Pharmacy Homecare Lead Technician: 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 5 months. This maternity cover post will provide direction and advice for Homecare team members of staff on the two hospital sites (CIC and WCH) to ensure operational continuity for the team, with the support of the Homecare Pharmacists.

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.

The job includes assisting the wider Pharmacy Department with Dispensary Accuracy checking, working on a Saturday, and other duties as required.

Main duties of the job

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

Assisting the Homecare Pharmacists to manage Homecare provider accounts, by arranging service meetings, keeping contact matrices up to date, facilitating new Service level agreements and Regional Homecare Framework call offs.

Homecare Prescription and Registration paperwork maintenance, and management of team electronic databases, including adding and maintaining Homecare products to the Pharmacy system.

Monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPI)and Workload figures to complete KPI and patient number monthly figures to enable the Team to keep commissioners and Senior Pharmacy staff appraised of Homecare workload and performance.

Supervising invoice management, including trouble-shooting query invoices and managing price updates and contract changes.

Line management of Homecare team members, including Health and Wellbeing and 1:1 meetings.

Maintaining Standard Operating Procedures.

Accuracy Checking rota and Weekend Working rota working.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • BTec in Pharamceutical Services or equivalent
  • NVQ3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent
  • Registration with GPhC
  • Final Accuracy Checking, or aseptic accuracy checking qualification, equivalent to NVQ4

Experience

Essential

  • Relevant post-registration employment, including recent experience of provision of medicines via homecare
  • Accuracy checking experience
  • Presenting data in a variety of formats
  • Supervisory experience
  • Managing change
  • Supervising and training staff

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential

  • Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to make judgements based on incomplete or conflicting data
  • Ability to manage time, people and resources
  • Able to lead a team and motivate others
  • Able to organise and prioritise workload
  • 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

Desirable

  • IT skills

Knowledge

Essential

  • Continuing professional development with portfolio
  • Broad technical and pharmaceutical knowledge
  • GCP/GMP
  • Current issues within pharmacy and the NHS
  • Understanding of commissioning, budgets and tariff income
  • Service Level Agreements

Desirable

  • Spreadsheet and database packages

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: 16 November 2026

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