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Job summary
An exciting fixed term opportunity has arisen for a motivated Senior Pharmacy Technician to join the dynamic pharmacy team at Royal Papworth Hospital. This role is ideal for a friendly, compassionate and enthusiastic individual who is passionate about delivering exceptional patient care and is eager to broaden their clinical knowledge and technical skills.
As a key member of our pharmacy service, you will work closely with our multidisciplinary teams across a variety of specialist wards, including surgery, cardiology, and thoracic medicine, as part of a structured rotation. Our department is committed to supporting your professional development, offering extensive training opportunities and exposure to all areas of the hospital.
In this role, you will contribute to the delivery of essential patient focused services such as TTO preparation, medicines reconciliation, patient consultations, and ensuring continuity of care throughout the patient journey. You will also play an important part in the training, supervision and development of junior staff and preregistration pharmacy professionals, helping to shape the next generation of the pharmacy workforce.
If you are driven, compassionate, and ready to take the next step in your pharmacy career, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Carry out a wide range of technical tasks including the preparation, dispensing, accuracy checking and safe supply of medicines to all patients across the hospital.
Provide clear, compassionate advice and counselling to patients and carers on the safe and effective use of medicines.
Obtain accurate drug histories from patients to support high quality medicines reconciliation and continuity of care.
Support the development of junior staff, including trainee and student pharmacy technicians, through supervision, coaching and competency based training.
Work closely with all members of the pharmacy team to deliver and continuously improve an efficient, patient centred pharmaceutical service under the guidance of senior pharmacy management.
Contribute to the Discharge Medicines Service, ensuring timely preparation, checking and communication of discharge medication to support safe transitions of care.
Respond professionally to helpline queries from patients, carers and healthcare professionals, providing accurate information and escalating when appropriate.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Details
- Date posted: 09 July 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 5
- Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 1 years
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 175-2627-PH1874
- Job locations: Royal Papworth Hospital, Papworth Road, Cambridge Bio Medical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AY, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- *Able to communicate clinical information to colleagues, patients and relatives on the phone, face to face and in written formats
- *Able to plan own and other team members workload
- *Able to work in a multi-disciplinary team and deal professionally with patients, relatives and colleagues
- *Aware of personal and professional limitations
- *Able to work calmly and efficiently under pressure
- *Able to respond to change and apply new developments without difficulty
Desirable
- *Previous hospital experience
- *Previous ward experience
Qualifications
Essential
- *Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- *BTEC and / or NVQ 3 in Pharmacy Services
- *Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician
- *Demonstrable numeracy and Literacy skills (GCSE level or equivalent
- *Medicines Reconciliation accreditation
Desirable
- *Accredited patient consultation skills
- *Accredited Medicines Management skills
Additional Criteria
Essential
- As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Advances keyboard skills (Experience of Microsoft products)
Desirable
- *Experience of data input and output for other systems (e.g patient record databases)
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This advert is for Senior Pharmacy Technician with Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Cambridge, East of England, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Pharmacy technician role. The advertised salary is £32,073 to £39,043 a year. The contract type is Fixed-Term. The application deadline is 20 Jul 2026.
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