Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and proactive pharmacy technician to join the Cancer Pharmacy Team as a Band 5 Cancer Pharmacy Technician, at the Churchill Hospital and able to cover across sites.
The successful candidate will be highly motivated with excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills interested in developing leadership skills to support the Senior Pharmacy Technician. The Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team covering the Churchill and Horton Hospitals and includes pharmacy assistants, technicians, pharmacist and admin.
The candidate ideally will have either a hospital pharmacy background, or with community pharmacy experience, wishing to make a change into the hospital environment, for which appropriate training will be provided. You must have successfully achieved the relevant units of pharmacy services skills, ideally NVQ level 3 (QCF) or an equivalent GPhC accredited training programme.
Main duties of the job
You will be part of the Medicine Management, Ward Based team primarily working to deliver exceptional pharmacy services directly to patients on wards and day treatment areas. You will provide medicine reconciliation, patient counselling and representing the Cancer Pharmacy Technical Team.
Some of the key roles include:
- Delivery of Medicine Management service to adult cancer in-patients, out-patients, and day case patients
- Pharmacy service to Day Treatment Units in Headington and Banbury.
- Patient counselling
- Being part of the dispensing process for labelling, dispensing and checking - if qualified
- Responding to enquiries and requests from staff, patients and carers and ensure appropriate and accurate information is readily available and to escalation questions to other members of the pharmacy team where appropriate.
- Opportunity to develop CPD
- Opportunity for attendance to the Annual British Oncology Pharmacy Association Conference on a rotational basis
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Ward and Day Treatment Unit based role
- To be part of the Pharmacy team providing a near-patient medicines management service to clinical areas.
- To become an accredited Medicines Management Technician, or complete reaccreditation in order to transfer skills where appropriate.
- To become accredited to assess PODs according to the Trust’s criteria.
- To implement and maintain the POD scheme according to Trust policies.
- To train nursing, medical and pharmacy staff regarding the POD scheme.
- To become accredited to initiate the supply of non-stock items for one-stop/full pack dispensing.
- To become accredited to complete medicines reconciliation using a variety of available sources.
- To aid discharge planning in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist and ward staff.
- To work with the clinical pharmacist and ward staff to support medicines management at ward level.
- To become accredited to undertake patient counselling on selected patients e.g. warfarin initiation, inhaler counselling
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This advert is for Specialist Cancer Pharmacy Technician with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Oxford, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Pharmacy technician role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 per annum/ pro-rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 18 Jun 2026.
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