Pharmacy Technician Higher Level – Homecare Services: Sponsorship Available

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

We are looking for a motivated individual to join the Pharmacy Homecare Team at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation (NCIC) Trust for a period of 6 months. This maternity cover post will be part of the Homecare team for the Trust. Full training will be given. The Homecare team provides services to a variety of clinical teams in the Trust to ensure the patients get an excellent quality and safe Homecare medicines delivery, working with a large number of Homecare providers across the UK. Homecare ensures the Trust and commissioners use best value services and work towards using cost-effective treatments and services as soon as they become available.

Main duties of the job

A Homecare Technician works as part of a team, and the main duties are:

Work primarily with out-patient clinics, ensuring that the principles in the DH Patient Charter for Homecare Services are upheld.

Obtain consent from patients identified for homecare services, ensuring registration forms are completed and explaining homecare processes to patients. Counsel patients in relation to their medicines, particularly those medicines delivered via homecare processes.

Act as a first point of contact for patients with queries and complaints about homecare services.

Process and manage prescriptions for the Homecare service under Trust procedures.

Work with medical staff and specialist nurses within designated clinical areas, identifying opportunities for increased used of homecare. Liaise between clinics and pharmacy to ensure best homecare outcomes are achieved for patients.

Assist in the management of invoice queries and processing.

Assist in the monitoring of key performance indicators to track the performance of the Homecare service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • BTec in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent
  • NVQ3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent
  • Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
  • Further pharmacy-specific qualifications to NVQ Level 4, or acknowledged equivalent experience.

Desirable

  • Accuracy Checking certificate.
  • Medicines Management Certificate.

Experience

Essential

  • Relevant post-registration employment, including recent experience of provision of medicines via homecare
  • Patient counselling
  • Presenting data in a variety of formats

Desirable

  • Medicines management.
  • Obtaining consent.
  • Accuracy checking experience.
  • Supervisory experience.
  • Managing change.
  • Supervising and training staff.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Continuing professional development with portfolio.
  • Broad technical and pharmaceutical knowledge. GCP/GMP
  • Current issues within pharmacy and the NHS.
  • IT skills – word processing, spreadsheets
  • Ascribe Patient Medication Records and eMM

Desirable

  • Patient specific ordering.
  • Understanding of commissioning, budgets and tariff income.
  • Service Level Agreements.

Skills

Essential

  • Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to make judgements based on incomplete or conflicting data.
  • Ability to manage time, people and resources.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Able to work accurately to deadlines.
  • Ability to identify and implement best practice. Ability to identify and manage risk.
  • Empathetic
  • Able to communicate complex information to patients and carers, where subject matter may be sensitive and where there may be barriers to understanding
  • Able to organise and prioritise workload.

Desirable

  • Able to lead a team and motivate others.

Other Requirements

Essential

  • Commitment to continuing professional development.
  • Able to travel independently between sites.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 31 August 2026

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