An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and dedicated Pharmacy Technician to join our Medicines Optimisation team, working on the In-Patient units at both St Martins Hospital, Bath and Paulton Hospital.
This role supports the delivery of an efficient and high-quality ward-based pharmaceutical service, contributing to the implementation of local and national policies to optimise patient outcomes.
As a Pharmacy Technician, you will play a key role in ensuring cost-effective prescribing, managing medication budgets, and reducing medicines wastage. You will provide professional advice and support to clinicians, nurses, and patients as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Within this role there is also an opportunity to expand the technician role to other service units within the organisation, allowing you to further develop your skills and experience in a broader range of settings.
This is a part-time position, working 22.5 hours across the week Monday to Friday, with no weekend, late duties, or Bank Holiday cover required.
We welcome applications from pharmacy technicians working in hospital, community, and primary care settings, including community pharmacy!
Package DescriptionAs a Pharmacy Technician, you’ll be part of our valued team in BaNES.
You will feel valued as a Pharmacy Technician within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
Salary of £28,407 - £34,581 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
Free tea and coffee at your base location
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Main Responsibilities
Pharmaceutical Services: Ensure safe and efficient pharmacy services in line with policy and legislation.
Medicines Management: Support ward-based medicines management, including medication reviews and prescription chart monitoring.
Medication Supply: Maintain accurate stock levels, process patient-dispensed items, and manage safe disposal of returned medicines.
Patient Support: Advise patients on safe medicine use and support with self-administration of medicines ready for discharge.
Controlled Drugs: Perform stock checks, audits, and ensure compliance with Controlled Drug regulations.
Specialist Advice: Provide technical advice on medicines care plans and work to reduce waste.
For a full list of job responsibilities please see the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
Registered Qualified Pharmacy Technician holding an NVQ Level 3 or other relevant qualification.
Medicines Management checking qualification highly desirable
Experience in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation
Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for daily use
To learn more about this role please reach out to our Lead Pharmacist Alison Dorey on 07974 104304 or Alison.Dorey@hcrgcaregroup.com
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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