Pharmacy Technician Higher Level – Homecare Services
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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 is a 6-month fixed-term maternity cover position for a Pharmacy Technician in the Homecare Services team. The role involves ensuring safe homecare medicine delivery, obtaining patient consent, counselling patients on their medicines, and processing prescriptions. You will also act as a first point of contact for patient queries and assist in managing invoices and monitoring service performance.
Key responsibilities
- Work primarily with out-patient clinics, upholding principles of the DH Patient Charter for Homecare Services.
- Obtain consent from patients for homecare services, completing registration forms and explaining processes.
- Counsel patients regarding their medicines, especially those delivered via homecare.
- Act as a first point of contact for patient queries and complaints about homecare services.
- Process and manage prescriptions for the Homecare service according to Trust procedures.
- Assist in the management of invoice queries and processing, and monitor key performance indicators.
Essential criteria
- BTec in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent
- NVQ3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Further pharmacy-specific qualifications to NVQ Level 4, or acknowledged equivalent experience.
- Relevant post-registration employment, including recent experience of provision of medicines via homecare
- Patient counselling
- Presenting data in a variety of formats
- Continuing professional development with portfolio.
- Broad technical and pharmaceutical knowledge. GCP/GMP
- Current issues within pharmacy and the NHS.
- IT skills - word processing, spreadsheets
- Ascribe Patient Medication Records and eMM
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to make judgements based on incomplete or conflicting data.
- Ability to manage time, people and resources.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Able to work accurately to deadlines.
- Ability to identify and implement best practice. Ability to identify and manage risk.
- Empathetic
- Able to communicate complex information to patients and carers, where subject matter may be sensitive and where there may be barriers to understanding
- Able to organise and prioritise workload.
- Commitment to continuing professional development.
- Able to travel independently between sites.
Desirable criteria
- Accuracy Checking certificate.
- Medicines Management Certificate.
- Medicines management.
- Obtaining consent.
- Accuracy checking experience.
- Supervisory experience.
- Managing change.
- Supervising and training staff.
- Patient specific ordering.
- Understanding of commissioning, budgets and tariff income.
- Service Level Agreements.
- Able to lead a team and motivate others.
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.
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North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Pharmacy Technician Higher Level – Homecare Services
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
We are looking for a motivated individual to join the Pharmacy Homecare Team at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation (NCIC) Trust for a period of 6 months. This maternity cover post will be part of the Homecare team for the Trust. Full training will be given. The Homecare team provides services to a variety of clinical teams in the Trust to ensure the patients get an excellent quality and safe Homecare medicines delivery, working with a large number of Homecare providers across the UK. Homecare ensures the Trust and commissioners use best value services and work towards using cost-effective treatments and services as soon as they become available.
Main duties of the job
A Homecare Technician works as part of a team, and the main duties are: Work primarily with out-patient clinics, ensuring that the principles in the DH Patient Charter for Homecare Services are upheld.
Obtain consent from patients identified for homecare services, ensuring registration forms are completed and explaining homecare processes to patients. Counsel patients in relation to their medicines, particularly those medicines delivered via homecare processes.
Act as a first point of contact for patients with queries and complaints abou
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