# Clinical medicines management technician > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-medicines-management-technician/4b724068-ef4f-48d9-9550-09ddbb7a1b59 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-medicines-management-technician/4b724068-ef4f-48d9-9550-09ddbb7a1b59.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** The Meadows - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacy technician - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-01T13:30:53.994Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/tbc/Pennine_Care_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Medicines_Management_Mental_Health/Medicines_Management_Mental_Health-v8287301 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8287301?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The mental health and learning disabilities pharmacy team in Pennine Care is progressive and forward-thinking and provides an inpatient and community mental health medicines optimisation service. We are delighted to be able to offer the opportunity to an enthusiastic technician to join the pharmacy team and aid in the development and delivery of pharmacy services to the mental health wards located in Stockport and Tameside. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will support the delivery of pharmacy services to optimise the use of medicines on the mental health wards. They will work within a ward based locality pharmacy team day to day and will be required to manage their own schedule while working with the wider pharmacy team. They will be managed professionally by the Chief Technician. The Trust’s dedicated team of pharmacists and technicians, receive regular management and clinical supervision, to maintain their wellbeing, and attend team and governance meetings. The post holder will also deliver training in medicines management, review and update guidance in relation to safe and secure handling of medicines, undertake medicines reconciliation and participate in audit work, data collection, anyalysis and action planning. As this is a clinical post, there is no dispensary commitment and no requirement for emergency duty, bank holiday or weekend working. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted. We invite all candidates to contact us for further details and an informal visit. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - - Knowledge of dispensary and patient services (3) - - Good clinical pharmaceutical knowledge (3) - - Good presentation skills (verbal and written) (3) - - Good technical pharmaceutical knowledge (3) **Desirable** - - Good IT skills (including word processing and spreadsheets) (3) ### Experience **Essential** - - Substantial experience as qualified technician in hospital pharmacy (3) - - Substantial experience of dispensary and ward based services (3) - - Experience of implementing change and new developments (3) - - Experience of developing guidelines / protocols / SOP (3) - - Experience of training healthcare professionals/ unqualified staff (3) - - Experience of audit (3) **Desirable** - Working knowledge of EPMA and related systems - Experience of working on mental health wards ### Skills & Abilities **Essential** - - Self-motivated (3) - - Data Analysis (3 - - Excellent written and verbal communication skills (3) - - Ability to work as a team member and independently (3) - - Ability to work with multidisciplinary , multi-agency groups (3) - - Ability to identify when advice needs to be sought (3) ### Education and Qualification **Essential** - BTEC Certificate in Pharmaceutical Sciences/ NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) (3) - Registered with the GPhC / proof of application in process (3) - Accuracy checking accreditation (3) ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 169.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10604852) - [person specification (pdf, 109.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10604853) - [policy statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 117.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=440) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.