Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2442
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hammersmith Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,259 - £45,356 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - Cardiac Services
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
Fast forward your pharmacy career at Imperial. We are seeking a highly motivated Band 5 Senior Pharmacy Technician to join our expanding cardiology pharmacy team here at Hammersmith Hospital.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, forward thinking technician to make a meaningful impact on patient care across our inpatient wards and clinical areas.
In this varied and rewarding role, you will lead medicines reconciliation, support safe and effective medicines use, optimise ward based stock management, and contribute to timely discharge planning. You will work closely with clinical pharmacists, nursing teams and the wider multidisciplinary workforce to ensure high quality, patient centred pharmaceutical care.
You will also play a key part in developing the next generation of pharmacy staff by providing education, training, supervision and clinical support to trainees, technicians, assistants and other healthcare professionals. As an Accredited Checking Technician (or working towards), you will support safe dispensary operations and accuracy checking as part of the rota.
The role also includes opportunities to contribute to audits, service improvement, policy development and governance activities, helping to shape and enhance Medicines Management across the Trust.
Applicants should be a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. You should have completed relevant accreditations.
Main duties of the job
- To assist in the provision of a high-quality patient focused medicines management service to patients within cardiac services
- To develop, maintain and manage the safe, efficient and cost-effective supply of medicines to patients on the wards
- To co-ordinate the use of patient’s own medication, individual patient dispensing, discharge planning and patient education on medicines
- To support the cardiac pharmacy team with the delivery of any service developments associated with ward-based clinical pharmacy service required to meet local and national requirements
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.
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 / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC
- NVQ level 3 Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (QCF) and relevant underpinning knowledge in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent
- Mandatory professional CPD as defined by the GPhC
Desirable criteria
- AIMMS or MOPs accreditation
- ACPT or recognised accredited pharmacy technician checking qualification
- Qualified NVQ assessor / Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement
- LPE&T pharmacy technician self-development scheme stage 2 or equivalent
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 audit
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working as a ward based-technician
- Experience of CMM pharmacy system
- Experience of using electronic prescribing systems e.g. Cerner
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Experience of providing patient consultations with regard to medications
- Good knowledge of main roles and practice of pharmacy staff
- Able to teach and supervise others
- Able to evaluate and improve service quality
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates e-mail etiquette
- Computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,) to an advanced level
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Ambereen Ajaz
- Job title
- Lead Cardiology Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
List jobs with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in Health Science Services or all sectors