Pharmacy Technician - Production Services

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC:
Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job
-CSTO-8217066

Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton in Ashfield Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum. Annex 21 agreement Salary period Yearly Closing 22/10/2026 23:59

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As such, we particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, or Disabled. We believe that a diverse team better represents the communities we serve and brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to our work.

Pharmacy Production Technician – Band 4 to Band 5 Progression Post

We are pleased to offer an exciting development opportunity within the Pharmacy Production Unit for a Pharmacy Production Technician to progress from Band 4 to Band 5 under Annex 21.

This post provides an opportunity for an experienced and motivated Pharmacy or Science Manufacturing Technician to develop their knowledge, skills and leadership capabilities across the Pharmacy Production service, including Aseptic Services, Pre-packing and Quality Control.

The successful candidate will work towards achieving the competencies and experience required to progress to a Band 5 Pharmacy Production Technician.

Key responsibilities:

• Support the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality pharmacy production services.
• Develop and maintain technical competencies across relevant production areas.
• Work in accordance with SOPs, GMP requirements, quality standards and departmental procedures.
• Support the training and development of colleagues and contribute to a positive team environment.
• Assist with quality management, audits, investigations and continuous improvement activities.
• Develop greater responsibility for day-to-day operational activities within the Production Unit

Progression from Band 4 to Band 5 will be subject to successful completion of the required competencies, training and assessment in line with the agreed Annex 21 development framework.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other.

We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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