Pharmacy Technician

Job overview

Join an Award-Winning Team

Are you a registered pharmacy technician ready to specialise in mental health pharmacy?

Our pharmacy service was named APTUK Pharmacy Technician Team of the Year 2025, recognised nationally for innovation, collaboration, and advancing pharmacy technician practice in mental health.

We are recruiting a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our East Sussex team, primarily based at the Department of Psychiatry, with responsibilities extending to inpatient wards, Havens, and some community services across East Sussex.

Your focus will be on delivering a safe and effective medicines optimisation service to the Eastbourne Haven, helping patients get the best outcomes from their medicines. You’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring healthcare staff are confident and supported in safe, effective, and cost-conscious medicines use.

Main duties of the job

• Provide clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services across inpatient wards, Havens, and community settings in East Sussex.

• Advise clinicians, nursing staff, and patients on safe, effective, and cost-conscious medicines use.

• Support clozapine clinics, including point-of-care testing and overdue bloods monitoring.

• Take part in discharge planning, ensuring safe transition of care into the community.

• Lead and contribute to audits, medicines safety initiatives, and service development projects.

• Work closely with pharmacy colleagues across East Sussex and the wider Trust to deliver high-quality, patient-centred services.
• Provide medicines reconciliation for patients in the Eastbourne Haven Unit
• We’re excited to be bringing a new medicines supply service in-house later in 2026—an important step that creates fresh opportunities for innovation, skill development, and career progression across our team. This Pharmacy Hub will be situated at our Swandean site in Worthing. This change will also strengthen how we support our trainee pharmacy professionals on their career journeys. As we grow our dispensary function, all staff will play a key role in supporting the implementation and delivery of this service while we recruit into new dispensary roles, helping to shape a dynamic and collaborative working environment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will work as an integral member of the Pharmacy Team, providing a high‑quality pharmacy technician service to support safe and effective use of medicines within mental health services, with a primary focus on Eastbourne Haven urgent care services.

Key responsibilities include undertaking medicines reconciliation for individuals presenting in crisis, liaising with service users, carers, GP practices, community pharmacies, and clinical teams to confirm accurate medication histories and support safe prescribing decisions. The post holder will typically support medicines reconciliation for approximately 1–4 patients per day at Eastbourne Haven.

The role includes supporting medicines optimisation, counselling service users on their medicines where appropriate, and contributing to safe onward care planning. The post holder will support safe transitions of care, escalate medicines‑related concerns to pharmacists, and work in line with Trust policies, procedures, and medicines governance requirements.

The post holder will work collaboratively with pharmacists, nurses, prescribers, and the wider multidisciplinary team to support urgent care flow and high‑quality crisis response. They will contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement activity as required, and support the training and supervision of pharmacy staff where appropriate.