Senior Pharmacy Technician
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 05/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join a mental health team at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves providing a comprehensive clinical service across the trust, contributing to the core pharmacy service, and performing departmental and clinical duties. The successful candidate will support clozapine teams, undertake community team projects, and provide medicines optimisation services to wards.
Key responsibilities
- Provide a concise and clear clinical and operational service.
- Ensure a high standard of medicines optimisation and advice to professionals and service users.
- Support clozapine teams.
- Undertake designated work projects in community teams.
- Support a medicines optimisation service to wards.
- Perform medicines reconciliation, patient counselling, and supply functions.
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 plus accredited underpinning knowledge in Pharmacy Services or equivalent BTEC or BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent pharmacy based qualification e.g. City & Guilds; Apothacary Hall and relevant experience to degree level
- Registered as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant further educational qualifications e.g. in IT, project management
- Good Clinical Practice Certificate
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, in a hospital or community pharmacy
- Experience in primary or secondary care environment with awareness of specialist client group needs
- Experience working as a pharmacy technician providing tactful and persuasive patient focused care
- Experience of carrying out or leading on clinical audits
- Knowledge of the principles of medicines optimisation
- Evidence of training, teaching or supervising other clinical staff
- Experience of working in NHS and a mental health setting
- Ability to communicate effectively with individuals from all agencies and at all levels including service users, carers and professionals using a variety of techniques
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Good IT literacy and skills
- Ability to work accurately, methodically with long periods of concentration
- Self-motivation and able to engage and motivate others around them
- Able to work with limited direction, independently and work well as a team player
- Ability to recognise when to seek appropriate assistance from colleagues
- Ability to receive, understand and convey technical information clearly
- Empathetic to both colleagues and patients needs
- Ability to work and cope under pressure and manage reasonable levels of stress
- Very good interpersonal skills that are conducive to harmonious team working, within pharmacy and other teams
- Knowledge of financial databases
- Experience of spreadsheets
- Ability to present information in either written or visual forms
- Experience of working with a diverse range of people with differing needs
- Special requirements
- Must have the ability to travel independently across sites without the use of public transport
- Willingness to work across all Trust & PCN sites
- Flexible approach to work and punctual
- Has attention to detail, analysing and interpreting data accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily
- Able to effectively manage allocated resources
- An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues
- Understand the aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this for Clinical Pharmacy across the primary care networks and community mental health teams
- Knowledge and ability to use GP clinical systems
- NVQ Level 3 plus accredited underpinning knowledge in Pharmacy Services or equivalent BTEC or BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent pharmacy based qualification e.g. City & Guilds; Apothacary Hall and relevant experience to degree level
- Registered as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence of relevant further educational qualifications e.g. in IT, project management
- Good Clinical Practice Certificate
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, in a hospital or community pharmacy
- Experience in primary or secondary care environment with awareness of specialist client group needs
- Experience working as a pharmacy technician providing tactful and persuasive patient focused care
- Experience of carrying out or leading on clinical audits
- Knowledge of the principles of medicines optimisation
- Evidence of training, teaching or supervising other clinical staff
- Experience of working in NHS and a mental health setting
- Ability to communicate effectively with individuals from all agencies and at all levels including service users, carers and professionals using a variety of techniques
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Good IT literacy and skills
- Ability to work accurately, methodically with long periods of concentration
- Self-motivation and able to engage and motivate others around them
- Able to work with limited direction, independently and work well as a team player
- Ability to recognise when to seek appropriate as
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Pharmacy Technician
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our successful mental health team at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, working across Lincolnshire.
You will join a team of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy support workers, and trainee staff members who provide a comprehensive clinical service across the trust, and you will use your experience, skills, and initiative to develop, coordinate and provide a high-quality clinical and operational pharmacy service. You will contribute to the pharmacy core service, performing departmental and clinical duties that will impact inpatient sites, clozapine clinics, community teams, as well as the third-party sector, primary and secondary care.
To apply, you must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Main duties of the job
You will work across many aspects of the service providing a concise and clear clinical and operational service ensuring a high standard of medicines optimisation and advice to both other professionals and service users.
You will support clozapine teams, undertake designated work projects in the community teams and support a medicines optimisation service to wards including medicines reconciliation, patient counselling and supp
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