Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 4 - Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: We would consider a band 4 to 5 progression pathway for the right candidate
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 201-25-535
- Employer
- Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Various community hospitals within Cornwall
- Town
- TBC
- Salary
- £26,530 - £36,483 Per Annum/Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician
Band 4 - Band 5
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
Strategic Themes
Great Care
- Care based on what matters to people.
- Care provided at home or close to home.
- Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
- Prevention and alternatives to hospital.
Great Organisation
- Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
- Technology enabled care.
- Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
- Safe, efficient, effective and productive.
Great People
- A place people love to work and feel valued.
- Living our values with staff (all voices count).
- Attract, grow and develop talent.
- Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.
Great Partner
- Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
- Joined-up community services.
- Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
- Reduce our impact on the environment.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job overview
Are you a Pharmacy Technician seeking a rewarding and dynamic role where you can contribute to patient safety and work as part of a multidisciplinary team across both hospital and community services? If you're looking for variety and a focus on clinical care, this is the role for you!
You'll provide clinical pharmacy services to Community Hospitals across Cornwall. Your base location is negotiable, though travel to other sites will be required. Working patterns, including a rolling weekend rota, are flexible and open to discussion for the right candidate.
We aim to recruit at Band 5, but we are open to a Band 4 to 5 development opportunity for suitable applicants.
This varied role will require working independently and collaboratively within the wider pharmacy team. As a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician, you’ll support medicines reconciliation, prescription reviews, discharge facilitation, ward-based dispensing, medication recycling, patient counselling, and audits across both physical and mental health inpatient teams.
Please note: If you require sponsorship, check eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) on the gov.uk website before applying.
Main duties of the job
To provide a comprehensive medicines management service to patients on these wards which includes medicines reconciliation, prescription review and endorsement, recycling of medication, supporting self-medication and, where necessary, patient and carer counselling.
· To participate in multi-disciplinary activities such as attending ward handover meetings and facilitation and preparation of discharge medication including the handover of information regarding a patient’s medication to other healthcare professionals if required.
· To work with the pharmacy team in delivering clinical pharmacy and safe systems of working with medicines across other community hospital and mental health sites.
· To supervise and support with education and training activities such as student technicians, student pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists
· To specialise if the opportunity arises as per service needs and personal interest (for example, Parkinson’s, Medicines Safety)
This post will support hospitals within Cornwall. Base location can be negotiated but there will be a requirement to travel to other peripheral hospitals.
Working for our organisation
We are a NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification, including the main responsibilities of this role, please see ‘supporting documents’.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 in pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent
- Current and continued registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
- Accredited checking Technician status
- Accredited Medicines Management Technician status
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working within Standard Operating Procedures
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within community hospital settings
Knowledge and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to understand and empathise with people suffering from mental health illness
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Morwenna Williams
- Job title
- Lead Technician for Medicines Optimisation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07788396235
- Additional information
Please note we are not accepting any communication from Recruitment Agencies at the current time. Please refrain from Sending the Trust CV’s as this does not count as an introduction.
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