Senior Pharmacy Technician - Home Treatment Team
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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 motivated Pharmacy Technician to join Home Treatment Teams, providing specialist medicines management support for people experiencing acute mental health crises in the community. You will work as an embedded member of multidisciplinary teams, focusing on medicines reconciliation, optimisation, adherence support, and physical health monitoring. The position involves ensuring high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care across community mental health services. There are two posts available, with locations discussed at interview.
Essential criteria
- GPhC approved Pharmacy Technician course / recognised qualification
- Registration with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician
- Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) or equivalent
- Pharmacy Medicines Optimisation Training Programme or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Accreditation as an NVQ Assessor / Verifier
- Practice supervisor training or equivalent
- Membership of APTUK
- Membership of CMHP
- Experience working as a registered pharmacy technician in a hospital or clinical setting
- Working as Accredited Checking Technician
- Experience of stock management, medicines storage, and controlled drugs handling
- Experience of completing medicines reconciliation
- Basic IT skills including operating a computer, mouse, printers and being able to work with Microsoft Outlook/ Word/ Powerpoint and other such software
- Experience within mental health services or a community-based clinical team
- Working as an NVQ Assessor / Verifier
- Working as a Practice supervisor
- [contact details removed] hospital pharmacy computer system
- GPhC approved Pharmacy Technician course / recognised qualification
- Registration with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician
- Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) or equivalent
- Pharmacy Medicines Optimisation Training Programme or equivalent
- Accreditation as an NVQ Assessor / Verifier
- Practice supervisor training or equivalent
- Membership of APTUK
- Membership of CMHP
- Experience working as a registered pharmacy technician in a hospital or clinical setting
- Working as Accredited Checking Technician
- Experience of stock management, medicines storage, and controlled drugs handling
- Experience of completing medicines reconciliation
- Basic IT skills including operating a computer, mouse, printers and being able to work with Microsoft Outlook/ Word/ Powerpoint and other such software
- Experience within mental health services or a community-based clinical team
- Working as an NVQ Assessor / Verifier
- Working as a Practice supervisor
- [contact details removed] hospital pharmacy computer system
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £33,677 – £40,996 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Pharmacy Technician - Home Treatment Team
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our innovative Home Treatment Teams (HTTs) . This exciting role provides specialist medicines management support for people experiencing acute mental health crises who are receiving treatment in the community.
Working as an embedded member of multidisciplinary teams across two HTTs, you will play an important role in improving patient outcomes through medicines reconciliation, medicines optimisation, supporting medication adherence, physical health monitoring, and promoting the safe and effective use of medicines. Working closely with pharmacists, prescribers and other healthcare professionals, you will help ensure high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care is delivered across community mental health services.
There are 2 posts to cover our 4 Home Treatment Teams. Locations are outlined in the job description and site preferences can be discussed at interview.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacy Technician supports the HTT Pharmacist and the wider HTT in the day-to-day operational management of medicines, including stock control, safe storage and disposal, and support for medicines reconciliation and training activity. The po
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