# Lead Technician: Medicines Management & Trustwide Pharm Development > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-technician-medicines-management-and-trustwide-pharm-development/af910d52-f256-4d0b-831e-549e8ffef82d - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-technician-medicines-management-and-trustwide-pharm-development/af910d52-f256-4d0b-831e-549e8ffef82d.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** East London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Adult Mental Health Services - Tower Hamlets Directorate - **Workplace type:** hybrid - **Profession:** Technician (discipline unspecified) - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Inc HCA - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Home or remote working, 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 09:00 - 17:00. Home working available for 1 day a week.) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-04T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-21T09:41:23.685Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/luton/East_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy_Technician/Pharmacy_Technician-v8243811 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8243811?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.elft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview This is a rare and exciting opportunity for an experienced Pharmacy Technician Leader to shape the future of medicines management and pharmacy workforce development across Luton & Bedfordshire and the wider ELFT Pharmacy Service. As the Pharmacy Technician Lead, you will play a pivotal role in delivering safe, high‑quality medicines management for inpatient services while driving Trust‑wide excellence in pharmacy technician education, training and professional development. This senior post blends operational leadership, clinical impact, and strategic workforce development — offering a unique platform for an ambitious, forward‑thinking technician to influence practice at scale. You will lead a motivated technical workforce, oversee medicines supply and governance processes, support MDTs to optimise patient care, and act as the Educational Programme Director for Pre‑Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians. Your leadership will directly enhance patient safety, improve staff experience, and strengthen the Trust’s medicines optimisation agenda. This role sits at the heart of ELFT’s commitment to delivering outstanding patient care, empowering its workforce, and continually improving medicines safety. If you are passionate about developing people, advancing technical pharmacy services, and driving innovation, this role offers the scope, support and visibility to make a meaningful difference. ### Main duties of the job This senior post requires exceptional organisational and leadership capability, underpinned by extensive experience in delivering high‑quality hospital and community pharmacy services. The role demands a forward‑thinking leader with a clear passion for advancing pharmacy technical services, departmental education, training, and workforce development, ensuring a culture of excellence across all pharmacy functions, including being the Educational Programme Director for Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians (PTPT). Please see attached Job description (JD) ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached Job description (JD) for more detail. - Clinical Pharmacy and Patient care - Service Development and business activities - Leadership and Management - Medicines supply and dispensary services - Trustwide Education and Training lead role (1.5 days a week) ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant UK Hospital Pharmacy Experience - Experience of developing implementing SOP, policies and guidelines - Teaching and Training of Pharmacy staff - Ability to lead a team - Experience dealing with disciplinary matters **Desirable** - Experience managing change - Producing detailed reports based on data and observations ### Knowledge and Skills. **Essential** - Deliver change within short deadlines as appropriate - Monitor/review and develop service standards - Conflict resolution, negotiation skills and proven assertiveness. - Ability to make critical decisions under presssure **Desirable** - Knowledge of how secondary care MH services may develop over the next 5 years - Use JAC/RIO ### Education/Qualifications **Essential** - Management experience - GPC registered Pharmacy Technician - Accredited Medicines Management Technician - Accuracy Checking Technician - NVQ assesor **Desirable** - Quality Improvement qualification - Educational Supervisor ## Documents - [jd & ps (pdf, 384.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10555078) - [elft at a glance (pdf, 151.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1110) - [elft strategy 2026 (pdf, 421.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3090) - [elft staff benefits leaflet (pdf, 920.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1111) - [trust demographic information (pdf, 1.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1844) ## 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.