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Medicine Optimisation and Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
455-NLFT-0701
Employer
North London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Chase Farm Hospital - Mental Health
Town
Enfield
Salary
£35,763 - £43,466 Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/04/2026 23:59

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Medicine Optimisation and Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician

Band 5

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we: 

  • Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
  • Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
  • Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
  • Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
  • Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
  • Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer.  We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is:  https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/ 

As a values‑driven Trust, we recruit through our values. Our selection processes focus on behaviours, attitudes, and examples that reflect our organisational values and commitment to compassionate, high‑quality care.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.

We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.

Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit  https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

North London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and requires applicants to provide accurate information, as misleading details may affect their application or employment and may be verified in line with the Fraud Act 2006. For further information please visit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.

 

Job overview

To provide a highly specialist patient focused technical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and community teams within the North London NHS Foundation Trust.

The post-holder will work at Chase Farm Pharmacy to provide a quality medicines optimisation service. This will include the assessment of patient’s own drugs, medicines reconciliation, transcribing, consultations with patients about their medicines and coordinating the supply of discharge medication.

The post-holder required to cover Edgware Community Hospital as needed and other trust wide sites.

 

 

Main duties of the job

•    Supporting the Lead Pharmacist in delivering the medicines optimisation agenda.  
•    Visiting wards to facilitate medicines reconciliation for new admissions. 
•    Providing advice on medicines to patients and carers.  
•    Assessing patients’ own medicines for use during the inpatient stay (POD checks)  
•    To transcribe details of required medicines from inpatient drug charts to requisition sheets via the ePMA system

· To provide discharge medication counselling and discharge medication service referral


•    Practice supervision of trainees (PTPTs and trainee pharmacists) on the wards/units including supporting ward-based training, monitoring training logs completion and supporting the administration of summative assessments.  
•    Helping to ensure that all activities within the area of work comply with departmental standard operating procedures which will help to develop and/ or review 
•    The promotion of clinical governance through ward/team-based clinical audits.  



 
 

 

Working for our organisation

Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?  

We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart. 


Our Five-Year Strategy:  

1.    We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2.    With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for
all
3.    We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver
outstanding care            
4.    We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement 
and technology.


Why NLFT?  

•    Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.  
•    We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.  
•    We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives. 
•    NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme  
•    We have excellent internal staff network support groups.  

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please  refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details about the role.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Hospital dispensary and ward experience

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria
  • Current GPhC Registration on the Pharmacy Technicians’ Register.
  • NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy Services or suitable equivalent
  • Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
  • Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician Qualification
  • AIMMS Qualification or HEE Medicine Management Module completion

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria
  • Awareness of the role of medicines optimisation in advancing individualised care
  • Knowledge of local and national policies which influence the provision of pharmacy services
  • Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
Desirable criteria
  • Experience in completing medicines reconciliations
  • Evidence of working without direct supervision and managing own workload
  • Involvement in project work

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work with other healthcare professionals
  • Excellent, adaptable communication skills both written and verbal
  • Ability to support people to make informed decisions in relation to their health and well-being through medication choices

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential criteria
  • Should include team working, interpersonal skills and written and verbal skills, importance of a positive “can do” attitude and a positive attitude to change

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Essential criteria
  • The ability to travel to a variety of sites within the Trust is essential
  • Able to work Saturday, Bank Holiday and other rotas

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleJob share policyAge positiveImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare Leaver CovenantStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Step into healthAccredited Living Wage Employer

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Srinath Bejjenki
Job title
Lead Technician for Education & Training
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0208 702 4994
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