# Lead Pharmacy Technician - Training & Development

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Wye Valley NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Wye Valley NHS Trust
- **Location:** The County Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Pharmacy technician
- **Salary:** £39959.00 to £48117.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Able to fulfil the requirements for bank holidays and weekend working and work flexibly according to service needs/demands)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T09:38:29.242Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8339504
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8339504?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

As an accredited Pharmacy Technician with significant hospital pharmacy experience, you will be a positive role model, an effective communicator and a champion for learning and continuous improvement. If you are enthusiastic about developing others, driving excellence and helping to build a skilled, future-focused pharmacy workforce, we would love to hear from you.

### Main duties of the job

- Training and Development
- To work with department leads to establish appropriate rotas in order to facilitate the rotation of students through the department
- To complete the registration of new students to their training providers
- To support and assess NVQ 2 and NVQ 3 students training through Buttercups (department wide)
- To carry out end of period reviews and assessments for NVQ2 and NVQ3 students training through Buttercups
- To support the BMET (or other training provider) students and liaise with the provider where necessary
- Complete quarterly LDA Census updates for the Trust
- Attend regional Training and Education meetings (West Midlands)
- Attend and support careers evenings and events and promote Pharmacy as a career
- To co-ordinate and facilitate ACT training for the department
- To co-ordinate and facilitate CD training and the West Midlands Dispensing Accuracy Assessment for the department and as a mentor for those carrying out the assessments
- Take referrals from department leads with regards to individuals who require tailored one-to-one support; support the individuals and their ongoing progression
- To be responsible for apprentice recruitment and support for the department
- To manage and facilitate requests for work experience
- To work with the MSO to facilitate learning from mistakes
- To deliver Medicines Optimisation training when necessary

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.

### 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

### Skills

**Essential**

- IT Literate in routine Microsoft applications ( Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc)
- Knowledge and understanding of basic management principles including team management and motivation
- Knowledge and skills to mentor and develop staff

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant experience in Acute Hospital Pharmacy
- Experience of carrying out performance reviews and development of staff including training.
- Development and consistent delivery of Key Performance Indicators for a service
- Involvement/Leadership in project delivery

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- GPhC Registration as Pharmacy Technician
- Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician
- Management or education post registration qualification (or equivalent experience in a hospital setting)

## Documents

- [wvt benefits (pdf, 621.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1985)
- [229-cs-8339504 jdps (pdf, 144.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10663480)

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