Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2459
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,259 - £45,356 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Senior 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
Are you a qualified and GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technician looking for your next rewarding challenge?
Do you have a passion for delivering high-quality, patient-centred medicines management services?
If so, we would be delighted to hear from you!
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician (MMPT) to join our expanding team within one of the UK’s leading NHS Trusts. Based primarily at Charing Cross Hospital, with cross-site working at Hammersmith and St Mary’s Hospitals, you will play an integral role in delivering clinical pharmacy services across medical wards.
As part of our forward-thinking and supportive pharmacy department, you will work within a multidisciplinary team alongside pharmacists, doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, and other allied health professionals.
Together, you will help promote the safe, effective, and efficient use of medicines, with a strong emphasis on patient education, medicines adherence, and discharge planning.
Please note: Interviews for this position are expected to take place on 22.04.2026 Candidates shortlisted for interview will be notified of the final details closer to the time.
Main duties of the job
- Support the delivery of a high-quality, patient-centred medicines management service across the Trust.
- Ensure services remain responsive to patients’ changing needs.
- Support pharmacists, trainee pharmacists, and trainee pharmacy technicians in delivering ward-based services.
- Contribute to audits and review services against agreed standards.
- Promote the safe reuse of patients’ own medicines to support cost-effective care.
- Ensure the safe and secure storage of medicines in patients’ bedside lockers.
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 (BTEC Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science) /AIMMs /MOP’s accreditation or equivalent (or within 6 months of starting the role, the postholder must be enrolled on and working towards completion of the HEE Medicines Optimisation Programme (or equivalent), and should complete it within 9 months of commencing the programme)
- ACPT or recognised accredited pharmacy technician checking qualification (or to be achieved within 18 months of commencement)
- Mandatory professional CPD as defined by the GPhC
Desirable criteria
- Qualified NVQ assessor/Education Supervisor
- 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 managing change
- Experience of CMM pharmacy system
- Experience of using electronic prescribing systems e.g. Cerner
- Experience of training others
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 work independently and collaboratively within a team
- Able to teach, supervise, and adapt effectively to change
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
- Anna Slosarz
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
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