Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 203-SS1197
- Employer
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Warwick Hospital
- Town
- Warwick
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Pharmacy Technician - Oncology
Band 6
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 6000 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Checks
Many of the roles we advertise have a requirement for a DBS check to be carried out. If you are successful for a role and it requires a DBS check the Trust will carry out the initial check and subscription to the DBS Update Service, however successful candidates will be expected to cover the associated costs . Details of this will be sent to successful candidates in their offer letter.
Probationary Period
All new staff to the Trust will be subject to a standard 6 month probationary period, the details of which will duly follow in your contract of employment.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued and respected and that our organisation is representative of all members of society. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value our employees, job applicants, students, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our values of being Inclusive, Safe, Effective, Compassionate and Trusted.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.
Agile and Flexible Working
All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.
The Trust also welcome staff to work flexibly and we would welcome the conversation at interview regarding flexible working.
Staff Benefits
The Trust offer a wide range of additional benefits to staff. Anyone who joins us on a substantive basis can assess things such as the Lease Car Scheme, Electronics Scheme, Discounted Leisure and Travel, Cycle to work scheme amongst many others available.
Car Parking
The Trust currently have limited availability of car parking spaces, as such are operating a waiting list for new starters joining the organisation.
To keep up to date on our latest recruitment activity follow us on twitter @swftrecruit or look us up on Facebook (Recruitment - South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust).
Visa Sponsorship
The Trust will only consider sponsoring staff for certain roles, however this will be considered on a case by case basis in line with current legislation. As an employer we are unable to offer sponsorship to all roles in particular we cannot offer sponsorship for roles below Band 5.
Job overview
We are delighted to present a great opportunity for an experienced Pharmacy Technician with an interest in Clinical Oncology to join us in this innovative role.
The friendly & supportive team at South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust are looking for a Clinical Pharmacy Technician to support our clinical oncology team in the delivery of excellent SACT services.
The successful candidate must hold GPhC registration as a Pharmacy Technician in the UK and have significant post-registration experience. The Level 4 Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Services and Therapeutics (or equivalent) is required for this post, however exceptional registered Pharmacy Technicians may be supported to attain this through out STEP programme.
You will be an excellent communicator with well-developed clinical and problem-solving skills, and demonstrate a commitment to CPD.
Main duties of the job
To facilitate the implementation, monitoring and reporting for pharmacy and medicines-related activities in the clinical specialty. To assist the Lead Pharmacist to develop, lead and deliver technical and clinical pharmacy services. To support clinical verification and intervention, working with practice and escalation frameworks and under the supervision of the Lead Pharmacist.
Working for our organisation
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To contribute to the delivery of a proactive and highly visible clinical & technical pharmacy service within the clinical specialty in line with operational requirements and medicines optimisation initiatives.
To work with the Lead Pharmacist to successfully deliver on clinical and medicines optimisation outcomes in the specialist area.
To prepare and present progress reports and audits to agreed timescale.
To be responsible for the cascading of relevant information / communications.
To support the Lead Pharmacist to collate the information needed to demonstrate progress with National and Local CQUINs, Key Performance Indicators and National Standards in the specialty.
To monitor achievements against the above indicators and identify failures to meet targets.
To proactively engage Clinicians with the Lead Pharmacist in developing measures to achieve clinical and medicines optimisation outcomes.
To assist the Lead Pharmacist in the development, communication and implementation of clinical guidelines.
To assist in the monitoring of drug expenditure, supporting formulary compliance in all aspects of clinical activity.
To develop, support and/or facilitate the dissemination of the findings from audits to divisions and directorates.
To assist the Lead Pharmacist to ensure that all medication safety and clinical governance issues are actioned and implemented in a timely manner.
Responsible for the line management of allocated Pharmacy Technicians & Pharmacy Assistants, and delivery of training in the speciality area.
To undertake a pre-dispensing check & dispensing authorisation of discharge prescribing, identifying therapeutic duplication, omission or contra-indicated medication, referring to the Pharmacist as appropriate.
As part of role may be required to prepare medicines from raw materials such as aseptics requiring fine motor skills including manipulation of fine tools for pharmaceutical preparations.
