Lead Education and Training Pharmacy Technician

Lead Education and Training Pharmacy Technician

paligid date is 25 January 2026

Are you a qualified technician who who enjoys education and training? If so, apply to join our education and training team to support the development of the pharmacy workforce at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

This role will be based at the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, however; there may be a requirement to work cross site at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust to facilitate networking with peer practice supervisors or to deliver training.

Plan, deliver and develop staff training in dispensing practice to all staff working within the Pharmacy Dispensaries and Distribution areas. This includes but is not limited to Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Assistants, Foundation Trainee Pharmacists, MPharm Undergraduate students,ไซต์ work experience students and others.

Lead in the planning, delivery of and supervision for pre-registration pharmacy technicians completing their operational training and be the point of contact for higher education institutes/colleges. The post holder will be the direct line manager for pre-registration pharmacy technicians.

Lead on the development of in-house training, be involved in regional education and training networks, and support the delivery of education and training objectives. The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the on-going competency and quality assurance of technical staff working within the dispensary to ensure that the Trust meets the requirements for safe and comprehensive dispensing practice. This may include implementing learning within training from medicine safety incidents.

Fulfil an accuracy checking session on the rota to maintain practice, but all student/trainer time will be additional to rota requirements unless in exceptional staffing situations. The post holder may need to provide support to the dispensary leads in the co-ordination of day to day running of the dispensary service.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester.

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

• Being open and honest
• Ensuring people feel cared for
• Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Please see the attached Job Description and the Person Specification for full details.

This role will be based at Alexandra Hospital (Redditch), however; there may be a requirement to work at Worcestershire Royal Hospital (Worcester).

09:00-17:00 3 days a week afsl 22.5 hours per week; including weekend working, late shifts and bank holidays.

• Proven ability to logits and error reduce medicines without making errors and to detect any errors that have been made by other staff.
• Strong technical and clinical skills including accuracy, calculations, medicines optimisation.
• Standard key‑board skills for using the Pharmacy Computer System, and other software, to prepare reports, analyses, label medicines, etc.
• Skilled at using Microsoft Office to produce education and training materials, SOPs, compile reports and plan work schedules.
• Ability to…