Overview
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a Rotational Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician within North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT), designed to support your professional growth and career progression. NELFT provides a wide range of community and mental health services to a large and diverse population across Essex and North East London, offering a rich and rewarding practice environment.
Main duties of the job
This post is offered as a Band 4 developmental role with a structured pathway to Band 5, enabling you to progress once agreed competencies are achieved within a defined timeframe. For candidates who already meet the required competencies, appointment at Band 5 will be considered. Salary for band 4 £28,392-£31,157 per annum. Salary for band 5 £32,073-£39,043 per annum.
In this dynamic role, you will play a vital part in delivering safe, effective, and patient-centred medicines optimisation services across a variety of settings. Through a structured rotational programme spanning inpatient wards, community teams, and specialist services, you will develop clinical, technical, and leadership skills. This role offers a unique platform to build expertise while contributing meaningfully to high-quality pharmaceutical care within both mental health and community services, in line with the Trusts values.
About us
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the job
List the key responsibilities and tasks the post holder will be expected to:
- Deliver ward-based and community clinical pharmacy technician services, ensuring safe, accurate, and timely medicines management.
- Rotate across inpatient units, Home Treatment Teams, dispensary services, and offsite community teams.
- Lead on Medicines Reconciliation, patient own drugs assessments, discharge planning, and continuity of care.
- Provide professional dispensing and final accuracy checks in line with GPhC standards and local and Trust policies.
- Work collaboratively with pharmacists, healthcare professionals, patients, and carers to optimise treatment outcomes.
- Progressively accept greater clinical responsibility as competencies are achieved within the Band 4–5 progression framework.
- Maintain accurate records and ensure compliance with Trust Policies.
- Participate in team meetings and contribute to service improvement initiatives.
Main responsibilities
The post holder will operate as a registered pharmacy technician who is professionally and legally accountable for their practice. You will support the provision of the clinical pharmacy service, ensuring the effective supply, storage, and safe use of medicines across all allocated areas. Responsibilities include medicines reconciliation, counselling patients and carers, monitoring high-risk medicines (including Clozapine services), managing stock control processes, minimising medicines wastage, and supporting cold chain management.
The role involves close liaison and working as an integrated member of the multidisciplinary teams to ensure seamless transfers of care between inpatient and community services. The post holder will supervise and support junior staff, trainees, and apprentices, contribute to audit and quality improvement activity, and participate in training, education, and service development initiatives. Effective communication, accurate documentation, and adherence to governance, confidentiality, and Trust policies are essential components of the role.
What This Role Offers – Why Join Us?
Personal Growth and Career Progression This role offers a clear and supported progression pathway from Band 4 to Band 5, with access to structured competency frameworks, mentorship, supervision, and continuous professional development opportunities.
Supportive and Inclusive Culture The Trust actively supports a wide range of staff networks, promoting inclusion, well-being, and a sense of belonging across the workforce.
Innovation and Service Development The pharmacy team is forward-thinking and engaged in medicines optimisation, digital systems, and service improvement, offering opportunities to contribute ideas and shape future practice.
Co-production, where your ideas and collaboration with patients and colleagues help shape better, more person-centred care.
Flexible Working and Work–Life Balance The team is open to flexible working arrangements where service needs allow, supporting work–life balance and staff wellbeing.
Starting with NELFT NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will also have the opportunity to meet the executive team and senior managers, and to attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High Cost Area Supplement – Outer London (B&D, Redbridge, Havering and Waltham Forest, CEME) This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 p.a. pro rata for part-time).
Working for Us Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London and Essex. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives, along with staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest significantly in your development because when you feel valued and supported, we can deliver the highest quality care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and hold a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Through our staff networks and training opportunities, we strive to foster a just and compassionate culture at NELFT.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Recognised pharmacy qualification relevant to the role
Experience
- Effective communication, accurate documentation, and adherence to governance, confidentiality, and Trust policies are essential components of the role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
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