PCN – Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge, to develop the role of pharmacy technicians in general practice? The [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is looking for a pharmacy technician to join their growing pharmacy team to deliver clinical pharmacy services across our Dronfield practices and care home service. This is an exciting new post with huge scope for professional and role development, working alongside existing pharmacy teams integrated into our practices and care home service.

The ideal candidate will be a registered pharmacy technician, who is an enthusiastic, adaptable team player with an interest in developing the role of pharmacy technicians within our PCN, who can use their initiative to dynamically support practice-based pharmacy teams with workflow across several practices. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about patient care and will contribute to improving the quality of prescribing in primary care. You will be supported to develop to your full potential by our team of experienced clinical pharmacists and technicians.

You will be expected to enroll on the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP) if you have not completed already or can be exempted. Practice-based/home-based flexible working arrangements are available

We are only in a position to offer this post for up to 30 hours a week. However, as this post is split across two sites, we do not feel the role would be sustainable on significantly less than that.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multidisciplinary team, supporting clinical pharmacists and practice colleagues to deliver high quality medicines management. This will include contributing to medicines optimisation at transfer of care, safer prescribing systems, clinical medicines management, technical medication reviews, and aspects of structured medication and long term condition reviews. The role will also support the management of repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisations, in line with agreed protocols and the post holders scope of practice.

The post holder will help patients achieve the best outcomes from their medicines by supporting the delivery of clinical pharmacy services. This will include reconciling medication changes following transfer of care, monitoring and acting on medication risk stratification tools, responding to patient and healthcare professional queries, and improving repeat prescribing processes such as the promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering. The role will focus on minimising clinical risk, reducing medicines waste, and improving efficiency.

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is not an Agenda for Change organisation but does offer structured pay progression and NHS pension.

Interviews for this post will be held at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], Dunston Innovation Centre, face to face, on Tuesday 2nd June 2026.

Job description

• Key duties and responsibilities
• 1. Patient facing medicines support – Stratify and triage patients to determine the appropriate level of review...
• 2. Medicines related clinical support for care homes
• 3. Long-term condition Clinics
• 4. Risk stratification
• 5. Unplanned hospital admissions
• 6. Management of medicines at transfer of care
• 7. Medicine information to practice staff and patients
• 8. Signposting
• 9. Repeat prescribing
• 10. Service development
• 11. Information management
• 12. Medicines quality improvement
• 13. Medicines safety
• 14. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
• 15. Education and Training
• 16. Care Quality Commission
• 17. Public health
• 18. Collaborative working arrangements

Person Specification

• Qualifications – Essential: Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as pharmacy technician
• Qualifications – Desirable: Membership Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Foundation training in primary care
• Experience – Desirable: Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
• Skills and Knowledge – Essential: Comprehensive understanding of the role, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, knowledge of IT systems, ability to work under pressure, etc.
• Skills and Knowledge – Desirable: Experience in primary care, therapeutic knowledge, understanding of NHS structures
• Other – Essential: Adaptable, self-motivated, appropriate immunisation status, DBS check, access to transport

Employer details

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], Dunston Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, S41 8NG

Employer’s website: https://www.chesterfieldanddronfieldpcn.nhs.uk/

Contact

Lead Clinical Pharmacist: Adam Yates – [contact hidden]