Are you a qualified, registered Pharmacy Technician looking for a rewarding and varied role within a small and friendly team?
You’ll have the opportunity to work across mental health services and community settings, based at Prospect Park Hospital in Reading with regular rotation across our community hospitals including Wokingham, Maidenhead, Newbury, Reading and Slough. This varied role balances ward‑based responsibilities, including medicines reconciliation, PODs checking, stock management and discharge support, alongside accuracy‑checking and daily dispensary tasks.
You’ll join a collaborative and supportive team that values shared learning, encourages new ideas and takes pride in delivering patient‑centred care.
There’s access to excellent development opportunities, including support to complete your ACPT qualification and ward‑based accreditations if you don’t already hold them.
We are a CQC “Outstanding” Trust and are ranked third among Mental Health and Community Trusts. We score highly in NHS staff surveys including our staff consistently recommending us as a great place to work.
We support a positive work‑life balance and you’ll have usual hours of Monday‑Friday, 9am‑5pm, plus participation in the dispensary late‑shift rota, with no weekends or night shifts.
Join us at Berkshire Healthcare, to help deliver a high‑quality, safe and effective pharmacy service across our Trust.
This is a joint role, with time spent both in the dispensary and our wards:
* Delivering a fast and effective pharmacy services to the wards and departments
* Completing accuracy checking session(s)
* Providing an admission, supply and discharge service to nominated wards.
* Checking Patients’ Own Drugs (PODs).
* Undertaking medicines reconciliation.
* Supporting patients to ensure that they get the best possible outcomes from their medicines.
* Providing a ward top‑up service.
* Working with the clozapine clinic team to ensure medicines are ready for the Trust wide clinics.
* Developing skills and knowledge as part of a commitment to CPD and Clinical Supervision
* Providing support to Pre‑registration Pharmacy Technicians and support workers while they undertake their learning.
Applications will be reviewed and processed as received. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated “outstanding” by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our Values At Berkshire Healthcare Are
* Caring for and about you is our top priority
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services
* Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
* Flexible working options to support work‑life balance
* 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
* Generous NHS pension scheme
* Excellent learning and career development opportunities
* ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
* Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
* Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
* Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
* Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
* Free parking across Trust sites
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Catherine Moulds
Job title: Talent Acquisition Partner
Email address: catherine.moulds@berkshire.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07890 611 185
or alternatively contact Sara Jackson, Clinical Pharmacy Technician Team Manager on:
tel: 0118 960 5080
email: Sara.Jackson@berkshire.nhs.uk
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