Band 4 Pharmacy Technician – Patient Services
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a motivated, patient-focused Pharmacy Technician to join the Patient Services team at Queen's Hospital. You will provide ward-based and dispensary services, ensuring patients receive safe and effective medicines. Key duties include medicines reconciliation, drug history taking, dispensing, patient counselling, and final accuracy checking. The position offers experience across various specialties and opportunities for professional development within a progressive pharmacy team.
Essential criteria
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a UK Pharmacy Technician
- Accredited checking pharmacy technician qualification (regional or as part of the pre-registration course)
- Experience/ Knowledge
- Experience of dealing with patients and the public
Desirable criteria
- Experience of being in a Medicines Management role e.g. Assessment of Patients own medicines, drug history taking, medicines reconciliation.
- Experience of using Cerner Millenium EPR/EPMA
- Experience of working in a ward environment
- Skills/ Abilities
- Demonstrates attention to detail and accuracy
- Education/ Qualifications
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a UK Pharmacy Technician
- Accredited checking pharmacy technician qualification (regional or as part of the pre-registration course)
- Experience/ Knowledge
- Experience of dealing with patients and the public
- Experience of being in a Medicines Management role e.g. Assessment of Patients own medicines, drug history taking, medicines reconciliation.
- Experience of using Cerner Millenium EPR/EPMA
- Experience of working in a ward environment
- Skills/ Abilities
- Demonstrates attention to detail and accuracy
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £33,262 – £36,027 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Band 4 Pharmacy Technician – Patient Services
The closing date is 17 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a motivated, patient-focused Pharmacy Technician looking to develop your career in a busy acute NHS hospital?
We have an exciting opportunity for a GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technician to join our Patient Services team at Queen's Hospital. Working within a friendly and supportive pharmacy department, you will provide ward-based and dispensary services, helping to ensure patients receive safe and effective medicines throughout their hospital stay.
The role includes medicines reconciliation, drug history taking, assessment of patients' own medicines, dispensing for inpatients, outpatients and discharge patients, patient counselling, and final accuracy checking as an Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT).
As part of one of London's busiest acute trusts, you will gain experience across a wide range of specialties, including acute medicine, stroke, neurology, oncology, respiratory medicine, endocrinology and frailty services. This is an excellent opportunity to broaden your clinical knowledge and develop your skills within a progressive pharmacy team.
We offer a comprehensive training programme, ongoing professional development and excellent opportunities for career progression.
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