Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 205-7258708
- Employer
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Stoke University Hospital
- Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Pharmacy Technician - Bank
Band 5
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for highly motivated, enthusiastic and dedicated Senior Clinical Pharmacy Technicians to join our clinical pharmacy team on a bank contract.
Main duties of the job
The role involves providing a rotational clinical service to specialist ward areas undertaking activities which will include -
- Identifying patients at a higher clinical risk, ensuring that they are prioritised
- Obtaining drug histories using summary care records and reconciling against the patients prescription chart
- Assessing patients own medicines
- Ordering patients medicines as part of discharge preparation
- Developing a skill set within a variety of specialist areas
You will be a key member of the clinical pharmacy team serving a range of specialities across the hospital site. The role will also include dispensary based duties including dispensing and checking inpatient and discharge prescriptions for patients within agreed turnaround times. The successful candidate will be given the opportunity to develop their clinical knowledge and undertake a nationally recognised medicines management and clinical prioritisation programme.
This post offers the opportunity to gain line management and leadership experience. We offer a professionally rewarding career path with the opportunity for personal development along the way, in addition to the many other benefits you would expect from working in the NHS.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Person specification
Qualifications/Registration
Essential criteria
- BTEC Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent nationally recognised qualification
- Accredited accuracy checker
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
- Medicines optimisation qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant post qualification experience in Pharmacy
- Experience of POD or equivalent schemes
- Experience of the use of hospital IT systems
Desirable criteria
- Experience of undertaking audits
Skills, Ability and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of clinical pharmacy practice and ward based working evidencing their own competence
- Ability to present information concisely and clearly
- Supervisory skills
- Self motivated and ability to work independently
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
- Lorraine Cotterill
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01782 674584
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