Clinical Pharmacy Technician

Cumbria,-Northumberland,-Tyne-and-Wear-Nhs-Foundation-Trust; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Lease cars

Childcare schemes

Season tickets for travel

Cycle to work scheme

Relocation support

Staff discounts

Job summary

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust in Gosforth is seeking a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our pharmacy team. You will provide medicines optimisation services across inpatient and community settings, with comprehensive training provided.

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council is required. The role includes medicines reconciliation on admission, patient and carer support, and liaison with community teams, with opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Pharmacy role requiring registration with the GPC and NHS standards.
• Experience as a Pharmacy Technician with post qualification experience.
• Competence in medicines reconciliation and patient counselling.
• Ability to work across wards and community teams.
• Strong IT skills and CPD commitment.

Responsibilities

• Medicines reconciliation and review on admission.
• Provide information to patients and carers on medicines.
• Optimise medicines across mental health and physical care.
• Coordinate medicines optimisation with community teams.
• Support clozapine clinics with reviews and health monitoring.
• Provide health and wellbeing advice to patients and staff.
• Discharge planning and liaison with partners.
• Support SNH dispensaries with accuracy checks.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Prioritisation

Team collaboration

Self-motivation

Education

Registration with GPC

Qualified Pharmacy Technician NVQ3/BTEC

Accredited checker of dispensed items

NVQ Assessor (A1 A2)

NVQ standardisation requirements

Accredited clinical training for wards

Job description

Employer Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Nicholas Hospital Town Gosforth Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 11/10/2026 23:59

Band 5

Hello!

We are so delighted you are considering coming to work with us at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW).

We know the power of looking into an organisation, one you might want to work in, or one where you are going to get help, and being able to say, ‘I’ve seen somewhere I can fit in and be myself.’ We’re on a journey to make the Trust an inclusive employer, representative of the community we serve and we want more of our community to consider applying for jobs with us.

Opportunities for you

Spanning east to west coasts from Northumberland to Cumbria and from the Scottish Borders down to Middlesbrough we’ve got exciting new opportunities available at every level and in every area.

We offer flexible working, helping work fit around family and caring responsibilities, or training and development needs and there’s lots on offer in the way of benefits, such as, lease cars, childcare schemes, staff discounts, season tickets for travel and a cycle to work scheme. All this in a vibrant workplace supported by the following staff networks.

• Cultural diversity staff network
• Disabled staff network
• LGBT+ staff network

We also have a number of staff support groups which are open to any staff to attend. These Include:

• Armed Forces and Veterans Staff Network
• Mind, Health and Wellbeing Community
• Menopause toolkit and cafes and staff carer support group

We offer fantastic personal development opportunities through our Collective Leadership Programme and other Organisational Development initiatives. Whatever you are looking for, you will be joining a supportive, friendly team, offering varied and interesting roles, with opportunities for career progression.

We’re always seeking to improve as an organisation. Do you want to be part of that?

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all external applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for you to have a role in direct patient care with opportunities to develop your clinical knowledge and skills.

We welcome applications from registered pharmacy technician colleagues working in all sectors of the profession. Prior experience working in mental health is not required as a comprehensive programme of training and clinical supervision will be provided.

We provide pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to all of our mental health, learning disability and neuro-rehabilitation inpatient areas, as well as to community and crisis teams. Our Pharmacy staff are highly regarded as valued members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role will be:

• Medicines reconciliation and review on admission.
• Providing support and information to patients and carers to assist with the management of their medicines.
• Optimising medicines, taking a holistic view of both mental and physical healthcare needs.
• Working in off-site community teams co-ordinating the process of medicines optimisation.
• Working in Clozapine clinics providing medicines management support, patient reviews and physical health monitoring including capillary blood sampling.
• Providing physical health and wellbeing advice to patients and staff.
• Discharge planning, liaison with patients, community teams and pharmacies.
• Operational support to the dispensaries at SNH by performing regular accuracy checking slots.

Working for our organisation

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

NHS Employees identified as at risk of compulsory redundancy and those eligible for the NENC Re-Deployment careers hub will receive prior consideration.

The North East of England and Cumbria boasts some of Britain’s most beautiful scenery, coastline and national parks. It offers affordable house prices, good connectivity and train links with some major cities. It can offer a fantastic quality of life and working for our Trust promotes a great work life balance. We have bases in many beautiful places which can give our staff the opportunity to explore some of these surrounding areas.

The Trust also offers financial support for successful candidates who need to relocate.

As a department, we are committed to developing and supporting our staff to achieve the maximum they can from their career, whilst delivering outstanding patient centred care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applicants must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Please find attached job description for full details.

We welcome your application.

Education and Qualifications

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Qualified Pharmacy Technician (NVQ3/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences) with post qualification experience
• Qualified Accredited Checker of dispensed items
• Qualified NVQ Assessor (A1 A2)
• Undertake NVQ standardisation requirements as necessary
• Accredited clinical training to deliver clinical service to wards

Knowledge and experience

• Evidence of commitment to CPD as a minimum to meet mandatory requirements of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Good IT skills – windows, word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, e-mail and web applications
• Evidence of ability to be self- motivated, practice self- management including prioritising workload and managing expectations of directly managed staff

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to work across professional and organizational boundaries internally and externally.
• Prioritisation of complex workload.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills, mature in outlook and flexible in approach to work with high professional standards and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills with demonstrable ability to present information to large groups of staff

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

Please ensure to check out all of the supporting documents linked to this advert, for useful information about working for us, information from our Chief Executive and much more.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.