BDCFT Acute Inpatient Services has funded new roles for pharmacy technicians to work on our inpatient wards. Successful candidates will administer medicines to our patients at medication rounds, support admission and discharge medicines reconciliation, provide a full medicines management and optimisation service to the wards and play an important role in the physical healthcare of our inpatients.
The postholder will work closely with pharmacy staff including pharmacists, other pharmacy technicians and assistants.
Full training and support to administer medicines will be provided.
Closing Date: 26th November 2025
Shortlisting Date: 27th November 2025
Interview Date: Early December 2025
To provide medicines management technical pharmacy services in order to improve the quality of patient care within Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Responsibilities
* Undertake medication administration rounds
* Screen patients on admission, contact GPs and/or other healthcare providers to ascertain the patient’s medication history and advise Trust staff of identified discrepancies.
* Provide smoking cessation advice to inpatients
* Identify potential pharmaceutical issues that may arise during discharge planning and work with multidisciplinary teams to resolve.
* Dispense and issue prescriptions, including accuracy checking
* Provide advice to patients and carers
* Supply stock items to dispensaries and wards
* Assess patients’ own medicines for use during the inpatient stay
* Help ensure that all activities within the area of work comply with departmental procedures
Core Values
* We Care: Act with respect and empathy, always valuing difference
* We Listen: Understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs
* We Deliver: Develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
Benefits
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and offer a range of benefits including:
* Increased mileage rates for >3500
* A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
* Internal and external development and learning opportunities
* Many more
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Adam Hussain – Chief Technician
Email: adam.hussain@bdct.nhs.uk
Telephone: 01274 363230
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