Senior Clinical Pharmacy Technician – Emergency Medicine
University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6QGView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£32,073 to £39,043
Contract
Fixed-Term
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
3 November 2026
14 days leftJob description
Exciting Opportunity for a Registered Pharmacy Technician - Join Our Frontline Team at Royal Stoke Hospital Maternity leave cover (fixed term) - Senio...
The successful candidate will work across emergency medicine clinical areas. They will be a key member of the clinical pharmacy team by facilitating the implementation, monitoring, and reporting for pharmacy and a wide range of medicines-related activities. These activities will include:
- Undertake medication histories and medicines reconciliation, prioritising patients on time critical medications, patients with medicine related admissions (e.g. falls) and patients that have been in A&E for a long period of time
- Assessing patients own medicines
- Ordering of non-stock time critical medicines using our electronic ordering system
- Undertake accuracy checking of 'Take Home Prescriptions' & critical medicines
- Gain consent for the discharge medicines service process (DMS)
- Assisting with relevant audits (Controlled drugs, fridge monitoring and any excursion issues)
- Assisting with clinical incident management & implementing actions to help prevent re-occurrence - linking in with Quality Nurses
- Co-ordinating discharge planning in conjunction with pharmacy and ward staff
The successful candidate will be given the opportunity to develop their clinical knowledge.
This post offers the opportunity to gain line management and leadership experience. We offer a professionally rewarding career path with the opportunity for personal development along the way, in addition to the many other benefits you would expect from working in the NHS.
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Qualifications/Registration
Essential
- BTEC Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent nationally recognised qualification
- Accredited accuracy checker
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable: - Medicines optimisation qualification
Experience
Essential
- One year post qualification experience in an acute hospital setting
- One year experience undertaking medicine reconciliation. Evidence of competence to be provided
- Experience of POD or equivalent schemes
Desirable: - Experience of undertaking audits
Skills, Ability and Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of clinical pharmacy practice and ward based working evidencing their own competence
- Ability to present information concisely and clearly
- Supervisory skills
- Self motivated and ability to work independently
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First seen
20 October 2026
Last checked
20 October 2026
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