Medicines Management Technician; Community Services; Internal

Role Summary

The successful candidates will provide a medicines management service across the community which includes:

• Provide a patient-focused medicines management pharmacy technician service to community locations to include inpatient and outpatient units, wards and patients’ usual place of residence.
• Be responsible for the provision of a high-quality patient focused medicines management service to patients of the Trust.
• Ensure efficient transfer of medicines between care settings to include wards, departments and patients’ usual place of residence.
• Support transfer of information in relation to medicines across all interfaces liaising with health and social care professionals in a variety of settings.
• Support systems that facilitate medication administration in the community home setting, including production of patient self-medication resources and medicines administration record (MAR) charts.
• Support the development and delivery of staff medicines management training packages.
• Report and investigate medicines-related incidents using the Trust approved incident reporting system within scope of practice.
• Work collaboratively with health and social care professionals to provide specialist pharmaceutical advice to enable best outcomes for patients.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings as appropriate.
• Encourage safe and effective systems for ordering, receiving, storing, administering and returning medicines in community settings and for individual patients.
• Provide patients/carers with relevant medicines education.
• Work as part of the wider Community Services Pharmacy Team to implement team goals and objectives, audit and safety monitoring, and development of team direction.

An experienced or newly qualified pharmacy technician with a focus on community medicine management will join the well‑established Community Services Pharmacy Team based in Sidmouth Hospital. The role involves medicines optimisation services for inpatients and patients in their usual place of residence, including medicines reconciliation, clinical prioritisation for pharmacist review, support for discharge medications and providing medicines-related advice to professionals and patients to help solve issues with adherence and long‑term condition management.

Working within multidisciplinary teams—including prescribers, nurses, therapists and social care staff—the candidate will help patients manage medicines safely and independently as part of a coordinated care team delivering a high-quality, person-centred service.

The role requires good organisational and communication skills, attention to detail, problem-solving ability and the capacity to prioritise one’s workload. Clinical in‑house training on the electronic prescribing and medical record system, EPIC, will be provided.

Travel to community hospital sites and patients’ homes is required.

As an inclusive employer, the Royal Devon values diversity and is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, cultures and abilities.

Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and ‘At Risk’ status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.

In addition to the salary, the successful candidate will benefit from:

• National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
• Salary sacrifice options including onsite nursery access and car lease schemes.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• NHS Pension scheme.

• Salary Band 5: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum per rata
• Frequency Annual
• Vacancy Reference
• Contract Type Permanent
• Closing Date 5 July, 2026
• Job Category Pharmacy
• Staff Group Additional Professional Scientific and Technical