# Patient Services Senior Pharmacy Technician - Dispensary Team Leader > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/patient-services-senior-pharmacy-technician-dispensary-team-leader/4dcc020b-5173-40b5-b0b2-1dfc44b60e6b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/patient-services-senior-pharmacy-technician-dispensary-team-leader/4dcc020b-5173-40b5-b0b2-1dfc44b60e6b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Luton and Dunstable University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Team leader - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover) - **Employment type:** 37.5 hours per week (Full time with late night and weekend working) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-15T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-01T12:51:49.510Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Bedfordshire/Luton/Bedfordshire_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8200226 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8200226?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.ldh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Pharmacy Technician to work as a key part of the pharmacy team within our modern automated, dispensary area. This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced registered pharmacy technician to work as an ACPT and gain skills in staff management and service development in a busy hospital pharmacy department. Alongside the accuracy checking responsibility, the post holder will have a leadership role which includes supporting with the day to day smooth running of the dispensary, training staff through supervision and monitoring performance. This position requires a proactive and dynamic individual to work closely with peers and dispensary management to uphold the high standards of patient care and medicines optimisation. You must be able to demonstrate an enthusiasm for trying new roles, supporting innovation and delivering an excellent patient experience. The successful candidate must be registered with the GPhC and have an accuracy checking qualification. Further training will be provided on staff management. The L&D Pharmacy is a 7 day service and some weekend shifts will be required. Please ensure you speak to your Line Manager before applying for this secondment opportunity and visit the Trust's Secondment Policy. ### Main duties of the job To perform the technical accuracy check on dispensed prescriptions. To undertake day-to-day supervision of junior pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants within the Team. To support delivery of dispensary Key Performance Indicators. To provide training in dispensary procedures and pharmacy computer use to all members of staff. To mentor and develop pharmacy assistants To act as a professional role model for pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians, junior pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants, actively demonstrating integrity, ownership and leadership in all aspects of the role. To manage a defined area of responsibility within the prescribed medication supply chain. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities To perform the final technical accuracy check on dispensed prescriptions which have been clinically screened by a pharmacist. This may include prescriptions in both the Main dispensary and in the Satellite dispensaries To lead a team of junior and PTPTs and Pharmacy assistants in the dispensary, organising and directing their work in a fluid manner to ensure an efficient and responsive service to patients and wards To support the Principal Pharmacy Technician in managing and developing staff within their Team, monitoring performance and supporting on-going professional development. To assist the Principal Pharmacy Technician, Dispensary in providing ‘hands on’ induction and on-going training of members of dispensary staff and other pharmacy staff in dispensary procedures including use of the pharmacy IT system. This will include NVQ assessments at level 2 and 3 and competency assessments for pharmacist pre-registration trainees. To support the Principal Pharmacy Technician in maintaining continuous improvement and efficiency within the dispensary by managing discrete projects and/or areas of responsibility within the prescribed medication supply chain and being responsible for achieving defined outcomes. To assist the Principal Pharmacy Technician, Dispensary in the co-ordination of dispensing of medicines for in-patients, out-patients and ward use. This will include when necessary, personally receiving prescriptions into dispensary and ensuring prescription charges are collected where appropriate, accurately labelling, assembling and dispensing individual in-patient, out-patient and discharge prescriptions including cytotoxic medicines, according to departmental policies and standard operating procedures. It will involve solving problems arising from these procedures, including contacting other healthcare professionals. To counsel individual patients regarding correct use of medicines when appropriate. To include counselling / demonstration of inhaler and other medical device techniques. This may include counselling of patients at ward level at discharge. To contribute to the provision of information on medicines and general health care to out-patients through the use of posters and leaflets. To assist the Senior Pharmacy Technician, Clinical Trials, in cascading the procedures required for the dispensing of clinical trial medicines. This includes ensuring all appropriate paperwork is maintained. To support the Principal Pharmacy Technician, Dispensary in overseeing the safe and secure storage and dispensing of controlled drugs, ensuring all statutory registers are maintained accurately. To ensure all appropriate patient medication history data and prescription data is entered accurately onto computerised and manual databases. This will include maintaining databases of prescribing of unlicensed medicines and non-formulary prescribing. To support the co-ordination of efficient stock control within the Dispensary, through a rolling programme of stock reconciliation checks and expiry checks on a regular basis. This includes organising safe destruction of drug waste and investigating wrong stock levels and problem solving. To liaise with relevant pharmacy and other healthcare staff to ensure an efficient, responsive service to directorates. To implement systems for service provision which enhance the efficiency of the dispensaries To regularly formulate, review, update and implement standard operating procedures for the dispensaries. Please see job description and person specification provided. If further information is required, please speak to our contact on advert. ### 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 ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to analyse problems and devise workable solutions - Good interpersonal skills **Desirable** - Leading a team ### Knowledge **Essential** - Knowledge of use of Pharmacy computer systems **Desirable** - Familiarity with standard Office IT programs ### Expierence **Essential** - Customer orientated services - Experience of supervising staff **Desirable** - Experience of contributing to SOP development ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy Technician - BTEC + NVQ level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent qualification - ACPT qualification **Desirable** - Membership with ATPUK - Leadership Qualification ### Communication Skills **Essential** - Good verbal and written communication skills - Experience of patient medication counselling - Empathetic communication skills ## Documents - [staff benefits (png, 1.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2879) - [l&d hospital site map (pdf, 96.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1454) - [staff diversity network (pdf, 140.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2866) - [b5 senior pharmacy technician - ps (pdf, 48.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10506009) - [b5 senior pharmacy technician - fa (pdf, 176.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10506010) - [b5 senior pharmacy technician - jd (pdf, 392.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10506008) - [information for disabled applicants (pdf, 98.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2870) - [disclosure & barring information and recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 78.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1456) ## 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.