Job summary
The Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Part-time specialist Pharmacy Technician- ePMA to join our pharmacy team.

Are you an established Pharmacy Technician who wants to deliver high quality pharmaceutical care using an electronic prescribing and record system in a hospital team?

Are you interested in delivering quality improvement through digital technologies?

If so, come and join us at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

This exciting role will provide you with a range of experiences in ePMA system development, providing clinical decision support and medication safety features across various functionalities within the system.

You will also be part of the clinical services team, providing clinical care to a variety of medical, surgical and admissions wards.

Main duties of the job
A flavour of your day to day

Your week will consist of a mixture of clinical and digital activities. Within your digital role, you will work with the ePMA Meds Team and wider digital team to provide maintenance and improvements to the trusts electronic prescribing system.

Working clinically, you will deliver direct, patient-facing care ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines across the Trust.

Through the structured rotation plan you will be exposed to, and work within, a number of clinical areas, including:

• Medical wards
• Surgical wards
• Admissions wards
• Inpatient and outpatient dispensary

Key responsibilities

• Support dispensary services by checking stock and prescriptions, ordering medicines, dispensing, labelling, accuracy checking and counselling patients on their pharmaceutical needs.
• Support ward-based activities by undertaking stock control, medication supply, medicines reconciliation, expediting medicines for patient discharge and utilising close liaison with ward pharmacists, medical and nursing teams.
• Communication with patients to inform and coach them about their healthcare requirements.
• Support improvements in patient safety, staff support and health and wellbeing.

Essential qualifications and experience

• BTEC Pharm Science
• Accredited Final Checking qualification
• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
• Accredited counselling award
• A1 NVQ Assessor Award
• Managerial Qualification or willing to work towards them
• Registered with the GPhC
• Significant post qualification experience
• Experience leading a team
• Extensive recent experience of working in hospital
• Experience in managing technicians/assistants in a Pharmacy environment
• Experience in training of Pharmacy staff

Desirable

• Recognised IT qualification
• Experience of ePMA systems
• Experience of working in community pharmacy
• Previous experience with working with Cerner Millennium build tools
• Experience in database management
• Experience in procedure development

Date posted: 05 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year Per annum, pro rata
Contract: Fixed term, 12 months
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 179-8385722-C
Closing date: 19 November 2026

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check: 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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.