Job summary
Join a world-leading team delivering compassionate, excellent, and collaborative care at Royal Papworth Hospital.
We are seeking a friendly, compassionate, and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician who shares our passion for making a meaningful difference to patients' lives. This is an exciting opportunity to work in one of the UK's leading cardiothoracic hospitals, where every team member plays a vital role in delivering world-class, patient-centred care.
In this role, you'll collaborate closely with our dynamic pharmacy and multidisciplinary teams across the hospital, providing direct patient care on the wards and contributing to seamless, safe, and effective medicines management. Your work will directly support our mission to deliver compassionate care with excellence, enhancing patient outcomes through collaborative practice.
Main duties of the job
At Royal Papworth Hospital, we are committed to your professional development. You'll benefit from a supportive learning environment with opportunities to rotate through specialist areas including surgery, cardiology, thoracic medicine, and our dispensary, broadening your skills and experience. You'll play an integral role in essential services such as discharge medicine preparation, medicines reconciliation, patient consultations, and continuous service improvement. Depending on your experience, you may also take on responsibilities in supervising and mentoring junior staff and pre-registration pharmacy professionals, nurturing the next generation of pharmacy talent.
We pride ourselves on fostering a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative workplace, where everyone's contributions are valued and respected. We believe that embracing diversity and working together strengthens our ability to deliver personalised, compassionate care of the highest standard.
Join us at Royal Papworth Hospital and take the next step in your pharmacy career, as part of a team dedicated to innovation, excellence, and compassionate collaboration for every patient, every day.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- BTEC and / or NVQ 3 in Pharmacy Services
- Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician
- Demonstrable numeracy and Literacy skills (GCSE level or equivalent)
- Medicines Reconciliation accreditation
Desirable
- Accredited patient consultation skills
- Accredited Medicines Management skills
Experience
Essential
- Able to communicate clinical information to colleagues, patients and relatives on the phone, face to face and in written formats
- Able to plan own and other team members workload
- Able to work in a multi-disciplinary team and deal professionally with patients, relatives and colleagues
- Aware of personal and professional limitations
- Able to work calmly and efficiently under pressure
- Able to respond to change and apply new developments without difficulty
Desirable
- Previous hospital experience
- Previous ward experience
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Advances keyboard skills (Experience of Microsoft products)
- Ability to apply the Trust's values and associated behaviour standard at all times
Desirable
- Experience of data input and output for other systems (e.g patient record databases)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- BTEC and / or NVQ 3 in Pharmacy Services
- Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician
- Demonstrable numeracy and Literacy skills (GCSE level or equivalent)
- Medicines Reconciliation accreditation
Desirable
- Accredited patient consultation skills
- Accredited Medicines Management skills
Experience
Essential
- Able to communicate clinical information to colleagues, patients and relatives on the phone, face to face and in written formats
- Able to plan own and other team members workload
- Able to work in a multi-disciplinary team and deal professionally with patients, relatives and colleagues
- Aware of personal and professional limitations
- Able to work calmly and efficiently under pressure
- Able to respond to change and apply new developments without difficulty
Desirable
- Previous hospital experience
- Previous ward experience
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Advances keyboard skills (Experience of Microsoft products)
- Ability to apply the Trust's values and associated behaviour standard at all times
Desirable
- Experience of data input and output for other systems (e.g patient record databases)
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
