PCN Pharmacy Technician

This position is available on either a full-time or part-time basis. For part-time candidates, a minimum commitment of 3 days per week is required, with a fixed work pattern of Monday to Wednesday inclusive.

Undertake patient facing and patient supporting

roles to ensure effective medicines use

Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including

effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting

medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise

consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use

their medicines effectively;

Support, as determined by the PCN, medication

reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and

synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking

with local community pharmacists.

Provide specialist expertise, where competent,

to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including

lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health

inequalities; e. take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care

protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients;

Support initiatives for antimicrobial

stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation

and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits;

Please see JD for further duties - see documents

Duties and Responsibilities

The Pharmacy Technician has the following key clinical, and technical and administrative responsibilities,

Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through

shared decision-making conversations with patients;

Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking

inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation. Where required,

utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines

effectively;

Support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new

care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and

linking with local community pharmacists.

Provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care

needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health

inequalitie; i.e. take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with

specialist pharmacists for more complex patients;

Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist

pharmacists for more complex patients;

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient

safety audits;

Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices,

care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical

audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the

Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services;

Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including

implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage;

Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as

to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests;

Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across the PCN, supporting practices with

a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing

Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management

of high-risk medicines;

Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the

implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)

Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi

disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care

including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health

Handle specific information, which may be sensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately

recording, transferring and/or coordinating such information in accordance with the Data

Protection Act; Caldicott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct

To be responsible for the organisation and planning of own workload to meet set deadlines

To undertake learning and development to maintain the required knowledge and skills for

practice-based work

To carry out other duties which are appropriate to the skills and competencies of the post holder

and grade of the post as the priorities of the service change

Any other duties as may be requested by the Clinical Lead or Operations Director of the PCN

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this role.

Interviews will take place in mid-October 2026.

Please ensure you complete all sections of the application form fully and accurately as incomplete applications may not be shortlisted.

Applications will only be accepted via the NHS Job Portal, individual CVs will not be accepted.

Rugby Health is a private company limited by shares, wholly

owned by all the Rugby GP practices. As a GP led organisation, we represent 12

GP practice shareholders and cover over 126,500 patients. We describe our work as building on the core

of current primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive,

personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care. Our aim

is to move from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for the

people and communities we serve.

On-site parking at GP practices where available

Flexible hours and working arrangements considered from day 1

Dynamic and adaptable team

Training and support, enabling you to develop within the role as you will be

actively supported to complete the appropriate CPD

Experience

Qualifications

Desirable: - Accredited checking technician

Other