Senior Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Safety
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 04/09/2026
- Closes
- 18/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and organised Senior Pharmacy Technician to join the Pharmacy Medicines Safety, Optimisation and Governance Team. The postholder will lead on improving compliance with controlled drug and medicines storage standards, providing specialist advice and guidance across the Trust. The role involves developing and implementing systems to evaluate and improve practice, utilising quality improvement techniques. Extensive experience as a registered pharmacy technician in a hospital setting is essential to ensure safe patient care.
Key responsibilities
- Lead action to improve compliance with controlled drug and medicines storage standards.
- Pro-actively identify, resolve, and escalate clinical governance/risk management issues relating to medicines management.
- Design, undertake, and support delivery of required outcomes from audit, improvement, and research projects.
- Develop standardized medicines incident reporting, including analysis and co-ordinating appropriate narrative for Trust reports.
- Through education, training and communication raise awareness and upskill staff to ensure best practice in all aspects of pharmacy and medicines management.
- Undertake medicines safety incident investigations within pharmacy, developing appropriate preventative actions and lessons learned.
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences (or equivalent)
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Accredited accuracy checker
- Extensive experience working as a qualified Pharmacy Technician, including in a leadership role.
- Significant previous experience and knowledge of working in a hospital pharmacy
- Experience with designing and delivering training for different staff groups
- Experience in writing and reviewing policies, procedures and guidance by interpreting national legislation, policy and guidance
- Experience with medicines safety/clinical governance work
- Excellent written skills
- Accurate and methodical with good attention to detail
Desirable criteria
- Leadership/management qualification
- Quality improvement qualification or demonstrable training
- Experience of designing, undertaking and supervising audits and service evaluation projects, including developing improvement plans
- Experience of writing business cases and options appraisals
- Advanced skills in presenting information utilising a range of applications
- Comprehensive understanding of Microsoft packages, including as minimum Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
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We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and organised PharmacyTechnician to join our Pharmacy Medicines Safety, Optimisation and Governance Team at LUHFT.This postholder will work within the pharmacy medicines safety team, taking lead responsibility for key aspects of the work programme to improve compliance with CD and medicines storage standards. Medicines safety and improvement is our priority. We are looking for a committed technician with excellent communication skills to work within multidisciplinary teams, providing specialist advice and guidance to improve the management of medicines in pharmacy and across the Trust.
The growing Pharmacy Medicines Safety team is friendly, supportive, and patient safety is at the heart of everything we do. The Pharmacy Department is large, innovative, and ever developing with lots of opportunities to progress.
As the successful candidate you would be responsible for supporting the Pharmacy Medicines Safety Team with the development and implementation appropriate systems and processes to evaluate and improve practice, utilising a range of quality improvement techniques.
Extensive experience and knowledge working as a registered pharmacy technician in a hospital pharmacy are key for this post to support delivery of the best quality and safest care to patients.
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