To identify polypharmacy in inpatient & discharge prescribing, referring to the Pharmacist as appropriate.
To assess inpatient prescribing against clearly pre-defined regimens, referring to the Pharmacist in line with a pre-defined clinical escalation framework and professional judgement.
To carry out a pre-dispensing check and dispensing authorisation on clinic repeat-dispensing requests from dose 2 onwards, referring to the Pharmacist in line with a pre-defined clinical escalation framework and professional judgement.
To carry out all routine pharmacy operational activities including, but not limited to, dispensing, final accuracy checking, medicines reconciliation, ordering and counselling.
To line manage pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants as appropriate, in line with the relevant Trust HR policies and guidance.
To manage staff recruitment and selection (including chairing of interview panels), grievance and disciplinary procedures, and appraisal processes for relevant staff.
To provide expert advice in the use of medicines, referring to relevant reference sources and escalating to the Pharmacist when appropriate.
To support the ward-based medicines management team in promoting adherence to all national, regional and local standards in medicines management practice.
To promote adherence to the Trust formulary, respectfully challenging prescribing within the scope of own professional knowledge/practice and escalating to the Pharmacist as appropriate.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Critical and analytical skills for assessing data and reports. Where problems arise, they may be complex and involve the consideration of a range of options in order to come to a solution.
Good interpersonal and communication skills for effective provision of information, to pharmacy colleagues, prescribers, nurses and other HealthCare Professionals
Frequent concentration required when writing reports and analysing error reports
Ability to prioritise and manage workload to meet deadlines
Ability to work with a high degree of accuracy
Ability to work alone and in a team
Ability to act autonomously and responsibly within own sphere of knowledge, recognising and working within own competence.
Maintain confidentiality and security of patient and staff information.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC/NVQ3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Level 4 Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Services and Therapeutics (or equivalent)
- Accredited Checking Technician
- Short courses in management training
- Evidence of CPD
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of day to day management of technical operations in a section of a hospital pharmacy.
- A minimum of 2 years working in a patient-facing technician role within a clinical pharmacy service.
- Significant experience of the specialist service area of the post
- Supervision of a team of technicians/ assistants
- Planning and implementing improvements in pharmacy service
- Writing and presenting reports
- Multidisciplinary working
- Problem solving involving most grades of hospital staff
- Involved in service development action plans
- Broad experience in communication with staff patients, relatives and other healthcare professionals
- Experience in pharmacy/ medicines legislation
- Experience in risk management and the investigation of incidents, errors and complaints
Desirable criteria
- Disciplinary process
- Recruitment process.
- Equal opportunities
- Performance management, appraisals, objective setting
Skills/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of hospital pharmacy developments.
- Extensive knowledge around the specialist service area of the post
- Competent in the skills required in the specialist service area of the post.
- Accurate dispensing and checking skills.
- Excellent numerical calculation skills
- Able to record and keep accurate records
- Competent in writing and implementing SOPs
- Good team leader/ manager skills.
- Strong training skills.
- Generally able to deal with difficult, concerned, angry, disturbed patients, relatives, carers.
- Generally able to deal with healthcare colleagues in emotional and stressful situations
- Must be able to concentrate on the task in hand, yet be able to deal with interruptions
- Able to plan, co-ordinate and balance conflicting priorities.
- Able to demonstrate clear thinking and defend judgements
- Understands Wellsky system
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Team player
- Enthusiastic, self-motivator and able to motivate others.
- Technical credibility with colleagues.
- Confident, but not overconfident.
- Appropriately persistent.
- Patient centred approach.
- Approachable.
- Aware of own limitations.
- Innovative.
- Appreciates feedback
- Ability to create a rapport
Other job requirements
Essential criteria
- Some flexibility in working hours
- Keyboard skills and general IT knowledge Capable in Microsoft Outlook, Word
- Capable in Microsoft Outlook, Word.
- Able to use a VDU
- Occasional moderate lifting
Desirable criteria
- Driver, with use of motorised transport.
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
- Emma Dunn
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
01926 495321
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