Senior Pharmacy Technician

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Senior Pharmacy Technician – Inpatient Dispensary Specialist

The closing date is 09 November 2025

Make a Real Difference in Delivering Safe and Effective Pharmacy Services

We’re looking for an enthusiastic and experienced pharmacy technician to take on an exciting leadership role within our Inpatient Dispensary. As a Senior Pharmacy Technician – Inpatient Dispensary Specialist, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the safe, efficient and timely supply of medicines to our patients.

Working as part of a supportive and friendly pharmacy team, you’ll use your expertise to support the Inpatient Dispensary Managers in optimising dispensary services, streamlining processes, and upholding the highest standards of patient care.

In this role, you’ll lead on the training and development of all pharmacy staff, ensuring colleagues are confident and competent in every aspect of inpatient dispensing, accuracy checking, and best practice. Your leadership will help foster a culture of learning, excellence and continuous improvement within the dispensary.

If you’re a motivated, detail‑focused technician with excellent communication skills and a passion for improving patient experience, we’d love to welcome you to our team.

Join us and be part of a team that makes a difference every day.

Main duties of the job

This role supports the efficient operational management of the Inpatient Dispensary, working closely with the Dispensary Managers to ensure the smooth day‑to‑day running of services. Key responsibilities include

- assisting with the coordination of dispensary activities;
- dispensing and accuracy‑checking of prescriptions and ensuring the safe and effective management of stock;
- leading and supporting the induction and competency‑based training of new staff;
- maintaining up‑to‑date training records;
- contributing to ongoing quality improvement and service development within the department.

About us

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1,100 beds, the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, this is a testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together – Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve and welcome applications for all positions regardless of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status or socio‑economic background.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full‑time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full‑time permanent contract unless you have applied for a Graduate visa or have successfully completed your course and applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment, or the Trust has agreed that it will sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment.

For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those who are not. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 9th November 2025.

Interviews are due to be held on 17th November 2025.

Why choose Cambridge University Hospitals?

Our values and reputation for outstanding care • Opportunities to experience a range of specialities • Career and development opportunities • Preceptorship and mentoring programmes delivered by a dedicated clinical education support team • Research experience and opportunities • Lovely location and quality of life • Excellent schools/colleges and transport links (road, rail and air)

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals we want to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on‑site leisure facilities, a shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes reduced‑cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as are journeys to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces located in the Deakin Centre – a purpose‑created colleague‑only café with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work‑life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include part‑time working, job‑share, term‑time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note, if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Minimum qualification NVQ3 Pharmacy Services, BTEC Pharmaceutical Science or CGLI/Apothecaries Hall pre‑1985 certificates or equivalent.
- Checking accreditation, one or all of: Accredited Checking Technician (National Framework), Medicines Management Accreditation (CMMPT or national equivalent) and Preparative Services Checking Accreditation.
- Member of Association of Pharmacy Technicians (APTUK)
- Management accreditation or qualification
- Accredited as an Educational Supervisor for the ACPT scheme
- Attendance at Train the Trainer course

Experience

- Hospital pharmacy experience or equivalent relevant area of practice
- Experience of pharmacy computer systems for ordering, stock control and managing pharmaceuticals.
- Experience of coordinating a team and people management
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to create documents and spreadsheets and extract information.
- Experience with electronic prescribing and administration systems
- Experience of stock control management
- Experience of line management

Knowledge

- Knowledge of Pharmacy computer systems.
- Awareness of NICE, NSF and NPSA and involved in implementation of relevant guidance.
- Policies and procedures.
- Hospital Pharmacy Dispensary practices.
- Controlled Drug Legislation.
- Formulary management.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Understanding of Pharmacy Governance.
- Experience of leading a team or small‑scale service or service change.
- Experience of communicating with a broad range of stakeholders.

Skills

- Communicate effectively in both written and verbal formats with staff and patients.
- Able to prioritise in response to competing demands.
- Be methodical in approach.
- Ability to influence and negotiate.
- Ability to review and adapt plans as circumstances dictate.
- Ability to train different staff groups.

Additional Requirements

- The ability to understand and behave at all times towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
- Ability to think ahead and plan accordingly.
- Ability to prioritise and organise routine daily tasks using own initiative.
- Willingness to undertake further training as required.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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