# Developmental / Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Bodmin
- **Region:** South West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Pharmacy technician
- **Grade:** Band 4
- **Salary:** £27,485 - £37,796 Per Annum/Pro Rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent: We would consider a band 4 to 5 progression pathway for the right candidate - students can apply
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, Annualised hours, 37.5 hours per week (Includes weekend working)
- **Closing date:** 2026-08-04T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-21T10:42:36.259Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cornwall/TBC/Cornwall_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8170885
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8170885?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.cornwallft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Applications will be accepted from students who are in their 2nd year of study and are due to qualify.  Are you a Pharmacy Technician seeking a rewarding and dynamic role where you can contribute to patient safety and work as part of a multidisciplinary team across both hospital and community services? If you're looking for variety and a focus on clinical care, this is the role for you!

You'll provide clinical pharmacy services to Community Hospitals across Cornwall. Your base location is negotiable, though travel to other sites will be required. Working patterns, including a rolling weekend rota, are flexible and open to discussion for the right candidate.

We aim to recruit at Band 5, but we are open to a Band 4 to 5 development opportunity for suitable applicants.

This varied role will require working independently and collaboratively within the wider pharmacy team. As a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician, you’ll support medicines reconciliation, prescription reviews, discharge facilitation, ward-based dispensing, medication recycling, patient counselling, and audits across both physical and mental health inpatient teams.  Please note: If you require sponsorship, check eligibility for a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) on the gov.uk website before applying.

### Main duties of the job

- To provide a comprehensive medicines management service to patients on these wards which includes medicines reconciliation, prescription review and endorsement, recycling of medication, supporting self-medication and, where necessary, patient and carer counselling.
- To participate in multi-disciplinary activities such as attending ward handover meetings and facilitation and preparation of discharge medication including the handover of information regarding a patient’s medication to other healthcare professionals if required.
- To work with the pharmacy team in delivering clinical pharmacy and safe systems of working with medicines across other community hospital and mental health sites.
- To supervise and support with education and training activities such as student technicians, student pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists
- To specialise if the opportunity arises as per service needs and personal interest (for example, Parkinson’s, Medicines Safety)  This post will support hospitals within Cornwall. Base location can be negotiated but there will be a requirement to travel to other peripheral hospitals.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view a detailed job description and person specification, including the main responsibilities of this role, please see ‘supporting documents’.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of working as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working within Standard Operating Procedures

**Desirable**

- Experience of working within community hospital settings

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- BTEC/NVQ level 3 in pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent
- Current and continued registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

**Desirable**

- Accredited checking Technician status
- Accredited Medicines Management Technician status

### Knowledge and Abilities

**Essential**

- Experience of working as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to understand and empathise with people suffering from mental health illness

## Documents

- [autism support (pdf, 38.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=977)
- [dyslexia support (pdf, 76.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1833)
- [job description (pdf, 560.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10473035)
- [job description (pdf, 616.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10473036)
- [progression pathway (pdf, 218.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10473038)
- [parental entitlement (pdf, 300.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1834)
- [functional requirements (pdf, 360.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10473037)
- [recruitment complaints policy (pdf, 113.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=976)

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