Pharmacy Technician

CNTW Community Interest Company; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

CNTW NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join our Medicines Management team. This post offers direct patient care with opportunities to develop clinical knowledge in mental health settings and a comprehensive training programme.

You will perform medicines reconciliation on admission, support patients and carers, optimise medicines, provide physical health advice, and assist with discharge planning.

Qualifications

• GPhC registration is required for licensed practice.
• Post-qualification experience is desirable.
• NVQ3/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences qualification required.

Responsibilities

• Medicines reconciliation and review on admission.
• Provide information to patients and carers for medicines management.
• Optimise medicines with a holistic view of mental and physical health needs.
• Provide physical health and wellbeing advice to patients and carers.
• Discharge planning and liaison with community teams and pharmacies.
• Support main dispensary operations with accuracy checking.

Skills

Numeracy and literacy

Planning and time management

Analytical and judgemental skills

Accurate and consistent in work

Education

GPhC registration

NVQ3/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Job description

Go back Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

Pharmacy Technician

The closing date is 26 November 2026

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 as well as those about to join the register in the near future. 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.

Providing physical health and wellbeing advice to patients, carers and staff.

Discharge planning, liaison with patients, carers, community teams and pharmacies.

Operational support to the main dispensary at SNH by performing regular accuracy checking slots.

About us

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.

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.

To find out more about our department and see what our team has to say you can watch our YouTube video https://youtu.be/JgVFF1jMsuY

Job responsibilities

Please find attached job description for full details.

We welcome your application

Person Specification

Education and Qualification

• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Qualified Pharmacy Technician (NVQ3/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences) with post qualification experience
• Accurate and consistent in work application
• Good numeracy and literacy skills including; simple calculations, percentages, decimal, fractions
• Good planning, prioritisation and time management skills
• Good analytical and judgemental skills

Knowledge & Experience

• Current experience of dispensing medicines and working with patients
• Experience and knowledge of good clinical practice and how this applies to clinical trial medicines
• Recent experience of dispensing medicines and working with patients
• Accredited accuracy checking technician
• Experience in all areas of hospital
• Experience and understanding of all areas of hospital pharmacy

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.

Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust