# Senior Clinical Pharmacy Technician, SWLEOC > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-pharmacy-technician-swleoc/c6ea033a-6ece-4c5e-a901-b6b5ce8f0088 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-pharmacy-technician-swleoc/c6ea033a-6ece-4c5e-a901-b6b5ce8f0088.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacy technician - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £36,943 - £44,900 pa pro rata inc. HCAS outer - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-17T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-03T09:01:29.421Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Carshalton/Epsom_St_Helier_University_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Clinical_Pharmacy/Clinical_Pharmacy-v8270168 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8270168?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Clinical Pharmacy Technician, South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC) to join our friendly team and help shape the future of our pharmacy services at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals. As a Senior Clinical Pharmacy Technician, you will play a key role in providing high-quality, patient-centred care on the renal wards. You will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of medication reconciliation, a vital step in ensuring that patients receive the correct medications right from the start of their hospital stay. You will also be involved in the seamless management of Patients’ Own Medication, supporting the efficient and effective practice of one-stop dispensing. But your impact doesn't stop there. You will play a pivotal role in streamlining the patient experience, ensuring timely dispensation of To Take Out medications to support smooth and prompt patient discharges. Your adept communication skills will bridge connections with our community healthcare partners, ensuring that our patients receive a consistent and seamless continuum of care. This role is about more than just managing medications; it is about improving patient safety and contributing to a streamlined, compassionate healthcare service in line with our Trust values. We have one post available: Primarily based at Epsom Hospital ### Main duties of the job Your primary role being to undertake medicines reconciliation and take drug histories in order to ensure the patients receive the correct medications right from the start of their hospital stay to ensure that there is appropriate usage of Patient’s Own medication and to promote one stop dispensing. You will be involved throughout the patient journey helping the wards to ensure TTOs are dispensed prior to discharge, communicating effectively with our community colleagues when appropriate. You will be an accredited checking technician (ACPT) and will have regular checking slots in the dispensary. In liaison with the Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services and other members of the pharmacy team you will also be involved in the management of medicines on the ward, audit and financial savings projects. You will participate in late duty, Bank Holiday and weekend rotas and be part of a seven day service. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification. ### 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** - Effective written communication skills - Ability to identify and solve problems - Ability to work independently and as part of a team **Desirable** - Familiarity with JAC/CMM ### Experience **Essential** - Post qualification UK hospital experience - Patient counselling experience - Multidisciplinary team work **Desirable** - Medicines management / clinical experience - Experience of working with homecare systems - Delivering services to a renal specialty ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered technician with General Pharmaceutical Council - Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician - Accreditation in Medicines Management (AIMM) **Desirable** - NVQ Practice and/or Educational Supervisor ## Documents - [dbs policy (pdf, 101.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=677) - [we're here to care (doc, 39.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=678) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2413) - [band 5 senior clinical pharmacy technician swleoc jd (pdf, 416.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10585156) ## 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.