Job overview

Pharmacy Technician (B4/5) Full-time, part-time, flexible working.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a well-established and experienced Pharmacy team at HPFT. We are a small, closely knit team based in Radlett (near Watford) working in a newly designed award-winning building (with free parking).

We are looking for one motivated Pharmacy Technicians who are keen to expand their experience and are interested in working in a mental health and learning disabilities setting. This is a band 4 or a band 5 position, 
depending on relevant experience and qualifications. As a band 4 – training will be provided to help you progress to a 
band 5 level.

Main duties of the job

The candidate(s) will be expected to:

• Support the dispensary in the ordering, receiving, dispensing and checking of medication supplies to all wards and 
departments throughout the Trust and external units
• Conduct medicines reconciliations
• Assess patients’ own drugs and transcribe for supply
• Counsel Patients on their medicines
• Participate in pharmacy related audits
The post holder(s) will be supported to obtain (if not already achieved) Accredited Checking Technician (ACT) status, 
and the University of East Anglia Medicines Management for Pharmacy Technicians qualification, and the Medicines 
Reconciliation qualification. 

Working for our organisation

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on…