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Rotational Pharmacy Technician Band 4 - 5 progression
The closing date is 16 November 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an organised and motivated individual with good communication skills to undertake a split post between the clinical pharmacy team and dispensary.
As a band 4 to band 5 progression post, once the specific criteria has been met and reviewed, the post holder will move from band 4 to 5 and become a Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician. Progress will be reviewed regularly.
This is a great time to join the pharmacy team as we look to expand our clinical pharmacy services post merger. Your focus will be to deliver a patient‑centred pharmacy service to ensure medicines reconciliation is completed within 24 hours of admission. Other key duties include simple medication counselling as well as supporting a fast and efficient discharge process utilising our satellite pharmacies.
We are a digitally advanced trust with electronic prescribing already in place, and have installed a bespoke dashboard allowing pharmacists and technicians to prioritise their workload. This allows us to focus our efforts on patient facing activities such as medication counselling.
This opportunity presents the successful candidates with a chance to build on experience they may already have. We are fully committed to your training and development to enable you to maximise your potential contribution to patient care.
Newly qualified Pharmacy Technicians and Student Technicians due to qualify are also encouraged to apply.
Main duties of the job
* To provide routine technical pharmacy support in a professional manner which supports a high quality, patient orientated service.
* Support the clinical pharmacy team in delivering medicines reconciliation and supporting the discharge process at ward level.
* To provide straightforward pharmaceutical advice to patients / carers / ward staff.
* To undertake day‑to‑day supervision and support of Pharmacy Assistants and Pre‑registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians within the team.
* To undertake checking Pharmacy Technician accreditation (ACPT) and perform ACPT duties.
* To act as a professional role model for pre‑registration trainee Pharmacy Technicians and pharmacy assistants, actively demonstrating integrity, ownership and leadership in all aspects of the role.
* To work closely with other healthcare professionals at ward level.
About us
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.
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.
Job responsibilities
Please see job description and person specification provided. If further information is required, please speak to our contact on advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
* BTEC + NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Services
* Registration with the GPhC
Experience
* Ability to work to SOPs. Customer orientated services
Skills
* Ability to organise own day to day work tasks Ability to prioritise ad‑hoc work tasks
* Member of APTUK
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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