Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician - Specialist Medicine

Job overview

Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician - Specialist Medicine

Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 6

Salary: £38,682 - £46,580 per annum/pro rata

Interview Date: Tuesday 3rd March 2026

We are recruiting for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen and for a  forward-thinking Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician with extensive clinical knowledge and experience to join our specialist medicine team. Candidates should be highly motivated, a team player and able work under pressure. This is a unique opportunity for a pharmacy technician who is clinically experienced and has excellent leadership skills.

In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance  patient outcomes through medicines optimisation to  ensure patient safety, and contribute to the development of innovative pharmacy services within  care group.

This is an innovative role to utilise and further develop skills in leadership, team management and drive improvement and service delivery to support the clinical strategy for the department and trust.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership to clinical pharmacy technicians, ensuring effective ward cover and service delivery.

To be responsible for medicines management in their area of speciality, working with relevant pharmacy, medical and nursing staff to deliver high quality pharmacy services to the clinical area

To provide an advanced clinical pharmacy technician service to their speciality

Be a leading clinical pharmacy technician expert in a defined area of speciality agreed with the lead clinical technician and lead clinical pharmacist for the area, collaboratively developing protocols and delivering the service (e.g. antimicrobial prescription review or Medical Infusion Suite (MIS) prescriptions.

Line manage and contribute to the education and training of pharmacy staff, being an educational and practice supervisor where required.

Proactively provide patient-facing services, including the counselling of patients.

To work with the multidisciplinary team to educate, train and develop materials to support medicines governance, optimisation, formulary, safety and pathways.

Review and present medicines use and expenditure data to drive change.

To identify and implement efficiencies in operational processes and medicines use to reduce medicines expenditure and system wastage.

Contribute to the department and Trust’s audit and research agenda.