# Specialist Pharmacy Technician ESM / E&T > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-pharmacy-technician-esm-eandt/6de6a675-2722-43bc-9a94-7f94d5ee57c2 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-pharmacy-technician-esm-eandt/6de6a675-2722-43bc-9a94-7f94d5ee57c2.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust - **Location:** Leicester Royal Infirmary - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacy technician - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32073.00 to £39043.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Late clinics, weekends, Bank holiday shift and on-call requirements) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-27T14:30:38.366Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8198998 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8198998?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview - Job Title: | Specialist Pharmacy Technician – MMT / Training team - Band: | 5 - Base: | You may be required to work in other designated locations of the Trust as well as your primary base. In particular, flexibility is required across the three main hospital sites (Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General Hospital and Glenfield Hospital). If your initial location is one of these sites excess travel reimbursement would not apply for a permanent or temporary change of base. - Reports to: | Principal Pharmacy Technician – Professional Development - Accountable to: | Chief Pharmacist ### Main duties of the job - To contribute to all aspects of pharmacy technician, assistants and support staff training and assessment. Ensuring sufficient skills, knowledge and competence to meet the professional and service standards required by General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) to ensure the delivery of high quality patient care. - In addition to also support the technical aspects of pharmacist training, ensuring sufficient skills, knowledge and competence to meet the professional and service standards required by General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) - Provide a range of clinical and ward services under the direction of the CMG Lead Pharmacist - To improve the quality of care of patients in a clinical area by the provision of an efficient medicines management service. To include drug history taking, facilitation of the use of patient’s own drugs, one stop dispensing, counselling patients about their medicines and discharge co-ordination - Support the system for monitoring training, appraisal, registration and CPD for all staff - Undertake dispensary based duties according to service need ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details. This is a generic job description some CMG’s may have specific requirements including: - attendance at pre-admission clinics, costing of drugs and regimens, additional record keeping of specialist drugs, setting up computerised systems to assist in this. Involvement in audit of practice, setting up and invoicing of clinical trials and reclaiming money for drugs subsidised for non-commercial clinical trials. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Standard operating procedures for dispensary / wards - Experience with patient’s own drugs or equivalent schemes - Continuous professional development - Basic understanding of clinical governance ### Experience **Essential** - Previous experience working as a Medicines Management Technician - Accredited checker - Previous Training experience **Desirable** - Evidence of involvement in service improvements - Line management experience - Appraisal and personal development planning knowledge - Experience of change management processes - Recruitment and selection ### Training and Qualification **Essential** - Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Society - BTEC or NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences **Desirable** - Training Qualification - Working towards or has a TAQA award, A1 NVQ assessor qualifications or equivalent ### Analytical and Judgement skills **Essential** - Problem solving ability - Logical reasoning and problem solving skills **Desirable** - Assessment methods - Training methodology - Good working knowledge of QCF 2/ QCF3 in pharmacy services or equivalent ### Equality, Diversity and Inclusion **Essential** - Able to demonstrate a commitment to and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs. - All staff are expected to engage in compassionate and inclusive leadership in the provision of high quality care and interactions with others ### Communication and relationship skills **Essential** - Good presentation skills - Teaching skills - Ability to work as a member of a team - Communicates clearly and simply both verbally and in writing - Computer literate - Coaching skills - Mentorship skills **Desirable** - Evidence of team building and leadership skills - Calm, clear thinking and makes effective decisions under pressure - Familiar with standard IT software ### Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours **Essential** - Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and Behaviours ## Documents - [jd/ps (pdf, 720.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10504610) - [employee benefits (pdf, 578.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2350) - [understanding your right to work in the uk (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2349) ## 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.