Band 5
Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9 - 5 with 30 minute break) Job ref 270-TG758-CORP
Site St Mary's Hospital Town Kettering Salary £31,049 - £37,796 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 13/03/2026 09:00
Job overview
At Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), we are proud to be rated Outstanding by the CQC and recognised nationally for delivering high‑quality, compassionate and innovative care.
As part of our commitment to excellence, we are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Medicines Management Technician to join our Mental Health Pharmacy Team. The post will be based at St Mary's Hospital in Kettering and is a permanent full time post.
The Medicines Management Technician will support the safe, effective, and timely use of medicines across NHFT’s mental health inpatient and community services, including completing medicines reconciliation and coordinating medication supply. Working closely with pharmacists, nursing teams, and community services, the postholder will help ensure high‑quality patient care through accurate medicines management and excellent multidisciplinary collaboration.
You will work closely with our Clinical Pharmacy Team and be fully supported by our Lead Pharmacy Technician and senior pharmacy colleagues.
Past experience in mental health is helpful but not essential to the role as full training will be provided by experienced Mental Health specialists. With an established clozapine clinic already in place and being run by our existing pharmacy technicians, this is a great opportunity for the right person to progress into clinical technician roles.
Main duties of the job
As a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician, you will be required to work across mental health and physical health inpatient wards to support with medicines management.
This varied and rewarding role includes:
* Supporting medicines supply for mental health inpatients, community hospitals, hospices and mental health community teams
* Managing stock, non-stock, discharge and leave medications
* Supporting safe disposal and management of unwanted medicines
* Providing advice to staff and counselling patients on their medicines
* Participating in and supporting our locality Clozapine clinics, including PoCHI operation and same-day medication supply
* Liaising with patients, families, nurses, pharmacists, community teams, GPs, acute hospitals and external providers
* Contributing to audits, service development, and continuous improvement activities
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Experience
* Post Qualification experience in the NHS as a pharmacy technician
* Experience of liaising with other healthcare professionals
* Ward-based Medicines Management Experince
* Experience of supplying clozapine
* Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
* Experience of counselling patients on multiple medicines
Qualifications and experience
* Current registration and membership with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician
* NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services (or course equivalent )
* Evidence of recent continual professional learning
* Previous use of SystmOne or electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) systems
By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.
You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.
Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.
Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.
We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.
All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,
At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly, the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary.
Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 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.
Name Jemma Gambrill Job title Lead Pharmacy Techncian Email address jemma.gambrill@nhft.nhs.uk Telephone number 0300 027 1636 Additional information
Alternatively contact Vicky Deacon - Lead Pharmacy Technician victoria.deacon@nhft.nhs.uk
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