Senior Pharmacy Technician Medicines Management
The closing date is 07 June 2026
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Pharmacy Technician registered with the GPhC to join our award‑winning Pharmacy team. This role involves ward‑based activities providing face‑to‑face patient contact, completing medicines reconciliation, and discharge support to specialist ward areas. Alongside these duties you will also support our dispensary and decentralised hubs providing final checking duties and dispensing medicines.
UKVI Sponsorship: This role is eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI). We welcome applications from individuals who require sponsorship to work in the UK. Sponsorship will be offered subject to meeting UKVI eligibility criteria.
Main duties of the job
The candidate should hold a nationally recognised Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician qualification and a Medicines Reconciliation qualification, and have current/recent experience in a ward‑based role.
Successful candidates will have experience prioritising patients within ward areas; reducing missed doses by ensuring critical medications and complex patients are prioritised, whilst ensuring medicines reconciliation is completed within the 48‑hour target times and providing discharge facilitation to patients highlighted for discharge. Experience managing clinical queries and the ability to delegate to the appropriate member of the multidisciplinary team is essential to supporting the ward clinical team.
About us
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a multi‑award winning hospital which officially opened in May 1998 and is situated within easy walking distance of the historic town centre of Dorchester. It employs around 3,000 members of staff, who provide acute hospital services to a population of around 250,000, living within Weymouth and Portland, West Dorset, North Dorset and Purbeck. We also provide renal services for patients throughout Dorset and South Somerset.
The purpose‑built pharmacy provides a clinical pharmacy service to the Trust. The dispensary benefits from a new BD robot installation and a prescription tracking system, and an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system is in use throughout the majority of the hospital.
Job responsibilities
To manage conflicting priorities, you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and must be able to manage your own workload whilst motivating and managing others. You will support the training and development and overall performance of the clinical team as well as individual specialist teams. Computer literacy, and experience working both as part of a team and independently are essential.
You will be expected to work weekends, bank holidays and late duties on a rotational basis.
Person Specification
Education, Qual, Training
* BTEC National Certificate in Pharmacy and/or NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent
* GPhC Registration
Experience
* Nationally recognised Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician accreditation
* Recent practical experience in a busy dispensing/ward based environment
* Experience of training and developing staff
Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
* Demonstrated ability to check prescriptions whilst working independently
* Knowledge of the legal aspects of technician checking and the law relating to prescriptions
* Good and broad understanding of pharmacy practice to support and advise other staff
* Demonstrated ability to work methodically and accurately
* Able to analyse and interpret prescriptions, identify problems and decide upon an appropriate course of action
* Ability to work with minimum supervision
* Demonstrated ability to work on own initiative, plan and organise straightforward activities, adjusting plans and priorities as necessary depending upon circumstances
* Good knowledge of the legal requirements (Law and Ethics) for dispensing and supplying medicines, including controlled drugs
* Able to work flexibly within a team whilst having the ability to supervise, motivate and direct a team
* Committed to continuing professional development (CPD)
* Ability to work as part of a team
* Computer literacy & keyboard skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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