Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2465
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £33,094 - £36,195 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Rotational Pharmacy Technician
Band 4
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 Pharmacy Technician looking to broaden your experience across a variety of clinical and operational settings?
We’re looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, patient orientated pharmacy technician dedicated to teamwork and personal development to join our Rotational Pharmacy Technician programme.
This is an exciting opportunity for a registered pharmacy technician to join the dynamic, innovative, supportive and friendly pharmacy team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest acute trusts in the country and in partnership with Imperial College London is one of the UK's first academic health science centres (AHSCs). The creation of the AHSC is a major advance for patient care, clinical teaching and scientific invention and innovation
Pharmacy technician applicants must be registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC.
This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills, work alongside a multidisciplinary team, and contribute to high-quality patient care.
Main duties of the job
The aim of the Rotational Pharmacy Technician training programme is to:
- Develop pharmacy technicians' knowledge and skills to have a patient centered approach in all the key roles in the pharmacy specialist areas e.g. dispensary and on the wards across sites.
- Deliver high standards of hospital pharmacy services to patients and end users.
- Ensure that service provision is flexible and responsive to patient and users’ needs from dispensary (all sites) and on the wards.
- Have a good understanding of the roles of multi-disciplinary team members.
- Pharmacy services are highly regarded by both patients and Trust staff and the high profile of our service and the positive feedback we receive make it a stimulating and rewarding place to work.
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. Please talk to us at interview.
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
Essential criteria
- BTEC Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent
- Mandatory professional CPD as defined by the GPhC
Desirable criteria
- Professional Pharmacy Technician registration with the GPhC – Essential eligibility to enter the GPhC register within 3 months.
- ACPT or recognised accredited pharmacy technician checking qualification (or to be achieved within 12 months of commencement)
- HEE (Health Education England) Medicines Optimisation Programme (MOP) POD Transcribing for Supply and Medicines Reconciliations modules or equivalent (Patient's Own Drugs) Checking
- Practice Supervisor (P.S)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a UK pharmacy, this must include experience of dispensing prescriptions
- Experience of pharmacy computer systems
- Experience in delivering high quality customer care
Desirable criteria
- A solid grounding in all aspects of UK hospital practice (aseptic and dispensing services)
- Experience of working in an in-patient hospital dispensary within the last year
- Experience of working as a ward-based pharmacy technician.
Skills
Essential criteria
- The ability to communicate empathetically towards patients
- Literate in the use of information technology
- Good knowledge of main roles and practise of pharmacy staff
- Able to interpret and dispense prescriptions accurately, competently provide basic patient counselling
Desirable criteria
- ECDL - foundation
- Previous supervisory experience
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
- Radhika Poonwasi
- Job title
- Chief E&T Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 331 25299
- Additional information
If you would like more information, or for an informal visit, please contact -
Radhika Poonwasi on 0203 312 5299, alternatively via email: [email protected]
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