Pharmacy Technician - Production Services
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JLView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
22 October 2026
3 days leftJob description
Pharmacy Production Technician - Band 4 to Band 5 Progression Post We are pleased to offer an exciting development opportunity within the Pharmacy Pro...
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Knowledge Requirements
Essential
- Knowledge of dispensing processes
- Keyboard skills
- Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice and COSHH regulations
- Knowledge of specialised production technical practice
Desirable: - Knowledge of Good manufacturing Practice; - Knowledge of COSHH regulations; - Further IT skills including 'word' and 'Excel' programs
Qualifications
Essential: - NVQ 3 / BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent; - Registered Technician with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable: - A levels
Further Training
Essential
- To have completed in house training for preparation of intrathecal injections, or be willing to do so and undertake annual update
- Validated to check volumes and drug additions, or be willing to undertake validation
- Validated aseptic technique, or be willing to undertake validation. Validation involves 3 monthly broth transfer tests
- Validated, or be willing to undertake annual transfer validations
Experience
Essential: - Recent and up-to-date post qualification hospital pharmacy experience; - Aseptic work experience; - Good verbal and written communication skills
Desirable: - Hospital pharmacy experience, including aseptic production work
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Regular attendance
- Ability to work weekends/bank holidays
- Neonatal on call rota
- No long-term infectious diseases or drug allergies precluding sterile/non-sterile production work
- Regular fire lectures and manual handling training
- Annual intrathecal training and on register for preparation of intrathecal injections
Desirable: - Ability to travel between hospital sites; - Required to travel between sites; - Telephone owner
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
13 October 2026
Last checked
14 October 2026
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