Pharmacy Technician Community Pharmacy and Integration
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role supports the implementation and rollout of community pharmacy clinical services and pathways. It involves providing technical and administrative support, reviewing service materials, and assisting with training for community pharmacy teams. The post holder will facilitate integration between pharmacies, PCNs, and other neighbourhood services, and help improve access to medicines and local services. Key responsibilities include supporting audits, data collection, and maintaining dashboards for monitoring and evaluation.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis
- Advanced knowledge of IT systems including MS suite of packages and information systems relevant to role.
Desirable criteria
- Basic knowledge of project principles
- Previously worked in similar position within the public sector
- Communication Skills
- Interpersonal and oral/written communication skills in order to communicate complex information and administrative matters
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letter
- Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Analytical
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Planning Skills
- Skills for project management
- Autonomy
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
- Management Skills
- Skills for managing aspects of projects ensuring they meet financial targets
- Physical Skills
- Skills for manipulating information
- Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software
- Equality and Diversity
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
- Knowledge, Training and Experience
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis
- Advanced knowledge of IT systems including MS suite of packages and information systems relevant to role.
- Basic knowledge of project principles
- Previously worked in similar position within the public sector
- Communication Skills
- Interpersonal and oral/written communication skills in order to communicate complex information and administrative matters
- Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letter
- Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills
- Analytical
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Planning Skills
- Skills for project management
- Autonomy
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
- Management Skills
- Skills for managing aspects of projects ensuring they meet financial targets
- Physical Skills
- Skills for manipulating information
- Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software
- Equality and Diversity
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 2d ago · Closes in 13d
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Job summary
- Support implementation of community pharmacy clinical services.
- Assistwith the rollout of community pharmacy delivered pathways, providing technical and administrative support.
- Help review andmaintainservice materials, implementationpacksand standard operating tools.
- Support training and onboarding activities for community pharmacy teams.
Main duties of the job
Enable pharmacy integration within Neighbourhood Health teams
- Support coordination between community pharmacies, PCNs and other neighbourhood services. Facilitate information flows, meetinglogisticsand follow up actions between partners. Helpidentifyoperational issues and escalate appropriately.
Improve access to medicines and local services
- Support mapping of services, signposting materials and practical processes that improve access to urgent and same day community pharmacy services. Collect and summarise feedback from providers to support continuous improvement. Work with community pharmacy to promote consistent operational delivery.
Provide technical, governance and quality support
- Support audits, processreviewsand data collection for neighbourhood pharmacy programmes. Help ensure services follow agreed protocols and governance arrangements.
Data,monitoringand reporting
- Gather activity data, service KPIs and feedback to support monitoring and evaluation. Maint
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