Senior Medicines Management Technician | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

Do you want to put your clinical knowledge to greater use? Are you a registered Pharmacy Technician looking for a more meaningful role, where you can make a real difference to patients and collaborate closely with other healthcare professionals? If so, like many others, you may be seeking a rewarding, clinically focused career in hospital pharmacy. At Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust, we share this vision and are passionate about supporting technicians who are ready to join us on this exciting journey.

In this role, you will play a key part in delivering a patient‑centred ward pharmacy service. You will support pharmacists with drug history taking to ensure medicines reconciliation is completed within 24 hours of admission.

This opportunity offers the chance to build on your existing clinical experience. We are fully committed to your training and development, enabling you to maximise your contribution to patient care, and we will actively support you as you grow in the role.

As a GDE exemplar site, we are a digitally advanced Trust. We have had electronic prescribing in place since 2015, an Automated Dispensing System on each site, more than 200 electronic discharge referrals to community pharmacies each month, and a wide range of other innovative digital solutions. We offer excellent support for technicians at all levels and remain dedicated to your personal and professional development.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics‑led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide medicines management services to adult wards, including compiling accurate medication histories and completing medicines reconciliation.
• Undertake day‑to‑day supervision of junior pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants within the team.
• Deliver training on pharmacy procedures, stock control, and electronic prescribing systems, including signing off training logs for all staff.
• Offer straightforward advice on pharmaceutical products and supply.
• Work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals at ward level.
• Act as a professional role model for junior pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants, demonstrating integrity, ownership, and leadership in all aspects of the role.
• Contribute to the wider pharmacy service, including dispensing and issuing prescriptions in both the satellite and main dispensaries, which will also involve accredited checking of prescriptions.

Additional Duties

• Provide a medicines management service at ward level, including ensuring the safe storage of medicines and managing medicine returns.
• Obtain accurate patient medication histories using all available sources—such as patients’ own medicines and the Summary Care Record—in line with departmental processes and SOPs, ensuring patient consent is obtained. This includes entering the patient’s admission medication history onto the electronic prescribing system (ePMA).
• Carry out straightforward Level 2 medicines reconciliation in accordance with relevant policies and SOPs.
• Communicate medicine‑related information clearly, both verbally and in writing, to patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals. This includes counselling and demonstrating the correct use of inhalers and other medical devices.

Qualifications

You must be a registered Pharmacy Technician.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post.

Travel between hospital sites may be required.

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