Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Technician

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Job summary

A prominent NHS hospital trust in Newcastle upon Tyne seeks an Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Technician to join their Adult Rheumatology team. This role involves leading clinical verification of homecare prescriptions and provides opportunities for personal development and flexible working arrangements. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in a hospital setting, excellent communication skills, and be registered with GPhC. This position is vital in ensuring high standards of clinical pharmacy services within a large healthcare provider.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification experience in a hospital as a pharmacy technician.
• Experience as an accredited checking technician.
• Proven ability to manage staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical verification of homecare prescriptions.
• Support implementation of electronic prescribing solutions.
• Perform medicines reconciliation on admission and discharge.

Skills

Excellent oral and written communication

Customer care

Pharmacy computer systems knowledge

Time management

Ability to use Excel

Education

S/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services

Registered with GPhC

Job description

Employer The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Freeman Hospital Town 317 01 Freeman Hospital Salary £38,682 - £46,580 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/12/2025 23:59 Interview date 14/01/2026

Advanced Clinical Pharmacy Technician

Band 6

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, w e’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

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

A new opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinical technician to join the Clinical Pharmacy team at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals, working within the Adult Rheumatology team at the Freeman Hospital.

As the Rheumatology Department hosts supra-regional services, many of their medications are delivered via Pharmacy Homecare. This role is to lead on the organisation and verification of homecare prescriptions from a clinical perspective. As a GPhC registered Pharmacy Technician you will be required to work autonomously, referring to senior colleagues when required to do so. You will be expected to use your professional judgement to make decisions, and the role will include close working with Medics, Nurse Specialists and Pharmacists.

There will be opportunities for personal and professional development within the role. Links with the school of pharmacy and Newcastle University, alongside the wider MDT, will present opportunities to be involved in research and education. There is opportunity to develop your supervision and management skills.

As a department we are supportive of flexible working, including 9 day fortnights and slightly reduced working hours, and would welcome a discussion about this with any potential applicants.

• Interview Date Wednesday 14 January 2026
• 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 candidate will undertake a comprehensive training package and have formal sign off for homecare verification. They will then be responsible for clinical verification of different prescription types.

The right candidate will also be able to:

• Lead ward, day case unit and outpatient-based audits related to medicines management and governance
• Support the implementation of electronic prescribing solutions for the rheumatology team.
• Work as a clinical technician on the wards doing medicines reconciliation at the point of admission and discharge for rheumatology patients
• Work cohesively as part of our dispensary team; have allocated checking slots and helping out during busy periods
• Take on a leadership role, act as a role model and organise teams when required
• Contribute to extended working hours (late nights, weekends and bank holidays)
• Work independently, with the support of the wider team
• Liaise and work in partnership with multi-disciplinary teams
• Have a strong understanding of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society homecare professional standards and yearly audit
• The right candidate must have excellent organisational skills, be a strong communicator and confident using IT systems

Working for our organisation

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.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

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 perform the role of an experienced pharmacy technician including giving comprehensive advice, providing supervision and co-operating with colleagues, particularly in relation to the delivery of clinical pharmacy services and promoting the safe use of high-risk medication
• To contribute to the strategic review and development of clinical pharmacy services, to improve efficiency, patient safety and establish greater integration
• To assist the Patient Services Operations Manager and the Specialist Lead Pharmacy Technician in delivering efficient and safe medicine supply processes
• To co‑ordinate the safe expansion and development of clinical pharmacy services throughout the Trust
• To support the training and assessment of technical staff within clinical services
• To act as an accredited checking technician

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

• S/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and approved underpinning knowledge e.g. BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent recognised pharmacy technician qualification
• Regional medicines management course or equivalent (or working towards this)
• Registered with GPhC
• A1 (D32/33) Assessor award
• Level 4 Clinical Diploma for Pharmacy Technicians

Knowledge & Experience

• Significant post qualification experience of working in a hospital environment as a pharmacy technician, during which time the following has been achieved
• Significant experience of working at ward level as a medicines management technician
• Experience as an accredited checking technician. Knowledge and understanding of all technical aspects of pharmacy patient services, supported by practical experience and completion of an approved training programme
• Evidence of professional CPD
• Awareness of NHS strategic documents affecting pharmacy and trust vision and values. Practical experience of working as an NVQ
• Assessor
• Proven ability to manage staff
• Proven ability in change management in quality improvement

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent oral and written communication
• Excellent customer care
• Working knowledge of pharmacy computer systems
• Ability to analyse and overcome barriers in implementation of change
• Ability to use Microsoft word
• Good workload and time management skills
• Ability to use excel programmes

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

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.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e‑mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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.