Job overview

In this role, you’ll assist Senior Pharmacy Technicians in providing pharmacy specialist services such as inpatient dispensing, discharge dispensing,  accuracy checking, patient counselling, ward stock and individual patient dispensed top-ups. 

You’ll work alongside Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Technicians and Assistant Technical Officers, and effectively communicate with medical and nursing staff to ensure timely availability of medicines. 

Following departmental, Trust and professional standards and protocols, and without direct supervision, you’ll support Senior Pharmacy Technicians if needed, and priorities your own, and junior staff’s, workloads. This will include dispensing a range of prescriptions, inpatient and complex regimens; accuracy checking; patient counselling; data input; and ward-based services such as discharge prescriptions.

This role involves working on weekends, late-nights and Bank Holiday rotas.

This is a progressive role which  begins as a  Band 4 but will progress to progress to Band 5 on completion agreed criteria.

Main duties of the job

You must hold a BTEC and NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent (or be qualifying imminently) and be registered as a pharmacy technician with the GPhC. Ideally, you’ll also have a BTEC Level 4 in Accuracy Checking Dispensed Medicines or equivalent recognised qualification.

You’ll understand and be adept at performing a range of work procedures and practices that require underpinning theoretical knowledge of dispensary processes, controlled drugs legislation, and medicines storage and security.

Confident and accurate in the dispensing process and computer software, you’ll be manually dexterous and able to communicate clearly with everyone from healthcare providers to the general public. You’ll be organising your day and workload, so you’ll need to be able to work independently, too.

If you have a mature attitude, a team player, and committed to professional development in a healthcare setting, this could be your next best career move.

Working for our organisation

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.