team

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Write and implement SOPs
  • negotiate difficult situations
  • Computer literate
  • Organisational skills
  • Manage staff through HR processes
Desirable criteria
  • Work as a team leader
  • Motivate self and others

Special Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Ability to travel between sites

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoPositive about disabled peopleArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerStep into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kristi Anderson
Job title
Chief Pharmacy Technician
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01296316383
Additional information

Shivaughn McEwan

Dispensary Team Leader 

[email protected]

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