Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

NECS is seeking talented pharmacy technicians to join our friendly and supportive team. If you have a passion for delivering excellent medicines optimisation services to NHS, health, and social care organisations, we want to hear from you!

We are a friendly and enthusiastic team dedicated to improving patient care through medicines optimisation. We work with a range of NHS, health and social care organisations, focusing predominantly on providing excellent medicines support for patients in care homes and in receipt of domiciliary care support for their medicines.

We offer a role in a forward-thinking, innovative team with opportunities to deliver outstanding medicines optimisation support in care home settings, to domiciliary care providers and other health and social care settings. This position offers the chance to improve patient safety and quality of care and contribute to educational resources and training. You will enjoy a varied work agenda that supports high-quality, safe care for patients.

We are looking for an experienced pharmacy technician with a passion for patient care. The ideal candidate will be a caring, dedicated, reliable, and patient-focused professional. Excellent communication skills are essential, as you will need to interact effectively with healthcare professionals, patients, family members, and care staff. Additionally, you should be a self-motivated individual with the ability to plan and work flexibly, both independently and as part of a team.

Main duties of the job

Your key responsibilities will include ensuring the safe use of medicines in care homes and domiciliary care providers, auditing systems and processes for medicines management, developing recommendation reports and handling medicines queries from health and social care providers. You will support training needs in care homes and develop and deliver learning materials, provide expert medicines advice to colleagues and key stakeholders, including supporting with safeguarding concerns involving medicines, and foster integration across health and social care through medicines optimisation.

We offer hybrid working in this role meaning that the successful candidate can work from a mixture of locations including home, NECS offices and customer locations. Your working week is likely to include 2-3 days in care homes, with domiciliary care providers or other health and social care providers, 1-2 days working from home writing up reports, attending online meetings, and supporting queries, and 1-2 days in the NECS office in Middlesbrough, working alongside colleagues.

About us

At NECS we are proud to be part of the NHS family. We have a national footprint, with customers across the UK and abroad. Our customer base has diversified significantly, and we are now very pleased to be serving NHS providers as well as commissioners, NHS England, Local Authorities, General Practices and Primary Care Networks.

NECS combines specialist skills and expertise with scale and resilience to achieve results. We combine core NHS values with a sharp focus on customer care and a relentless pursuit of continuous improvement. We see ourselves as a key partner in the development, delivery and future success of the healthcare system.

Our people are the heart of our organisation. We strive to ensure they feel trusted, valued and empowered. Were passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that as well as an excellent benefits package including generous holidays and pension plus free car parking and access to NHS discounts.