Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 423-7803281
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton, Keighley
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Rotational Pharmacy Technician (Band 4)
Band 4
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
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Job overview
We have an exciting and unique opportunity for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, hard working and adaptable Pharmacy Technician to work at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. This is a rotational role, and the successful applicant will have the opportunity to work across the full range of pharmacy departments, including the dispensary, inpatient wards, aseptics, medicines information and others.
The successful candidate will need to be registered with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician, and will have excellent interpersonal skills, be good at managing their time, be flexible in their approach to work and be an excellent team player.
Applicants will need to have excellent dispensing and communication skills to join our friendly, supportive and welcoming pharmacy team. The post holder will also be expected to take part in the weekend and bank holiday rotas to ensure an effective service provision.
We will support the successful candidate with their introduction into this role, and with their future professional development.
Main duties of the job
- Full dispensary activities, including dispensing and accuracy checking medicines supply for inpatients, prescriptions for outpatients and medicines on discharge.
- Ward medicines management activities including assessment of patients own drugs, completion of drug history and medicines reconciliation activities, ensuring full supply of medicines for an inpatient stay and on discharge,.
-
Aseptic preparation of a wide range of products following validated standard operating procedures.
- Rotation through pharmacy procurement, homecare, medicines information as required
- Supervision and training of a range of junior staff including students, senior assistant technical officers and assistant technical officers.
Working for our organisation
We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.
We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached the full job description and person specification for further details relating to this vacancy.
This position is not currently eligible for a certificate of sponsorship in line with Home Office guidance as it does not appear on the skilled worker visa occupation list.
If you currently hold a different type of visa allowing you to work in the UK we would welcome an application from you. If your visa expires or there is a change in status during your employment, the Trust will be required to review your employment This
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC in pharmaceutical science, NVQ level 3 or equivalent
- Registered with GPHC
Desirable criteria
- Hold an accredited checking qualification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current NHS guidance/initiatives affecting hospital pharmacy.
- Understands Health & Safety in the workplace
Desirable criteria
- Good manufacturing practice knowledge
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good interpersonal and communication skills( both written and verbal)
- Computer literate and experience of using Pharmacy systems
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous dispensing experience
Desirable criteria
- Aseptic manipulations and Good manufacturing practice experience
- Handling difficult customers
- Hospital Pharmacy experience
- Ward Based Pharmacy experience
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to contribute to seven day working agenda
Desirable criteria
- Portfolio of CPD
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Wicks
- Job title
- Pharmacy Operations Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 293502
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