Clinical Pharmacy TechnicianNHS

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for you to have a role in direct patient care with opportunities to develop your clinical knowledge and skills.

We welcome applications from registered pharmacy technician colleagues working in all sectors of the profession. Prior experience working in mental health is not required as a comprehensive programme of training and clinical supervision will be provided.

We provide pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to all of our mental health, learning disability and neuro-rehabilitation inpatient areas, as well as to community and crisis teams. Our Pharmacy staff are highly regarded as valued members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role will be:

o Medicines reconciliation and review on admission.

o Providing support and information to patients and carers to assist with the management of their medicines.

o Optimising medicines, taking a holistic view of both mental and physical healthcare needs.

o Working in off-site community teams co-ordinating the process of medicines optimisation.

o Working in Clozapine clinics providing medicines management support, patient reviews and physical health monitoring including capillary blood sampling.

o Providing physical health and wellbeing advice to patients and staff.

o Discharge planning, liaison with patients, community teams and pharmacies.

Operational support to the dispensaries at SNH by performing regular accuracy checking slots.

Job description

Applicants must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date : 24th September 2026

Closing date : 11th October 2026

We welcome your application.

About us

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.

The North East of England and Cumbria boasts some of Britain's most beautiful scenery, coastline and national parks. It offers affordable house prices, good connectivity and train links with some major cities. It can offer a fantastic quality of life and working for our Trust promotes a great work life balance. We have bases in many beautiful places which can give our staff the opportunity to explore some of these surrounding areas.

The Trust also offers financial support for successful candidates who need to relocate.

As a department, we are committed to developing and supporting our staff to achieve the maximum they can from their career, whilst delivering outstanding patient centred care.

To find out more about our department and see what our team has to say you can watch our YouTube video https://youtu.be/JgVFF1jMsuY