Lead Pharmacy Technician - Specialist Services
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and organised Lead Pharmacy Technician to join a professional team within Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. The position involves leading support for specialist services workstreams, including medicines safety and governance, expenditure monitoring, and supporting services with medicines supply. The successful candidate will contribute to improving community-based care and aligning services with the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery.
Essential criteria
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy Technician
- Accredited qualification in Medicines Management or historical equivalent (Regionally Accredited Consultation Skills plus Medicines Management Skills) or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Practice supervisor qualification or equivalent qualification.
- An educational supervisor qualification would be an advantage
- Post qualification medicines optimisation experience in a hospital or clinical setting
- Experience of undertaking audit and responding to outcomes
- Experience in Primary/Community and secondary care pharmacy services
- Knowledge and Skills
- A full, valid UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) and the ability to travel independently are essential for this role.
- Able to prioritise service delivery in a professional manner, taking into account Trust policies and procedures.
- Sound communication skills in order to understand and communicate both verbally and in writing.
- Able to work effectively with a variety of people at all organisational levels across different sectors
- Able to use IT systems and databases.
- Knowledge of the theories of good leadership.
- Able to advise, instruct, train, assess and appraise others
- Having an awareness of developments within the NHS would be an advantage as well as an understanding of Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and NICE guidance.
- Able to manage time effectively, be able to prioritise appropriately and work under pressure to meet deadlines
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy Technician
- Accredited qualification in Medicines Management or historical equivalent (Regionally Accredited Consultation Skills plus Medicines Management Skills) or equivalent
- Practice supervisor qualification or equivalent qualification.
- An educational supervisor qualification would be an advantage
- Post qualification medicines optimisation experience in a hospital or clinical setting
- Experience of undertaking audit and responding to outcomes
- Experience in Primary/Community and secondary care pharmacy services
- Knowledge and Skills
- A full, valid UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) and the ability to travel independently are essential for this role.
- Able to prioritise service delivery in a professional manner, taking into account Trust policies and procedures.
- Sound communication skills in order to understand and communicate both verbally and in writing.
- Able to work effectively with a variety of people at all organisational levels across different sectors
- Able to use IT systems and databases.
- Knowledge of the theories of good leadership.
- Able to advise, instruct, train, assess and appraise others
- Having an awareness of developments within the NHS would be an advantage as well as an understanding of Integrated Neighbourhood Teams and NICE guidance.
- Able to manage time effectively, be able to prioritise appropriately and work under pressure to meet deadlines
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Pharmacy Technician - Specialist Services
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare or working on the Staff Bank within these organisations. Nursing and AHP vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses/AHPs.
The NHS is changing. More emphasis on community-based care means there's never been a better time to join us.
We are looking for anenthusiastic and organised Lead Pharmacy Technician - Specialist Servicesto join ourprofessional team.
We're a close team but we're never exclusive, if you can bring a professional approach and fresh ideas we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Your daily activities will be varied to include leading the support for elements of the following Specialist Services workstreams:
- Medicines safety and governance - Incident Reports (DATIX), Medicines Management Audit, Controlled Drugs
- Medicines expenditure monitoring and analysis
- Supporting services with medicines supply, adherence to formularies and identifying efficiencies
- Patient Group Directions, Protocols, Policies and SOPs.
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