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Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Pharmacy Technician Medicines Management
Dorchester On-site 2-5 yrs exp Hospitals and Health Care 1,077 employees
Pharmacy TechnicianMedicines ManagementPatient ContactMedicines ReconciliationDischarge Support
Requirements
Candidates should hold a nationally recognized Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician qualification and a Medicines Reconciliation qualification. Current or recent experience in a ward-based role is essential, along with the ability to manage clinical queries and delegate tasks effectively.
Job Description
SENIOR PHARMACY TECHNICIAN – Medicines Management (Band 5) - (newly qualified technician or due to qualify in 2026 will be considered)
Full-Time (37.5 hours per week) (Maternity Cover)
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Pharmacy Technician registered with the GPhC to join our award-winning Pharmacy team. This role involves ward-based activities providing face to face patient contact, completing Medicines reconciliation, and Discharge support to specialist ward areas. Alongside these duties you will also be expected to support our dispensary and decentralised Hubs providing final checking duties and dispensing medicines.
UKVI Sponsorship: This role is eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI). We welcome applications from individuals who require sponsorship to work in the UK. Sponsorship will be offered subject to meeting UKVI eligibility criteria.
The candidate should hold a nationally recognised Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician qualification and a Medicines Reconciliation qualification. The candidate must have current/recent experience in a ward-based role.
Successful candidates will have experience in prioritising patients within ward areas; reducing missed doses by ensuring critical medications and complex patients are prioritised, whilst ensuring patients have Medicines Reconciliation completed within the 48 hours target times and providing discharge facilitation to patients highlighted for discharge. Experience managing clinical queries and having an ability to delegate to the appropriate member of the multi-disciplinary team is essential to supporting the ward clinical team.
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a multi-award winning hospital which officially opened in May 1998 and is situated within easy walking distance of the historic town centre of Dorchester. It employs around 3,000 members of staff, who provide acute hospital services to a population of around 250,000, living within Weymouth and Portland, West Dorset, North Dorset and Purbeck. We also provide renal services for patients throughout Dorset and South Somerset. Dorchester itself is an intriguing mix of historic and the modern, with the new Brewery Square development offering a vibrant and sophisticated leisure and shopping complex. Take a look at Visit Dorset to see what the area has to offer.
The purpose-built Pharmacy provides a clinical pharmacy service to Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The dispensary benefits from a new BD robot installation and a Prescription Tracking System, and an Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration is in use throughout the majority of the hospital.
We are an innovative forward-thinking department that has just undergone an exciting renovation. A series of in-house developments are still underway, giving the opportunity for successful candidates to be involved in dynamic projects which offer professional progression. Our staff are our most precious resource, and so the growth and development of those that work within this dynamic department is prioritised.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Michelle Cockram Job title: Lead Technician Medicines Management Email address: michelle.cockram@dchft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01305 255294
Full-Time (37.5 hours per week) (Maternity Cover)
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Pharmacy Technician registered with the GPhC to join our award-winning Pharmacy team. This role involves ward-based activities providing face to face patient contact, completing Medicines reconciliation, and Discharge support to specialist ward areas. Alongside these duties you will also be expected to support our dispensary and decentralised Hubs providing final checking duties and dispensing medicines.
UKVI Sponsorship: This role is eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI). We welcome applications from individuals who require sponsorship to work in the UK. Sponsorship will be offered subject to meeting UKVI eligibility criteria.
The candidate should hold a nationally recognised Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician qualification and a Medicines Reconciliation qualification. The candidate must have current/recent experience in a ward-based role.
Successful candidates will have experience in prioritising patients within ward areas; reducing missed doses by ensuring critical medications and complex patients are prioritised, whilst ensuring patients have Medicines Reconciliation completed within the 48 hours target times and providing discharge facilitation to patients highlighted for discharge. Experience managing clinical queries and having an ability to delegate to the appropriate member of the multi-disciplinary team is essential to supporting the ward clinical team.
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a multi-award winning hospital which officially opened in May 1998 and is situated within easy walking distance of the historic town centre of Dorchester. It employs around 3,000 members of staff, who provide acute hospital services to a population of around 250,000, living within Weymouth and Portland, West Dorset, North Dorset and Purbeck. We also provide renal services for patients throughout Dorset and South Somerset. Dorchester itself is an intriguing mix of historic and the modern, with the new Brewery Square development offering a vibrant and sophisticated leisure and shopping complex. Take a look at Visit Dorset to see what the area has to offer.
The purpose-built Pharmacy provides a clinical pharmacy service to Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The dispensary benefits from a new BD robot installation and a Prescription Tracking System, and an Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration is in use throughout the majority of the hospital.
We are an innovative forward-thinking department that has just undergone an exciting renovation. A series of in-house developments are still underway, giving the opportunity for successful candidates to be involved in dynamic projects which offer professional progression. Our staff are our most precious resource, and so the growth and development of those that work within this dynamic department is prioritised.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Michelle Cockram Job title: Lead Technician Medicines Management Email address: michelle.cockram@dchft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01305 255294
Education
Professional Certificate
Skills
Pharmacy TechnicianMedicines ManagementPatient ContactMedicines ReconciliationDischarge SupportDispensing MedicinesFinal Checking DutiesClinical QueriesMulti-disciplinary TeamPrioritizing PatientsWard-based RoleDelegationAccredited Checking QualificationMaternity CoverHealth Care
About Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Our busy, modern hospital provides a full range of district general services, including an accident and emergency department, and links with satellite units in five community hospitals. We are the main provider of acute hospital services to a population of around 210,000, living within Weymouth and Portland, West Dorset, North Dorset and Purbeck. We also provide renal services for patients throughout Dorset and South Somerset; a total population of 850,000. Our staff work in GP surgeries, schools, residential homes and people’s own homes as well as Dorset County Hospital and the community hospitals.