Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Mon - Fri 37.5 hours per week)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri)
- Job ref
- 335-A-1621-A
- Employer
- East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alfreton Resource Centre
- Town
- Alfreton
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Pharmacy Technician
NHS AfC: Band 5
We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
Job overview
As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be expected to provide assistance in the provision of pharmacy and medicine management services at EMAS.
The job purpose is:
To improve the safe and efficient supply of medicines to ambulance crews.
To communicate with other members of the Pharmacy and clinical team to facilitate a seamless service that does not impact 999 service delivery.
To assist in medication incident reporting, investigation and learning from medication incidents to promote the safe use of medication across the organisation.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job include:
- Oversee the production of medicine response bags and prepare paperwork ensuring accurate data entry.
- Support medicines management assistants to fill medicine response bags ensuring each item is accurately dispensed, and in the correct packaging, according to SOPs.
- Accurately record the batch numbers and expiry dates of medications according to Pharmaceutical guidelines.
- Complete endorsement of appropriate paperwork on completion of the medicines management process.
- Communicate any delays in supply to the appropriate person.
- Accurately check medicines delivered from suppliers into stock holding.
- Resolve queries relating to medications, referring when necessary to the Pharmacist.
- Prioritise any urgent requests, communicating the urgency to the medicines management team, to ensure the timely receipt of medications to ambulance crews.
Further duties are detailed in the job description attached.
Working for our organisation
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust provides emergency, urgent and non-emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
We have over 70 locations, 500+ vehicles, a range of specialist medical devices and over 2700 employees supported by 1500 volunteers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for more information and to see job description and main responsibilities of the role
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- pharmaceutical knowledge and experience
- Experience of working as part of a team
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Richard Needham
- Job title
- Head of operational support
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01773 522650
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