PCN Pharmacy Technician

Primary Integrated Community Services; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service provider in Nottingham is looking for a Pharmacy Technician to enhance patient care and support medicines optimisation. The role involves working closely with healthcare professionals and patients to ensure effective medication use and improve prescribing processes. Applicants should hold a General Pharmaceutical Council registration and have a commitment to professional development. This position offers various benefits, including generous leave and opportunities for training.

Benefits

NHS Pension

Generous annual leave

Flexible work-life balance

Free parking

Access to training opportunities

Qualifications

• Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Good clinical knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• Encourage principles of medicines optimisation.
• Assist with patient-facing roles for effective medicines use.
• Support medication reviews and reconciliation.

Skills

Clinical knowledge

Patient support

Medicines optimisation

Education

General Pharmaceutical Council professional registration

Tools

Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)

Medicines reconciliation

Job description

Nottingham West PCN covers 12 practices with a well-established clinical pharmacy team in practice as well as a pharmacy lead cardiovascular service, prescribing for patients in hypertension and lipids, across the PCN. This service won a PresQipp award and was shortlisted for the National General Practice awards.

We are a well-established, forward thinking PCN with a large and supportive clinical pharmacy team. Medicines Safety is at the heart of our team, working at PCN level to ensure high risk medicines are monitored regularly, along side innovative system one visualisations on drug monitoring.

We have a strong pharmacy technician team, lead by our senior pharmacy technician.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic team. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic about providing high quality care.

Our Senior Pharmacy staff will support you to fulfil the requirements of the role and you will have access to the CPPE pathway in order to develop your skills. We are committed to further the development of Pharmacy Technicians within Primary Care.

Interview date: 10th October 2025

Main duties of the job

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments.
• Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
• Be a key player in the multi-disciplinary PCN team.

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• General Pharmaceutical Council professional registration
• Good clinical knowledge (including terminology) and knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law, ethics and current legislation
• Evidence of continued professional development

About us

About us

PICS is the employer for this role. We collaborate with patients and partners to design and deliver clinically robust health and social care solution through Community Services, Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out more about us: http://picsnhs.org.uk/.

Benefits of working for PICS

We offer a comprehensive package which includes:

NHS Pension 2015 Scheme (subject to eligibility)

• Alternative government-based scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Generous annual leave entitlement which references NHS Agenda for Change and recognises previous NHS service, starting 35 days pro rata (inc bank holidays)
• Competitive leave entitlement that includes maternity, paternity and adoption leave, study leave allowance, and sickness provisions
• Access to education and training opportunities, depending on your role (CPPE Pharmacy, NHS England Roadmap for First Contact Practitioners, apprenticeship schemes, support professional development)
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team with support from a wide variety of professionals
• A flexible approach to a work-life balance
• Cycle to work scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Access to Blue Light Card scheme
• All staff events and conferences
• Free parking across many sites
• Personalised induction into the company and job role

Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE

Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses our ambition to deliver person-centred, coordinated care across the district. The Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including the Five Year Forward View and GP Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on General Practice.

Pharmacy Technicians play an important role, complementing Clinical Pharmacists, Community Pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team. Pharmacy Technicians are different to Clinical Pharmacists as they are not able to prescribe or make clinical decisions, instead working under supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines.

Pharmacy Technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories.

The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

In addition, the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical

• Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
• Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
• As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.
• Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structure Medication Reviews (SMR) i.e. organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.
• Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
• Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.
• Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.

Technical and administration

• Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
• Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage.
• Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
• Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering.
• Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.
• Support practice Reception Teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and Clinical Pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
• Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.
• Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements

For more information, please see the supporting documents

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Knowledge and skills

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Qualifications

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.

Experience

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

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.