Pharmacy Technician High-Cost Meds - Band 5
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
This role supports the safe, effective, and cost-efficient management of high-cost medicines across the health and care system. You will provide technical expertise, process prior approval requests, and validate invoices to ensure compliance with commissioning requirements and governance standards. The position involves maintaining accurate records, using digital systems, and collaborating with various healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes through effective medicines management.
Essential criteria
- Ability to interpret and analyse data, identify discrepancies and support reporting or assurance processes.
- Ability to apply professional pharmacy knowledge to review information, assess compliance with policies and identify issues requiring escalation.
- Experience using digital systems and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, to support reporting and monitoring activities.
- People & Culture
- Ability to contribute to a positive, collaborative working environment, fostering continuous improvement and shared learning.
- Demonstrated commitment to compassionate practice and promoting diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity within pharmacy teams and across commissioning support functions.
- A commitment to continuous improvement, organisational learning and achieving positive outcomes for staff, patients and service users, working in line with the NHS People Promise
- Governance & Assurance
- Ability to apply professional pharmacy knowledge to ensure approval and funding processes comply with formulary requirements, NICE guidance and local commissioning policies.
- Ability to review documentation for accuracy and completeness, identify gaps and escalate complex or clinically sensitive cases appropriately.
- Ability to support governance by maintaining accurate records, validating requests against commissioning criteria and contributing to audit and performance monitoring activities.
- Personal Attributes and Values
- Personal commitment to the values of the NHS 10-year Plan, the NHS People Plan, the Nolan Principles, to championing equality, diversity and inclusion within the ICB and the wider health system.
- Registered pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence of sustained commitment to continuous professional development (CPD)
- Experience of working as a registered Pharmacy Technician in a hospital, primary care, community pharmacy, commissioning or medicines optimisation setting.
- Experience maintaining accurate records and working with digital systems to support medicines management, governance or service delivery.
- Experience handling complex queries and providing accurate information to healthcare professionals, patients or other stakeholders.
- Knowledge of medicines governance, formulary processes, NICE guidance or commissioning requirements.
- Partnerships & Communities
- Able to represent the Medicines Innovation and Pathways team professionally in meetings and communications with internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience working across teams and organisations to support the delivery of projects and work programmes.
- Able to communicate effectively, work collaboratively and raise concerns or issues appropriately to support delivery of objectives
- Strategy & Analysis
- Ability to interpret and analyse data, identify discrepancies and support reporting or assurance processes.
- Ability to apply professional pharmacy knowledge to review information, assess compliance with policies and identify issues requiring escalation.
- Experience using digital systems and Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, to support reporting and monitoring activities.
- People & Culture
- Ability to contribute to a positive, collaborative working environment, fostering continuous improvement and shared learning.
- Demonstrated commitment to compassionate practice and promoting diversity, inclusion and equality of opportunity within pharmacy teams and across commissioning support functions.
- A commitment to continuous improvement, organisational learning and achieving positive outcomes for staff, patients and service users, working in line with the NHS People Promise
- Governance & Assurance
- Ability to apply professional pharmacy knowledge to ensure approval and funding processes comply with formulary requirements, NICE guidance and local commissioning policies.
- Ability to review documentation for accuracy and completeness, identify gaps and escalate complex o
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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NHS Essex Integrated Care Board
Pharmacy Technician High-Cost Meds - Band 5
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join Essex ICB's Medicines Innovation and Pathways team and contribute to the safe, effective and cost-efficient management of high-cost medicines across the health and care system. The role supports patient access to specialist treatments while ensuring compliance with commissioning requirements, medicines governance standards and NHS funding arrangements.
You will:
- Provide technical expertise to support the management of high-cost medicines and commissioning processes.
- Process prior approval requests, ensuring applications meet commissioning criteria and local policy requirements.
- Support accurate and timely validation of high-cost medicines invoices, helping to ensure appropriate use of NHS resources.
- Maintain high-quality records, reports and digital systems that support governance, assurance and audit requirements.
- Work closely with pharmacists, clinicians, finance teams and providers to resolve queries and support effective decision-making.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of medicines approval processes, digital tools and reporting systems across the organisation.
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