About this role
Job summary
Join an Award-Winning Team
Are you a registered pharmacy technician ready to specialise in mental health pharmacy?
Our pharmacy service was namedAPTUK Pharmacy Technician Team of the Year 2025,recognised nationally for innovation, collaboration, and advancing pharmacy technician practice in mental health.
Weare recruiting a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our East Sussex team, primarily based at the Department of Psychiatry, with responsibilities extending to inpatient wards, Havens, and some community services across East Sussex.
Your focus will be on delivering a safe and effective medicines optimisation service to the Eastbourne Haven, helping patients get the best outcomes from their medicines. You'll work closely with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring healthcare staff are confident and supported in safe, effective, and cost-conscious medicines use.
Main duties of the job
Provide clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services across inpatient wards, Havens, and community settings inEast Sussex. Advise clinicians, nursing staff, and patients on safe, effective, and cost-conscious medicines use. Support clozapine clinics, including point-of-care testing and overdue bloods monitoring. Take part in discharge planning, ensuring safe transition of care into the community. Lead and contribute to audits, medicines safety initiatives, and service development projects. Work closely with pharmacy colleagues acrossEast Sussex and the wider Trust to deliver high-quality, patient-centred services. Provide medicines reconciliation for patients in the Eastbourne Haven Unit We're excited to be bringing a new medicines supply service in-house later in 2026--an important step that creates fresh opportunities for innovation, skill development, and career progression across our team. This Pharmacy Hub will be situated at our Swandean site in Worthing. This change will also strengthen how we support our trainee pharmacy professionals on their career journeys. As we grow our dispensary function, all staff will play a key role in supporting the implementation and delivery of this service while we recruit into new dispensary roles, helping to shape a dynamic and collaborative working environment.
About us
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health, learning disability, and neurodevelopmental services across Sussex.
Our Pharmacy Service plays a key role in improving patient safety, outcomes, and experience through medicines optimisation. We are committed to staff development and provide opportunities for learning, supervision, and professional growth within a friendly and supportive team.
Job description Job responsibilities
The post holder will work as an integral member of the Pharmacy Team, providing a highquality pharmacy technician service to support safe and effective use of medicines within mental health services, with a primary focus on Eastbourne Haven urgent care services.
Key responsibilities include undertaking medicines reconciliation for individuals presenting in crisis, liaising with service users, carers, GP practices, community pharmacies, and clinical teams to confirm accurate medication histories and support safe prescribing decisions. The post holder will typically support medicines reconciliation for approximately 14 patients per day at Eastbourne Haven.
The role includes supporting medicines optimisation, counselling service users on their medicines where appropriate, and contributing to safe onward care planning. The post holder will support safe transitions of care, escalate medicinesrelated concerns to pharmacists, and work in line with Trust policies, procedures, and medicines governance requirements.
The post holder will work collaboratively with pharmacists, nurses, prescribers, and the wider multidisciplinary team to support urgent care flow and highquality crisis response. They will contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement activity as required, and support the training and supervision of pharmacy staff where appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services, BTEC Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with General Pharmaceutical Council with GPhC (with no restrictions). Completed or willing to undertake the Medicines Management Accreditation Scheme. Completed or willing to undertake the Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) course
Knowledge/Experience Essential
Experience working in a hospital or mental health pharmacy setting. Knowledge of medicines optimisation and medicines management principles. Experience handling straightforward Medicines Information queries
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.
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UK Registration
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Employer details Employer name Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address Department of Psychiatry, Eastbourne. East Sussex (some cover may be required at outlying units and/or Hastings)
Eastbourne
BN21 2UD
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sussexpartnership.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)