Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Pharmacy Technician
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Pharmacy Technician
Pharmacy Technician Vacancy – Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and committed Pharmacy Technician to provide and develop the clinical pharmacy service within Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust.
If you're seeking an innovative clinical role at the forefront of delivering patient-tailored care, both in inpatient and community settings, with exciting professional development opportunities and a good work-life balance, then this could be the right role for you.
The Pharmacy Technician will join our established and respected team at St Martin’s Hospital (Canterbury). We work closely in both inpatient and community settings and are passionate about ensuring medicines safety remains at the heart of patient care.
About the Team & Opportunities
Our pharmacy team ensures comprehensive support is provided through:
- Personal growth and training, including opportunities to achieve accredited medicine management qualifications and participate in NHS leadership courses
- Collaborative working with a multidisciplinary team, focusing on patient-centred medicine management
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Responsibilities
Key aspects of the role include delivering a comprehensive medicine management service across inpatient and community settings:
Essential Duties
- Medicines reconciliation on admission
- Discharge facilitation
- Patient counselling
- Medicines supply
- Participation in pharmacy services within clozapine and depot clinics in the locality
Extended Roles & Additional Accomplishments
- Contributing to audit and teaching
- Supporting coordination and supply of clozapine to patients in the community, including near-patient testing at clozapine monitoring clinics
Requirements
The successful applicant must:
- Hold a full, valid UK driving licence
- Have access to a car/vehicle for business use (unless implementing a valid disability adjustment under the Equality Act 2010)
About Us – Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
We are part of the NHS, rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of patients across Kent and Medway.
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Our services include:
- Support for children, young people, and adults with various mental health needs
- Specialist services such as all-age eating disorder care and neurodevelopmental assessments (e.g., autism, ADHD)
Our vision is to ensure communities not only live with mental illness but live well by making care joined-up, accessible, and effective.
Our Guiding Values:
- Caring
- Inclusive
- Curious
- Confident
If you share our commitment to better mental health care, we’d love to have you join us as part of a team that works well together.
Next Steps
- For more details or to schedule an informal visit, contact:
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Name: Samantha Burdge
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Job Title: Lead Pharmacy Technician
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Email: sburdge@nhs.net
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Telephone: 07833625000
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Alternatively, email Elaine Mok (Lead Clinical Pharmacist):
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Telephone: 07748180488
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Further information can also be found on our Canterbury site – [see below highlights link].
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