Medicines Management Technician
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role is for a motivated Pharmacy Technician to join the Pharmacy department, primarily working on wards. You will actively participate in the multi-disciplinary team, making pharmaceutical interventions, resolving medicines reconciliation queries, and ensuring appropriate medicines are used. The position involves supporting medicines optimisation, effective discharge planning, and patient counselling and education. You will help shape services and standards, driving improvements in medicines optimisation.
Essential criteria
- May be required to lift heavy objects from time to time
- Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary and without hesitation
- Basic computer skills
- Accurate
- Methodical
- Diplomatic
- Ability to work in team or on own
- Ability to delegate tasks
- Previous work experience in a pharmacy or similar healthcare setting
- BTEC / NVQ level 3 pharmacy services or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC as pharmacy Technician
- BTEC / In-house Accuracy Checking
- Additional
- May be required to lift heavy objects from time to time
- Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary and without hesitation
- Basic computer skills
- Accurate
- Methodical
- Diplomatic
- Ability to work in team or on own
- Ability to delegate tasks
- Previous work experience in a pharmacy or similar healthcare setting
- BTEC / NVQ level 3 pharmacy services or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC as pharmacy Technician
- BTEC / In-house Accuracy Checking
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.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 13d
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Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Medicines Management Technician
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
The Pharmacy department are seeking to appoint a motivated and dynamic Pharmacy Technician.
You will need to be inspirational and determined in your approach and be able to influence healthcare professionals outside of traditional pharmacy boundaries. We can offer you the opportunity to succeed in providing the highest standards of care for patients, developing your own professional career.
You will spend most of your working week on your ward. You will actively participate in the multi-disciplinary team making pharmaceutical interventions, ensuring medicines reconciliation queries are resolved at the first opportunity, ensuring the most appropriate medicines are started in line with Trust formulary, ensuring effective antimicrobial stewardship, ensuring effective medicines safety (e.g. where appropriate, that VTE prophylaxis is in place, that therapeutic drug monitoring is occurring), ensuring transfer of care information is captured when medicines are started, stopped and changed, ordering new medicines when necessary and ensuring effective discharge planning takes place.
Candidates are required to present original certificates for qualifications at interview stage.
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