# Rotational Pharmacy Technician > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/rotational-pharmacy-technician/8fb26131-30e0-4c7c-8923-36fad34213e1 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/rotational-pharmacy-technician/8fb26131-30e0-4c7c-8923-36fad34213e1.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacy technician - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £34,186 - £37,389 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-19T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-03T15:43:06.844Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8106070 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8106070?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a qualified Pharmacy Technician looking to broaden your experience across a variety of clinical and operational settings? We’re looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, patient orientated pharmacy technician dedicated to teamwork and personal development to join our Rotational Pharmacy Technician programme. This is an exciting opportunity for a registered pharmacy technician to join the dynamic, innovative, supportive and friendly pharmacy team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest acute trusts in the country and in partnership with Imperial College London is one of the UK's first academic health science centres (AHSCs). The creation of the AHSC is a major advance for patient care, clinical teaching and scientific invention and innovation Pharmacy technician applicants must be registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills, work alongside a multidisciplinary team, and contribute to high-quality patient care. ### Main duties of the job The aim of the Rotational Pharmacy Technician training programme is to: - Develop pharmacy technicians' knowledge and skills to have a patient centered approach in all the key roles in the pharmacy specialist areas e.g. dispensary and on the wards across sites. - Deliver high standards of hospital pharmacy services to patients and end users. - Ensure that service provision is flexible and responsive to patient and users’ needs from dispensary (all sites) and on the wards. - Have a good understanding of the roles of multi-disciplinary team members. - Pharmacy services are highly regarded by both patients and Trust staff and the high profile of our service and the positive feedback we receive make it a stimulating and rewarding place to work. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Job Details Are you a qualified Pharmacy Technician looking to broaden your experience across a variety of clinical and operational settings? We’re looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, patient orientated pharmacy technician dedicated to teamwork and personal development to join our Rotational Pharmacy Technician programme. This is an exciting opportunity for a registered pharmacy technician to join the dynamic, innovative, supportive and friendly pharmacy team at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest acute trusts in the country and in partnership with Imperial College London is one of the UK's first academic health science centres (AHSCs). The creation of the AHSC is a major advance for patient care, clinical teaching and scientific invention and innovation Pharmacy technician applicants must be registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills, work alongside a multidisciplinary team, and contribute to high-quality patient care. ## Job Description The aim of the Rotational Pharmacy Technician training programme is to: Develop pharmacy technicians' knowledge and skills to have a patient centered approach in all the key roles in the pharmacy specialist areas e.g. dispensary and on the wards across sites. Deliver high standards of hospital pharmacy services to patients and end users. Ensure that service provision is flexible and responsive to patient and users’ needs from dispensary (all sites) and on the wards. Have a good understanding of the roles of multi-disciplinary team members. Pharmacy services are highly regarded by both patients and Trust staff and the high profile of our service and the positive feedback we receive make it a stimulating and rewarding place to work. ## Responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - The ability to communicate empathetically towards patients - Literate in the use of information technology - Good knowledge of main roles and practise of pharmacy staff - Able to interpret and dispense prescriptions accurately, competently provide basic patient counselling **Desirable** - ECDL - foundation - Previous supervisory experience ### Education **Essential** - BTEC Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent - Mandatory professional CPD as defined by the GPhC **Desirable** - Professional Pharmacy Technician registration with the GPhC – Essential eligibility to enter the GPhC register within 3 months. - ACPT or recognised accredited pharmacy technician checking qualification (or to be achieved within 12 months of commencement) - HEE (Health Education England) Medicines Optimisation Programme (MOP) POD Transcribing for Supply and Medicines Reconciliations modules or equivalent (Patient's Own Drugs) Checking - Practice Supervisor (P.S) ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working in a UK pharmacy, this must include experience of dispensing prescriptions - Experience of pharmacy computer systems - Experience in delivering high quality customer care **Desirable** - A solid grounding in all aspects of UK hospital practice (aseptic and dispensing services) - Experience of working in an in-patient hospital dispensary within the last year - Experience of working as a ward-based pharmacy technician. ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 300.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10400723) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) - [functional requirements (pdf, 304.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10400724) ## 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.