# Senior Pharmacy Technician – Patient Service (Outpatient) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-pharmacy-technician-patient-service-outpatient/4cf0f5d1-8315-438e-bbd1-91c82c29147b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-pharmacy-technician-patient-service-outpatient/4cf0f5d1-8315-438e-bbd1-91c82c29147b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Barnet General Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacy technician - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £36,943 - £44,900 per annum inclusive of HCAS Prorata - **Contract type:** Permanent: 1 in 6 weekend working commitment (Either Sat or Sun) - **Employment type:** Part time - 15 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-21T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-07T15:31:50.211Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8267811 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Band 5 Senior Pharmacy Technician – Patient Services (Outpatient) This post is based on Barnet Hospital of the Royal Free Hospital Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and adaptable Pharmacy Technician with good communication and interpersonal skills to take on this challenging post. Your role will involve working with Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, and other health care professionals on providing Medicines Management services at ward level. The post holder will support the outpatient pharmacists to issue out medicines our patients as per trust's policies. You will support the day-to-day coordination of the outpatient pharmacy by checking medicines for outpatient prescriptions, patient counselling and co-ordination of the supply of medicines to our patients. You will be an Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT). You must have evidence of registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and have good post qualification experience working as a Pharmacy Technician within an NHS Hospital Pharmacy or a community pharmacy. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will support the co-ordination of the dispensary staff and workflow to provide a high quality and efficient patient orientated service. The post holder will be an accredited checking technician and will participate in the supply of medicines to inpatients, outpatients, wards and departments under the supervision of a pharmacist. The post holder will be responsible for and organise the day-to-day running of the Out-patient pharmacy. To monitor, develop and deliver the technical elements of the pharmaceutical service for patients in accordance with objectives set by the Chief Technician – Patient Services. This will include overseeing the ordering of medicines, ensuring safe, appropriate supply of stock to the wards and stock control throughout the dispensary. The post holder will support training and staff development by acting as a mentor/trainer for NVQ qualifications, in-house and external training/ accreditation. The post holder will line manage pharmacy support workers, and act as an Educational Supervisor and Practice Supervisor for trainee pharmacy professionals in the dispensary and on the wards. In conjunction with the Chief Technician – Patient Services, the senior technician will also implement and be involved in EDC and control drug room daily management, medicine management initiatives, ensure the cost-effective use of medicines and assist in the implementation of cost saving initiatives. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ### 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 ### Others **Essential** - Ability to work late duties, weekends, and Bank Holidays as per Rota. ### Values **Essential** - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values ### Experience **Essential** - Appraisals with feedback - Good working knowledge of IT Microsoft Packages such as Outlook, Word, Excel and other relevant programmes. **Desirable** - Significant post qualification hospital pharmacy experience - Previous assessable Managerial/Supervisory experience and experience in training ### Skills and Aptitudes **Essential** - Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills (with patients and staff of all levels) - Demonstrate ability to deal with conflict and complaints (with patients and staff of all levels). - Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills (with patients and staff of all levels). - Numerate - Ability to work independently and as a member of a team. - Accredited to perform a final accuracy check on clinically screened prescriptions and requisitions - Demonstrate proven ability to counsel and give advice to patients/carers on medications - Excellent understanding of computerised systems of stock control management. - Demonstrate ability to work towards set procedures. - Demonstrate proven ability to dispense accurately - Demonstrate ability to assess and train staff. - Demonstrate ability to prioritise and organise own workload and for staff managed. - Methodical methods of working and good decision making skills - Demonstrate ability to cope under pressure and handle several tasks at once - Demonstrate initiative particularly in relation to problem solving and ability to implement new initiatives/changes whilst maintaining departmental standards - Good negotiation skills - Demonstrate attention to detail - Demonstrate ability to meet and set deadlines ### Personal qualities and attributes **Essential** - Ability to work independently and as a member of a team. - Ability to work in a stressful environment - Well motivated - Effective organisational skills ### Education & Professional Qualifications **Essential** - BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences and NVQ Pharmacy services Level 3 or equivalent - Accredited Checking Technician (ACT) or willing to work toward this - Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician **Desirable** - NVQ A1 workplace assessor award or equivalent or working towards ## Documents - [fr (pdf, 144.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10594860) - [band 5 outpatient pharmacy technician jd (pdf, 680.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10585338) - [band 5 outpatient pharmacy technician ps (pdf, 200.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10583195) - [allied health professional - benefits, about rfl, shared commitments and governing objectives (pdf, 637.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2752) ## 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.