Advanced Pharmacy Technician/Data Analyst
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This advanced pharmacy technician role within the Medicines Optimisation team involves providing analytical input into population health workstreams and medicine value/prescribing quality. The post holder will access, extract, clean, validate, and transform prescribing, outcomes, and population health datasets. They will analyse trends, variations, and inequalities in medicines use, producing clear visualisations and reports for clinical and managerial audiences. The role also supports the evaluation of medicines optimisation interventions and contributes to continuous improvement and innovation in analytical methods and digital solutions.
Key responsibilities
- Access, extract and prepare prescribing, outcomes and population health datasets.
- Clean, validate and transform data to ensure accuracy and reliability.
- Analyse trends, variation and inequalities within medicines use and population health data.
- Produce clear visualisations, dashboards and written summaries for clinical and managerial audiences.
- Support evaluation of medicines optimisation and population health interventions.
- Help refine analytical methods, tools and reporting processes.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development
- Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects inc omplex and challenging environment
- Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend an appropriate course of action to address the issues
- Experience in project management and planning
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
- Skills for manipulating information. Intermediate keyboard skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 9d ago · Closes in 8d
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Job summary
This is an advanced pharmacy technician role within the Medicines Optimisation team of NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) and NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Boards. The role provide analytical input into population health workstreams or medicine value and prescribing quality.
The post holder will need to build and maintain constructive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to:
- Internal ICB staff including managers, colleagues, and senior management as appropriate
- System partners, including portfolio leads, Local Authorities and Provider and Place Collaboratives
- Non-NHS organisations
- Members of the public and service users as appropriate
- Matrix work across all other teams to address interdependencies and ensure alignment of mutual objectives
- External consultancy, as required
Main duties of the job
Support delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model.
Data management and extraction
Access, extract and prepare prescribing, outcomes and population health datasets.
Clean,validateand transform data to ensure accuracy and reliability.
Maintain data quality in line with ICS information governance standards.
Analytical insight and reporting
Analyse trends,variationand inequalities within medicines use and population health data.
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