Specialist Pharmacy Technician – Healthcare at Home & Community

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust (Cambridge)

Job summary

Are you an experienced Pharmacy Technician looking for your next challenge within an Outstanding CQC rated Community Trust?

Do you have a passion for delivering high-quality pharmaceutical care to patients with long-term conditions, frailty, and complex medication needs? If so, we’d love to hear from you.

We are seeking a Band 6 Specialist Pharmacy Technician to provide patient-centred medicines optimisation and management across Community Services in Luton and Bedfordshire. This role focuses on supporting patients with long term conditions, frailty, and complex polypharmacy to achieve the best possible outcomes from their medicines.

You will have:

  1. Current GPhC registration as a Pharmacy Technician
  2. Significant experience in medicines management, with an understanding of its application in community settings
  3. Broad pharmaceutical knowledge
  4. Knowledge of pharmacy legislation and medicines-related regulations
  5. Strong clinical reasoning and decision-making skills

What We Offer:

  1. Flexible working opportunities
  2. Excellent NHS and Trust-specific benefits
  3. A supportive, innovative Trust rated highly by both the CQC and our staff
  4. Opportunities to influence and shape service development
  5. Ongoing support for professional and career development

Apply today and join EEC in making a difference to patients across our communities.

‘Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 06/07/2026’

Main duties of the job

Job Purpose

To improve patient outcomes through safe and effective use of medicines, reducing medicines-related harm and avoidable admissions, and supporting reduction in medicines waste.

To work autonomously with a defined caseload, undertaking home visits, discussing medicines with patients during clinic visits, and supporting the multidisciplinary team (MDT), escalating complex issues appropriately to the Specialist Pharmacist – Healthcare at Home or Service Lead as appropriate.

To provide structured support within specialist clinics such as tuberculosis (TB) services, supporting directly observed therapy (DOT), monitoring adherence to anti-tuberculous regimens, and contributing to MDT management of complex infectious disease pathways.

To supervise medicines adherence, and to provide training and guidance as appropriate to encourage patients to take ownership and manage their medicines.

To communicate clear and accurate medicine related information, both verbal and written to patients/carers and other health professionals.

To promote effective medicines management, escalating poor practice and medication concerns as well as sharing best practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technician

Desirable

  • Specialist post-registration qualification such as BTEC Level 4 Diploma in Pharmacy Clinical Services or equivalent experience.

Experience

Essential

  • Significant experience of medicine management and understanding its application in community settings
  • Up to date knowledge of drug use
  • Understanding of issues involved in stock control
  • Experience of working to, and contributing to development of, standard operating procedures
  • Experience of direct patient care and patient medication counselling.
  • Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and autonomous working

Desirable

  • Experience of fostering compliance and concordance with medicines, including knowledge of common compliance aids
  • Experience of working with social care providers
  • Experience working within specialist clinics (e.g. TB, respiratory, diabetes)
  • Experience supporting patients with long-term conditions and complex polypharmacy

Skills

Essential

  • Standard keyboard skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, and listening skills
  • Ability to work independently to meet agreed objectives
  • Ability to work flexibly as part of a team
  • Ability to analyse problems and devise workable solutions

Desirable

  • Knowledge and experience of using SystmOne

Safeguarding

Essential

  • Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues

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: 19 July 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.