PCN Pharmacy Technician

NHS Jobs; Rugby; Hybrid; GBP 31,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site parking

Flexible hours

Job summary

Rugby Health seeks a Pharmacy Technician to work across 12 GP Practices in the Rugby area, under supervision of Practice Pharmacists. You will contribute to safe, efficient medicines usage and optimisation, and support CPD development.

You must be GPhC registered and may be enrolled in CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway. This is a full/part-time, practice-based role with flexible hours where needed.

Qualifications

• GPhC registration as Pharmacy Technician.
• BTEC/NVQ level 3 in pharmacy services.
• Enrolled in/qualified from PCPEP pathway.

Responsibilities

• Undertake patient-facing roles to ensure effective medicines use.
• Carry out medicines optimisation tasks and reconciliation.
• Support medicines reviews for new care home patients and transfers.

Skills

GPhC registered

Medicines optimisation

Pharmacy knowledge

Patient communication

Education

GPhC Registration as Pharmacy Technician

BTEC/NVQ level 3 in pharmacy services

PCPEP pathway enrollment

Tools

EMIS

EPS familiarity

Job description

Rugby Health is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to workacross our 12 GP Practices in the Rugby area, under the supervision of thePractice-based Clinical Pharmacists. You'll join our growing Pharmacy team, tosupport and ensure the delivery of safe, effective, efficient systems forrepeat prescribing and medicine optimisation to reduce medicine waste andmaximise patient outcomes.

The successful candidate will be confident working independently,handling the technical administration related to the role, whilst working underappropriate clinical supervision to ensure safe, effective and efficient use ofmedicines. You will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council(GPhC) and enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved trainingpathway i.e. CPPE Primary care Education Pathway training unless otherwiseexempt.

The role is 100% practice-based, and the successfulcandidate will demonstrate innovative ideas, excellent communication skills,enthusiasm and motivation. You will be patient-facing, dealing with dailymedication requests and queries, communicating with patients and CommunityPharmacies and with responsibility for encouraging the development of betterunderstanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout thepractice teams, promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. Youwill assist the Practices in achieving national requirements, NICEimplementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.

Main duties of the job

This position is available on either a full-time or part-time basis. For part-time candidates, a minimum commitment of 3 days per week is required, with a fixed work pattern of Monday to Wednesday inclusive.

Duties include:

Undertake patient facing and patient supportingroles to ensure effective medicines use

Carry out medicines optimisation tasks includingeffective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supportingmedication reviews, and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utiliseconsultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they usetheir medicines effectively;

Support, as determined by the PCN, medicationreviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients andsynchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linkingwith local community pharmacists.

Provide specialist expertise, where competent,to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, includinglifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local healthinequalities; e. take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared careprotocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients;

Support initiatives for antimicrobialstewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisationand management incentive schemes and patient safety audits;

Please see JD for further duties - see documents

About us

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this role.

Interviews will take place in mid-October 2026.

Rugby Health is a private company limited by shares, whollyowned by all the Rugby GP practices. As a GP led organisation, we represent 12GP practice shareholders and cover over 126,500 patients. We describe our work as building on the coreof current primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive,personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care. Our aimis to move from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for thepeople and communities we serve.

Why Work For Us?

On-site parking at GP practices where available

Flexible hours and working arrangements considered from day 1

Dynamic and adaptable team

Training and support, enabling you to develop within the role as you will beactively supported to complete the appropriate CPD

Job responsibilities

Duties and Responsibilities

The Pharmacy Technician has the following key clinical, and technical and administrative responsibilities,in delivering health services:

Clinical Responsibilities:

Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, throughshared decision-making conversations with patients;

Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checkinginhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation. Where required,utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicineseffectively;

Support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for newcare home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings andlinking with local community pharmacists.

Provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social careneeds of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local healthinequalitie; i.e. take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising withspecialist pharmacists for more complex patients;

Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialistpharmacists for more complex patients;

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patientsafety audits;

Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices,care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinicalaudits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to theQuality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services;

Technical and Administrative Responsibilities:

Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, includingimplementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage;

Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so asto allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests;

Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across the PCN, supporting practices witha range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementingElectronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and managementof high-risk medicines;

Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including theimplementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)

Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social careincluding primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health

Handle specific information, which may be sensitive, complex or confidential and appropriatelyrecording, transferring and/or coordinating such information in accordance with the DataProtection Act; Caldicott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of ConductTo be responsible for the organisation and planning of own workload to meet set deadlines

To undertake learning and development to maintain the required knowledge and skills forpractice-based work

To carry out other duties which are appropriate to the skills and competencies of the post holderand grade of the post as the priorities of the service change

Any other duties as may be requested by the Clinical Lead or Operations Director of the PCN

Person Specification

Experience

• Comfortably computer literate with an ability to use clinical systems (desirable) and Microsoft office packages (essential)
• Understand the aims of current healthcare policy within the PCN
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data
• Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily
• Able to effectively manage allocated resources
• Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines
• Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to adjust communication style and content to suit the audience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with team members, patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals. Whilst recognising peoples needs for alternative methods of communication
• Influencing and negotiating skills
• An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues
• EMIS User Skills
• Experience of medicines reconciliation
• Understanding of community pharmacy systems
• Ability to develop and implement policy and procedure to sustain a quality service
• Understanding of QOF/PCN DES/IIF

Qualifications

• GpHC Registration as a Pharmacy Technician
• BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmacy services
• Enrolled in, undertaking, or qualified from, an approved training pathway e.g., the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP)
• Accredited checking technician

Other

• Full UK driving licence and access to own vehicle as travel across the PCN network is required to fulfill business needs
• Self-motivated and proactive self-starter
• Adaptable

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.

Various locations across the PCN footprint

£36,261 a year(FTE) with eligibility for NHS Pension Scheme

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time

Reference number

A5360-26-0011

Job locations

Various locations across the PCN footprint