Job overview

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides comprehensive acute in-patient mental health, learning disability/autism, and community mental health services to the population of Coventry and Warwickshire.

This post will be based within clinical areas (inpatient and community) serviced by the Trust.

As a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician, you will be part of a clinical team and have an excellent opportunity to play an instrumental role in contributing to the Trust’s progressive medicines optimisation strategy.

This role does not involve any dispensary element as the Trust outsources its dispensing service to an external contractor.

Main duties of the job

You will have a broad, post qualification, technical and pharmaceutical knowledge, with experience relating to the promotion of high quality, effective and safe use of medicines.

This will include traditional supply, medicines management standards, governance, medicines reconciliation, audit and patient/career education.

You will receive professional support from the Medicines Management Team based at Wayside House, Coventry, CV6 6NY.

You must have an independent means of transport to travel around the Trust’s geographic area and to work flexibly to meets the needs of the service.

Working for our organisation

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
•  excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support group

We’re always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.