Senior Pharmacy Technician (Primary Care): Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 32,073 to 39,043 £ / Year

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Working for NPC North Tyneside Neighbourhood practices, you will be working between 49 Marine Avenue, Park Parade, Nelson and Spring Terrace surgeries. The Senior Pharmacy Technician will co-ordinate the medicine hub activities to the extent necessary to ensure the development and maintenance of a high standard of patient care, sound teamwork and close co-operation with the clinical and managerial team.

The post holder will work under the management of the Clinical Pharmacy Service to deliver a comprehensive medicines management in a primary care setting to ensure a safe and efficient service is maintained, delivering a range of medicines management activities including medicines reconciliation and repeat prescription requests.

Pharmacy staff in all sectors and other healthcare professionals will ensure a patient orientated medicines management service is provided, conducting medicines reviews for patients. To work closely with the Clinical Pharmacist to adopt a team approach to medicines management. To work with the Clinical Pharmacist to develop and undertake medicines management audits, to support discussion within the practice and agree subsequent actions.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties would entail:

  • Work alongside other staff and develop their skills to prioritise workload. May supervise medicines technicians, Pharmacy technicians, student pharmacy technicians and pre-registration pharmacists.
  • Interpret prescriptions for drug problems such as drug dosage, form and administration. Considers legality, clarity and risk associated with prescribed medicines and prescriptions and make basic interventions to ensure medicines are safe for patients and be able to refer as appropriate to medicines management technician or pharmacist.
  • Interpret basic medicine supply information and consider appropriate solutions ensure continuation of supply, referring as appropriate. Assess situations concerning the availability of prescribed medicines and refer non-standard prescriptions to relevant authority.
  • Assist and coach practice staff in the collation and analysis of data for reviews/ audits as required improving medicines management within the practice.
  • Support embedded systems to ensure governance and operational issues are reviewed, discussed weekly with the team and escalated as required.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Professional Registration

Essential

  • BTEC in pharmaceutical science or NVQ Level 3 supported by appropriate underpinning knowledge e.g. national certificate in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent qualification, plus specialist training and experience equivalent to degree level (or equivalent level of knowledge and / or experience)
  • Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • To hold CPPE PCPEP qualification. If not held will need to be complete within 24 months.

Desirable

  • An appropriate accredited technician checking qualification.
  • Evidence of relevant continuing professional development.

Experience and knowledge

Essential

  • Experience of working in primary care, or with primary care teams
  • Previous medicines management experience
  • Audit experience
  • Experience of co-ordinating and prioritising daily workloads

Desirable

  • Previous relevant experience working in Pharmacy
  • Previous experience of managing/supervising staff
  • Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
  • Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Other requirements

Essential

  • It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

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: 4 October 2026

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