Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: 37.5 Hours per week
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 354-CO-21755
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Department of Psychiatry
- Town
- Eastbourne East Sussex
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pa / pro rata for part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 06/11/2026
Employer heading
Pharmacy Technician
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Join an Award-Winning Team
Are you a registered pharmacy technician ready to specialise in mental health pharmacy?
Our pharmacy service was named APTUK Pharmacy Technician Team of the Year 2025, recognised nationally for innovation, collaboration, and advancing pharmacy technician practice in mental health.
We are recruiting a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our East Sussex team, primarily based at the Department of Psychiatry, with responsibilities extending to inpatient wards, Havens, and some community services across East Sussex.
Your focus will be on delivering a safe and effective medicines optimisation service, helping patients get the best outcomes from their medicines. You’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring healthcare staff are confident and supported in safe, effective, and cost-conscious medicines use.
There are no weekend or dispensary duties.
Main duties of the job
Please see the Job description for more details.
- Provide clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services across inpatient wards, Havens, and community settings in East Sussex.
- Advise clinicians, nursing staff, and patients on safe, effective, and cost-conscious medicines use.
- Support clozapine clinics, including point-of-care testing and overdue bloods monitoring.
- Take part in discharge planning, ensuring safe transition of care into the community.
- Lead and contribute to audits, medicines safety initiatives, and service development projects.
- Work closely with pharmacy colleagues across East Sussex and the wider Trust to deliver high-quality, patient-centred services.
Working for our organisation
Join an Award-Winning Team
Our pharmacy service was named APTUK Pharmacy Technician Team of the Year 2025, recognised nationally for innovation, collaboration, and advancing pharmacy technician practice in mental health.
· No dispensary or weekend commitments.
· Fully funded training opportunities (e.g. Psych 1 & 2).
· Opportunities to shape medicines safety initiatives and service development.
Why Join Sussex Partnership?
· Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
· Competitive NHS benefits package (27 days’ annual leave + bank holidays, NHS pension).
· Access to wellbeing support including counselling, mindfulness, and staff networks.
· Work in a Trust that values innovation, diversity, and inclusivity.
East Sussex offers:
- Stunning countryside (South Downs National Park) and beautiful coastline.
- Easy links to London (just over an hour by train).
- Excellent schools and welcoming communities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We’re looking for a motivated and patient-focused GPhC-registered pharmacy technician who is enthusiastic about mental health pharmacy.
You should be able to demonstrate:
- Experience in hospital or mental health pharmacy (desirable but not essential - training will be provided).
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
- A flexible approach and willingness to travel across East Sussex.
- Commitment to medicines optimisation and improving patient care.
We welcome applications from newly qualified pharmacy technicians as well as those currently working in primary care who are seeking a new challenge in mental health pharmacy.
Experience in mental health pharmacy is desirable but not essential, as full training and support will be provided.
Please note only GPhC registered Pharmacy Technicians will be considered.
Person specification
Registration
Essential criteria
- Registered as Pharmacy Technician with GpHC
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVq Level 3 or BTEC
- Medicines Management accreditation
- ACPT
Non-clinical knowledge / exper
Essential criteria
- Experience supervising or managing other staff
Desirable criteria
- Previous management experience
Clinical knowledge and exper
Essential criteria
- Hospital Pharmacy experience
- Experience of delivering medicines management schemes
Desirable criteria
- Experience working in mental health setting
- Experience using clozapine monitoring system
HR
Essential criteria
- Experience in training staff
IT
Essential criteria
- Evidence of IT skills (including pharmacy systems)
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel across the locality
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Becky Jarvis
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07471 031 572
- Additional information
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