Pharmacy Technician
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for a Clinical Pharmacy Technician to support a new NHS Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for women in Kent and Medway. It's a 12-month maternity cover post, suitable for pharmacy technicians with mental health and hospital experience, or those with a genuine interest in mental health. The role involves delivering a high-quality, patient-centred medicines management service within the locality. Opportunities for personal growth and development are provided.
Key responsibilities
- Completing medicines reconciliation on admission.
- Supporting safe and timely discharge through effective medicines management.
- Providing patient counselling to ensure understanding and adherence.
- Coordinating the supply of medicines in line with clinical needs.
- Ensuring patients receive evidence-based pharmacological treatment, are involved in shared decision-making, and are regularly monitored for therapeutic response and potential side effects.
- Attending multidisciplinary team meetings and offering expert advice and support on medication-related issues.
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or similar
- Registered with GPhC
- Medications management knowledge including appropriate policies and legislation acquired through formal education and specialist training
- Minimum of 12 months post-qualification experience
- Working within a clinical/ward environment
- Working in various disciplines and across organisational boundaries, linking primary and secondary care
- An interest in mental health
- Advanced IT literacy, especially Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Good understanding of primary care and secondary care
- Able to work as part of a team
- Able to work alone to short deadlines
- Good at practical problem solving
- Excellent communication skills
- Good presentation skills - both written and oral
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise own workload
- Able to co-ordinate around a number of complex activities which may require the adjustment of plans
Desirable criteria
- Accredited Medicine management qualification
- Accredited accuracy checking qualification
- Experience of working on a female psychiatric ward or psychiatric intensive care unit
- Good understanding of the issues affecting mental health prescribing
- Project management skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Pharmacy Technician
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a dedicated, compassionate mental health professional committed to providing great care? Do you want the chance to help shape a new and genuinely innovative service for the women of Kent and Medway?
We're creating Kent and Medway's first, and only, NHS Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for women, and are seeking a talented, qualified Clinical Pharmacy Technician to help us deliver this vital service.
Please note: this is a 12-month maternity cover post.
This role would suit pharmacy technicians with previous mental health and hospital experience who are looking to consolidate their skills, as well as those with genuine interest in mental health from another sector. You will also have the opportunity to work across all the bedded wards in the Dartford locality.
Our Pharmacy Technicians are provided with opportunities for personal growth and development, including support to do accredited medicine management qualification and NHS leadership courses.
If this sounds like the opportunity you have been waiting for, come and join our diverse and compassionate team committed to delivering excellent care and support for service users and their loved ones.
All positions also benefit from a High Cost Area allowance.
**Previous applicants need not appl
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