Lead Pharmacy Technician, Medicines Efficiency
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 25/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an experienced and motivated Specialist Pharmacist/Pharmacy Technician to join the Pharmacy team and lead the Trust's Medicines Efficiency Programme. It involves coordinating initiatives, supporting safe implementation of medicine switches, and managing cost improvement programmes. A key focus will be the Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH) Switch Programme, requiring project management and stakeholder engagement skills. The successful candidate will drive transformational change in medicines optimisation and cost efficiency.
Essential criteria
- BTEC/NVQ3 Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable criteria
- Educational Supervisor / NVQ Level 2 assessor
- Post registration management qualification
- Accredited checking technician
- Financial or procurement qualification
- Skills and Ability
- Ability to organise own workload and that of others.
- Problem solving skills
- -You are able to communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service or support as appropriate to your role
- Be able to analyse complex information relating to medicines efficiency programmes
- Demonstrates initiative
- Knowledge and Experience
- Relevant post registration UK hospital experience
- Knowledge of finance systems and budget control
- Managing a team
- Experience of working with pharmacy systems (e.g., CMM).
- Experience of policy/procedure/SOP writing
- Experience of completing audits and implementing change.
- Appropriate experience at a minimum of band 6, working as a qualified pharmacist in an NHS hospital (Pharmacist)
- Proven track record in implementing medicines efficiency or cost-saving initiatives.
- Pharmacy stock control
- Experience of project management.
- Experience of working with clinical divisions/ directorates
- BTEC/NVQ3 Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent
- Registration with GPhC
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Educational Supervisor / NVQ Level 2 assessor
- Post registration management qualification
- Accredited checking technician
- Financial or procurement qualification
- Skills and Ability
- Ability to organise own workload and that of others.
- Problem solving skills
- -You are able to communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service or support as appropriate to your role
- Be able to analyse complex information relating to medicines efficiency programmes
- Demonstrates initiative
- Knowledge and Experience
- Relevant post registration UK hospital experience
- Knowledge of finance systems and budget control
- Managing a team
- Experience of working with pharmacy systems (e.g., CMM).
- Experience of policy/procedure/SOP writing
- Experience of completing audits and implementing change.
- Appropriate experience at a minimum of band 6, working as a qualified pharmacist in an NHS hospital (Pharmacist)
- Proven track record in implementing medicines efficiency or cost-saving initiatives.
- Pharmacy stock control
- Experience of project management.
- Experience of working with clinical divisions/ directorates
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Lead Pharmacy Technician, Medicines Efficiency
The closing date is 25 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Specialist Pharmacist/ Pharmacy Technician, Medicines Efficiency to join our Pharmacy team and play a pivotal role in delivering the Trust'sMedicines Efficiency Programme.
This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacy technician who wants to develop their leadership, influencing and project management skills while working at the forefront of medicinesoptimisation and cost improvement.
About the Role Working closely with the Principal Pharmacist for Medicines Efficiency, you will lead and coordinate medicines efficiency initiatives across the Trust, supporting the safe implementation of medicines switches, cost improvement programmes and formulary changes.A key focus of the role will be contributing to the Trust's flagship Low Molecular Weight Heparin (LMWH) Switch Programme - a highly visible and strategically important Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) with significant organisational impact. This programme offers an exceptionalopportunity for the successful candidate to demonstrate and further develop projectmanagement skills, stakeholder engagement and change leadership across clinical, operationaland corporate teams.
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