Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Able to fulfil the requirements for bank holidays and weekend working and work flexibly according to service needs/demands)
- Job ref
- 229-CS-8339504
- Employer
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hereford County Hospital
- Town
- Hereford
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacy Technician - Training & Development
Band 6
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Job overview
Main duties of the job
- Training and Development
- To work with department leads to establish appropriate rotas in order to facilitate the rotation of students through the department
- To complete the registration of new students to their training providers
- To support and assess NVQ 2 and NVQ 3 students training through Buttercups (department wide)
- To carry out end of period reviews and assessments for NVQ2 and NVQ3 students training through Buttercups
- To support the BMET (or other training provider) students and liaise with the provider where necessary
- Complete quarterly LDA Census updates for the Trust
- Attend regional Training and Education meetings (West Midlands)
- Attend and support careers evenings and events and promote Pharmacy as a career
- To co-ordinate and facilitate ACT training for the department
- To co-ordinate and facilitate CD training and the West Midlands Dispensing Accuracy Assessment for the department and as a mentor for those carrying out the assessments
- Take referrals from department leads with regards to individuals who require tailored one-to-one support; support the individuals and their ongoing progression
- To be responsible for apprentice recruitment and support for the department
- To manage and facilitate requests for work experience
- To work with the MSO to facilitate learning from mistakes
- To deliver Medicines Optimisation training when necessary
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GPhC Registration as Pharmacy Technician
- Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician
- Management or education post registration qualification (or equivalent experience in a hospital setting)
Skills
Essential criteria
- IT Literate in routine Microsoft applications ( Word, PowerPoint, Excel etc)
- Knowledge and understanding of basic management principles including team management and motivation
- Knowledge and skills to mentor and develop staff
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in Acute Hospital Pharmacy
- Experience of carrying out performance reviews and development of staff including training.
- Development and consistent delivery of Key Performance Indicators for a service
- Involvement/Leadership in project delivery
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kate Leonardo
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01432 364424
- Additional information
ext: 2211
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