Job summary
- Main area
- 317 Pharmacy Staff Recharges - Corporate
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 317-2025-24-13-DR
- Employer
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- 317 Trustwide
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 02/07/2025
Employer heading
Clinical Pharmacy Technician
Band 5
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts each day, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Job overview
We are delighted to offer this exciting full time post in partnership with Newcastle Outer West Primary Care Network. The post is supported and resourced by the trust but based in the Outer West Primary Care Network. The successful candidate will be joining an established team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians in a patient facing role. You can make a real difference for multi-comorbid individuals and those at risk of medication related harm. You will be supported in practice and on the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway by a named senior clinical pharmacist and an educational supervisor from CPPE as well as our talented, research-active multidisciplinary teams.
Outer West Primary Care Network comprises of 6 practices, travelling between practices would be required. If you are kind, innovative, work well in a team, find patient consultations rewarding and understand patient centred care then you could be our perfect fit.
Prior experience in a patient facing role in any sector is an advantage. Please see the Job description and Person specification for more details and get in touch for a chat or a visit.
- Interview Date: 2 July 2025
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37 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
The successful applicants will register with Centre for Postgraduate Pharmacy Education’s Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP); the course is fully funded by Health Education England, and we will provide full financial support for travel, study leave, and any equipment needed.
Key responsibilities of the role include solving medicines related problems for patients and alleviating GP workload. This will include:
- reconciling medicines at the point of registration to the practice and liaison with the team regarding onward monitoring.
- Establishing patient safety systems within the practices related to high risk medicines
- making changes to the patient’s primary care record
- issuing prescriptions
- talking to patients about new/changed medicines
- electronic transfer of care to community pharmacy
- providing alternative medicines during stock supply shortages
- adjusting medicine formulations for swallowing difficulties or MDS provision
- bringing medicine issues in line for repeat dispensing or proxy ordering
- re-authorising repeat medicines
- Setting up electronic repeat dispensing
- Supporting the wider pharmacy team through collaboration and shared learning
Working for our organisation
Our staff oversee over 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To practice as an experienced pharmacy technician.
- To practice as a registered pharmacy technician.
- To provide a clinical service to identified patients
- In domiciliary general practice or Trust settings including reducing risk associated with the admission and discharge process.
- To undertake a broad range of technical pharmaceutical activities including providing advice to patients and other healthcare staff.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person specification
KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of all technical aspects of pharmacy patient services, supported by practical experience gained by practical experience of an approved training programme.
- In addition successful completion of an in-house competency based training programme or previous relevant post qualification relevant clinical experience which provides an equivalent level of additional experience.
SKILLS
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Excellent customer care
- Working knowledge of pharmacy, hospital and/or general practice computer systems.
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Practical experience of working in a relevant clinical pharmacy environment.
Desirable criteria
- Practical experience of working as a designated checker
- Familiar with Medicines Information enquiry answering resources
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- S/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and approved underpinning knowledge e.g. BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent recognised pharmacy technician qualification plus experience to degree equivalent.
- Registered with GPhC
Desirable criteria
- Medicines Management qualification
- Formal management qualification
- NVQ Assessor qualification
- An Accredited Accuracy Checking Qualification
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Vincent
- Job title
- Senior Lead Clinical Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971686028
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