Pre Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician

You will gain experience in all aspects of pharmacy services including ward based clinical pharmacy where you will be interviewing patients about their medications on admission, working as part of the multidisciplinary team to ensure all medications are available for the patient, including the provision of leave & / or discharge medication. You will be trained in dispensing, medicines optimisation, stock management and procurement., We provide a friendly and sociable working environment and are looking for forward thinking, enthusiastic and highly motivated staff to train within our constantly developing team.This highly sort after training opportunity is an advanced apprenticeship, whereby apprenticeship funding rules apply. It is a full-time fixed term contract for 2 years.

It is an exciting time to train and to be a Pharmacy Technician as the role is constantly expanding and developing. If you love a challenge, love learning new things and working as part of an encouraging, hardworking, and supportive team, then this could certainly be the role for you.

You will need to be motivated and organised with a positive friendly can-do attitude. Be hardworking, reliable and willing to undertake work-based competencies as well as proactive within your studies.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves onensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world's first 'carbon net zero' national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our "Proud to be Green" engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme".

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

The salary for this training post is 70% of the top of a Band 4 pay band year 1 and then 75% of the top of a Band 4 pay band Year 2. (Annex 21/U). For existing NHS staff pay preservation will be available. (Annex 30). This can be discussed further at interview. The annual leave entitlement would be 27 annual days per year plus Bank Holidays.