Pharmacy Technician (Primary Care) | Northumbria Primary Care
| Posting date: | 03 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 October 2025 |
| Location: | Rothbury and Amble, NE65 7RW |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7446990/319-7446990RW |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within Northumbria Primary Care for a Band 4 Registered Pharmacy Technician to join the team, supporting a group of GP practices within our North Northumberland Neighbourhood (NPC Rothbury, NPC Amble and Broomhill, NPC Widdrington). The successful candidate will work closely with clinical and administrative colleagues to process a wide range of medication related tasks. The successful candidate will be expected to work between Rothbury and Amble. A base site will be agreed and milage can be claimed from base site - the postholder must have business insurance on their policy.
The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of a comprehensive primary care medicines management system acting on current best practice. The Pharmacy Technician will be required to undertake activities predominantly within practice, but will need to be flexible to work to the wider demands of the network.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
The role will contribute to the efficient and effective delivery of medicines to patients e.g. medicines supply, actioning of discharge summary medication changes, liaising with care homes regarding prescription queries and supporting the organisation move towards online prescription services. An understanding of primary care operations and use of SystmOne would be an advantage but is not essential.
Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs and now manages several GP practices with around 120,000 registered patients in Northumberland and North Tyneside.
Appointees will have a nominated base site within NPC as we appreciate continuity and teamwork is vital to effective primary care. As a large multi-site organisation we benefit from offering cross site support and the opportunity to work flexibly across our practices. We also offer evening and weekend working which further enhances flexible working opportunities. Please note that NPC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before applying to join our fantastic organisation.
To work under the management of the Clinical Pharmacists in the North Neighbourhood to deliver a comprehensive medicines management to ensure a safe and efficient service is maintained, delivering a range of medicines management activities including medicines reconciliation and repeat prescription requests
To liaise with pharmacy staff in all sectors and other healthcare professionals to ensure a patient orientated medicines management service is provided, conducting medicines reviews for patients identified by the wider multidisciplinary team or from other medicines management initiatives.
To work closely with the Clinical Pharmacists to adopt a team approach to medicines management, acting as a key member of the multidisciplinary team and the wider pharmacy team, providing medicines management advice to healthcare professionals,patients and carers.
To work with the Clinical Pharmacists to develop and undertake medicines management audits, to support discussion within the practice and agree subsequent actions.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within Northumbria Primary Care. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Sep 2025