Medicines Safety Technician

Medicines Safety Technician

The closing date is 04 February 2026

We are seeking an enthusiastic Pharmacist Technician with a keen interest in mental health and medicines safety to join our team. If you are looking for a new challenge in a supportive, enthusiastic and caring environment in a lovely part of Sheffield, SHPU pharmacy are looking to recruit well‑motivated, forward‑thinking professionals.

You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a large multi‑disciplinary team. You will need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and committed to continuous professional development.

You will need to hold a recognised Pharmacy Technician qualification (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences, NVQ level 3 or equivalent) and be a technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. We are recruiting Pharmacy Technicians ideally with hospital experience, but welcome applications from community technicians.

You will also develop your skills through the department's activities including incident investigations, medicines information, dispensary services and providing teaching for professionals and service users. As a team we are committed to developing our staff and service and have a history of internal promotion.

• Work alongside the Medicines Safety Officer (MSO) to support the Trust with the safe use of medicines.
• Promote best practice and support changes to medicine guidelines within the Trust.
• Contribute to an efficient and accurate pharmacy service to SHPU NHS Trust.
• Support the dispensary manager with the daily management of the dispensary.
• Be confident and able to work with service users, carers, and healthcare professionals internally and other organisations to ensure the service users are safe with their medicines.
• Under the direction of the Chief Pharmacist, Deputy Chief Pharmacist and the Senior Pharmacy Technician perform whatever duties are reasonably necessary to achieve the job purpose and overall safe provision of pharmacy services throughout the trust.
• Perform a broad outline of tasks to achieve key result areas (not a fixed list).

We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

What makes our Trust such a special place to work? It’s all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from diverse backgrounds and bring expertise and stories.

It’s important that you feel supported, that your colleagues are passionate and that your health and wellbeing are taken care of.

If you’re interested in developing your career, you’ll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research.

We are proud of the difference we make to people’s lives each and every day and if that’s something you’d like to be part of, we would love to have you with us.

Please see the main Job description for further details.

It will mainly cover:

• Promote Medicines Safety throughout the Trust
• Dispensary

• ACT
• Dispensary knowledge
• MMT
• EPMA experience
  
  Experience of medicines safety investigating
• Describes a safety measures implementation
• 2 years experience

• Shows management or leadership skills
• Interest in mental health
• Problem solving
• Has a leadership qualification
• Multiple disciplinary working / working with other services

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.