Senior Medicine Management Pharmacy Technician - Women's Health

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Senior Medicine Management Pharmacy Technician - Women's Health

Band 5

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

Full time
Part time

37.5 hours per week (Full Time and part time) Job ref 418-DTO0631-KA

Site Luton Town Luton Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 09/10/ :59 Interview date 20/10/2026

Job overview

Are you a registered Pharmacy Technician looking to develop your clinical skills in a rewarding and patient-focused environment? Would you like the opportunity to use your medicines management expertise within Women’s Health and make a real difference to the care of women and their families?

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our Women’s Health Medicines Management team at Luton and Dunstable Hospital.

You will provide a patient-centred medicines management service, working closely with pharmacists, midwives, nurses, doctors and the wider multidisciplinary team. Your role will include undertaking medicines reconciliation, supporting medicines optimisation and providing medicines-related advice to patients and healthcare professionals. You will also play an important role in supporting safe and timely discharge.

This is an excellent opportunity to build specialist experience within Women’s Health while developing your clinical, leadership and service improvement skills. You will be supported by an experienced pharmacy team and have opportunities to contribute to training, audit and the ongoing development of the service.

Main duties of the job

To provide medicines management services to all Women's health wards including compiling accurate medication histories and undertaking medicines reconciliation.
To support pharmacists with medicines optimisation, including initial pharmaceutical assessment of new patients and prioritisation for pharmacist review where required.
To work closely with pharmacists, midwives, nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals to promote the safe and effective use of medicines.
To provide appropriate medicines-related information and advice to patients, carers and healthcare professionals, including patient counselling where required.
To contribute to the pharmacy service including dispensing and issuing prescriptions via the satellite and main dispensary. This will also involve accredited checking of prescriptions.
To support the training and development of junior pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants and other staff, acting as a professional role model and contributing to the ongoing development of the Women’s Health pharmacy service.

Working for our organisation

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Provision of a medicines management service at ward level including responsibilities for the safe storage of medicines and medicine returns.

To obtain patient medication histories, using all available sources, including patient’s own medicines and the Summary Care Record according to departmental processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) whilst obtaining patient consent. This includes a responsibility for entering patient’s admission medicine history onto the electronic prescribing system (ePMA).

To undertake straightforward Level 2 medicines reconciliation in line with appropriate policies and SOPs.

Communication of all medicine related information, both verbal and written, to patients /carers and other healthcare professionals. Includes counselling / demonstration of inhaler and other medical device techniques.

Ensure the efficient transfer of medicines between care settings, to include wards /departments and requesting patients own medicines from home.

To assist the pharmacist in delivering the Keogh standards across medical wards ensuring medicines optimisation for all patients has been undertaken within 24 hours of admission.

To undertake initial pharmaceutical assessment of new patients and prioritisation of patients for pharmacist review, according to protocol.

To support the supervision of a small team of junior pharmacy technicians, senior pharmacy assistants and preregistration staff within the division, organising and directing their work in a fluid manner to ensure an efficient and responsive service to patients and wards.

To deputise for the Lead Medicines Management Technician within the division where appropriate.

Supporting team rotas for technical ward based staff.

Prioritising workload in pharmacy dispensaries.

Organising supplies and discharge medication at ward level, including ‘monitored dose system’ supply if appropriate.

Liaising with relevant pharmacy and other health care staff concerning
pharmaceutical services to the Division

Organising and actively supporting regular audits such as quarterly CD and Safe Storage of Medicines Audits

Ensuring regular stock storage audits are completed.

To help provide ‘hands on’ induction and on-going training of members of the ward based pharmacy team. This will include apprentice assessments at level 2, 3 and 4 & competency assessments for pharmacist pre-registration trainees and acting as a clinical supervisor.

To support the Lead Pharmacist in maintaining continuous improvement and efficiency by managing discrete projects and/or areas of responsibility within the medication supply chain and being responsible for achieving defined outcomes

Participate in the co-ordination of clinical trials supplies for the directorate.

Co-ordinate and monitor safe systems for usage and storage of medicine supplies on the ward – including CD checks, Bedside Medicine Cabinet checks, regular reviews of stock lists and stock level monitoring.

Participate in the Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician rota.

Responsible for creating / updating relevant SOPs.

Please see full Job Description and Person Specification attached. If further information is required, please speak to our contact on the advert.

Person specification

Qualifications

Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills / Level 3 Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent
Registration with the GPhC
Clinical pharmacy qualification or accreditation
Member of APTUK

Experience

Ability to work to SOPs.
Experience of contributing to SOP development
Ward/Clinic based experience
Experience of supervising staff
Experience of training other staff

Skills

Ability to analyse problems and devise workable solutions
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Ability to prioritise workloads
Good interpersonal skills
Ability to support with others learning

Communication

Good verbal and written communication skills
Experience of patient medication counselling
Empathetic communication skills
Able to communicate with a range of people and adapt communication style appropriately

It is an exciting time to join Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Tasnim Rahman Job title Principal Pharmacist - Women and Children Email address Telephone number Additional information To arrange a site visit please contact Tasnim Rahman on