Main area Senior Pharmacy Technician Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent: part time Hours Part time - 15 hours per week (working pattern may be negotiable) Job ref 331-8020350-UHMB
Employer University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Lancaster Infirmary Town Lancaster Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 17/06/2026 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
''Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work''
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.
Job overview
* Registered Pharmacy Technician (GPhC registered)
* Experienced in hospital pharmacy or medicines management (homecare experience desirable)
* Knowledgeable in medicines legislation, governance, and standards
* Detail-oriented with strong technical validation and problem-solving skills
* Confident working across teams and building effective professional relationships
* Passionate about patient safety, service improvement, and innovation
* Lead technical validation, governance, and optimisation of Homecare prescriptions ensuring compliance with RPS Homecare Standards, NHS Homecare Medicines Services Standards, and relevant medicines legislation and professional requirements.
* Work collaboratively across pharmacy, clinical teams, and homecare providers to ensure safe, timely, and cost‑effective patient care, while supporting digital improvements and service growth.
Main duties of the job
* Provide technical validation of homecare prescriptions ensuring accuracy, legality, and clinical appropriateness within scope.
* Support safe and efficient homecare medicine supply, including investigation and resolution of delivery issues.
* Ensure compliance with medicines legislation, including controlled drugs governance and audit requirements.
* Maintain oversight of patient consent, documentation, and chain of custody processes.
* Contribute to audit, service monitoring, and regulatory inspections (NHSE/CQC); support medicines optimisation initiatives, including biosimilar switching and cost improvement programmes.
* Drive digital and technical improvements to validation processes and reporting systems.
* Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and external providers to ensure seamless patient pathways.
Working for our organisation
We operate from three main hospitals – Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal – as well as a number of community health care premises across Morecambe Bay.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
* Recognised Pharmacy technician qualification: BTEC Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Services (or equivalent) and/or NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Service skills or equivalent
* Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* Accredited checking qualification and registration with North West framework (equivalent to NVQ Level 4)
* GCP accreditation
* Assessors Award
* CIPS qualification in procurement and supply or equivalent
Experience
* Experience in day‑to‑day management of a pharmacy service
* Experience in staff management
* Relevant experience of a hospital pharmacy including specialist settings such as Clinical trials, Oncology, Aseptics, Purchasing and contract management
* Experience with clinical audit and data analysis
Skills, ability and knowledge
* Working knowledge of pharmacy procedures, practices and legislation including COSHH
* Good influencing and teaching skills
* Computer skills including working knowledge of Microsoft Word and dispensing record‑keeping
* Decision making and prioritising skills with good attention to detail and accuracy
* Ability to plan workload for self and others, set goals, co‑ordinate projects and organise services
* Clear communication with patients, carers and healthcare professionals
* Ability to motivate self and others and coach and lead a team
* Good manual, accuracy and analytical dispensing skills
* Good patient counselling skills
* Knowledge of training requirements for technical/support posts
* Ability to work accurately under pressure
* Further computing skills e.g. presentations and spreadsheets
* Change management and team management
Personal Qualities
* Professional, reliable and maintaining confidentiality at all times
* Adhere to Behavioural standards
* Team player
* Ability to work alone
* Willingness to work designated shift patterns across 7 days in accordance with service needs
Equal Opportunities
The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities wherever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive.
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