Clinical Pharmacy Technician
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join a community-facing pharmacy team within mental health services in Devon. The role involves supporting pharmacists, multidisciplinary teams, and patients with their medicines to ensure better outcomes and reduce harm. The postholder will work independently and collaboratively on safe prescribing, monitoring, and patient-facing clinical work. This includes reviewing prescriptions, managing queries, and providing training where needed. Individuals without the PWDS Enhanced Clinical Practice qualification will be employed as band 5 technicians until completion.
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 and BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent
- Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Accredited Medicine Optimisation Technician levels: Foundation / Intermediate / Advanced (Clinical Prioritisation or Enhanced Clinical Practice)
- Evidence of post-qualification experience of medicine optimisation duties.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within mental health or with individuals with mental illness
- NVQ level 3 and BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent
- Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Accredited Medicine Optimisation Technician levels: Foundation / Intermediate / Advanced (Clinical Prioritisation or Enhanced Clinical Practice)
- Evidence of post-qualification experience of medicine optimisation duties.
- Experience of working within mental health or with individuals with mental illness
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Clinical Pharmacy Technician
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
The is an exciting opportunity to join our community-facing pharmacy team working in mental health services in Devon. As medicines provision in mental health evolves we are building capacity to support increased prescribing within community mental health teams. The postholder will work across core mental health services in North Devon, supporting the pharmacists, the wider multidisciplinary teams and the patients with their medicines, ensuring better outcomes and reducing the risk of harm.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to work both independently and in collaboration with the multidisciplinary teams to ensure the safe prescribing and monitoring of medicines. This will include patient-facing clinical work, reviewing prescriptions, supporting repeat prescribing and managing day to day clinical queries and challenges as well as providing input to training where required.
Individuals without the PWDS Enhanced Clinical Practice qualification will be employed as band 5 technicians pending completion of this course.
https://pwds.nhs.uk/programme/enhanced-clinical-practice-for-pharmacy-technicians/
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About Devon Partnership Trust
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