Pharmacy Technician Medicines Value and Prescribing Quality

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board; Burton Latimer; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board is recruiting for a Pharmacy Technician (Medicines Value and Prescribing Quality), Band 5. The role supports delivery of data processing, auditing, and prescribing guidance across Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland.

The post involves developing simple dashboards, maintaining trackers, and liaising with practice teams. A degree-level qualification and strong IT/ MS Office skills are expected.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent experience.
• Strong data processing and basic analysis skills.
• Good interpersonal and written communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Data processing and basic analysis of prescribing data and audit results.
• Audit and quality support including formulary adherence reviews.
• Stakeholder and communication support across teams and practices.
• Administration and programme support to ensure project tasks run smoothly.

Skills

Data processing

Communication skills

Education

Degree level education

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Employer NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site County Hall/ Haylock House Town Leicestershire/ Northamptonshire Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/09/2026 23:59

Pharmacy Technician Medicines Value and Prescribing Quality

NHS AfC: Band 5

Our vision for the future of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland’s health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.

Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.

Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:

• Our patients and our local population come first
• We work together in an open and accountable way
• We trust, challenge and support each other
• We do what we say we will do.

Job overview

• Support project and intervention delivery.
• Assist with the practical rollout of medicines value interventions and prescribing support tools.
• Help maintain implementation packs, communication materials and tracking documents.
• Undertake follow up actions and support operational tasks across practices and providers.

Main duties of the job

• Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model.
• Data processing and basic analysisCollect and organise prescribing data, audit results and activity information. Support maintenance of simple dashboards, trackers and logs. Highlight anomalies or issues to the Band 6 technician or 8a pharmacist.
• Audit and quality support Conduct structured audit activities, repeat prescribing checks and formulary adherence reviews as directed. Ensure accurate documentation and data entry for monitoring purposes. Support gathering evidence for assurance reports.
• Stakeholder and communication support Assistwith liaising between teams, coordinating meetings and managing documentation. Support dissemination of updated formulary information, prescribingguidanceand technical materials. Facilitate engagement sessions andmaintaineffective communications with practices and PCNs.
• Administration and programme support Manage resources, shared folders, action logs and operational documentation. Support programme coordination tasks to ensure projects run smoothly. Escalate operational issues promptly.

Working for our organisation

Working for our Integrated Care Boards will require you contributing to a shared purpose of improving outcomes for the communities we serve as part of a wider health and social care system. The organisation’s ethos is rooted in integrity, collaboration and accountability, with a strong focus on putting its patient population at the centre of everything it does and delivering services to improve patient outcomes, patient experience and added years of optimised health. As part of the newly formed cluster bringing together NHS Northamptonshire ICB and NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB, staff are expected to work flexibly and collaboratively across organisational boundaries to support a joined-up approach to strategic commissioning and service improvement. There is an expectation of 40% on patch working, with office bases at County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester and Haylock House, Kettering. Staff can choose which office is their primary base for contractual purposes and travel claims.

This role will require a minimum of 2 days ‘on patch’ working in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland in our 2 main offices or partner sites

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Data processing and basic analysis, audit and quality support, stakeholder and communication support, administration and programme support

See attachment for full job description and person specification

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
• Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis
• Advanced knowledge of IT systems including MS suite of packages and information systems relevant to role
• Basic knowledge of project principles
• Previously worked in similar position within the public sector

Communication Skills

• Interpersonal and oral/written communication skills in order to communicate complex information and administrative matter
• Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters
• Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills

Analytical

• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise

Planning Skills

• Skills for project management

Autonomy

• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales

Management Skills

• Skills for managing aspects of projects ensuring they meet financial targets.

Physical Skills

• Skills for manipulating information
• Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software

Equality and Diversity

• Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships

Please note, there is an requirement for all positions at Bands 8b and above to be part of a On Call rota.

All new entrants to the ICB for a permanent position will be subject to a 6 month probationary period. For new entrants appointed on a fixed-term basis, the probationary period is between 1 and 6 months.

We are an equal opportunities employer and all applications will be welcomed and considered regardless of a person’s age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates and those applicants need only meet the essential criteria to be invited to interview. We will also make any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, including the Job Description and Person Specification, to enable you to pursue your application, providing that you inform us of any special requirements.

L N R ICBs recognise that applicants may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to support the preparation of their application, for example to help with structure, grammar, or presentation. Applicants must ensure that all information submitted is accurate, authentic, and reflects their own skills, experience, and suitability for the role. Any use of AI in preparing an application must be clearly declared and may be explored or challenged as part of the interview and selection process.

Arden & GEM CSU administer this account on behalf of the ICB, you may receive communications from both the CSU and the ICB during your recruitment.

If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems in order to support and manage your recruitment and employment within the organisation.

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.

Name Freya Seagrave Job title Pharmacist Medicines Quality and Governance Email address [emailprotected]