Job overview

Due to service expansion we have a number of new posts available for registered Pharmacy Technicians in our Integrated Clinical Pharmacy services. The roles all involve a lot of patient contact with the aim of helping people meet their health goals with their medicines and draw on the full range of skills a Pharmacy Technician has; our ideal candidate enjoys talking to and helping people, works well in a team and gets job satisfaction from making a difference to their patients. We encourage innovation and ideas in our team and are always exploring new ways of working, we invest in a learning culture and in the wellbeing of our staff.

One of the posts will rotate between primary and secondary care, others are based in a GP practice or our award winning pharmacy hub in Gosforth; all of the roles are well supported by other senior Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacists and GP practice teams and we welcome applications from people who haven’t worked in primary care before or recently qualified. The roles are all eligible for the fully funded CPPE primary care education pathway and we have a proven track record of providing post holders with the study time, support and supervision needed to complete it over 15 months.

Prospective candidates are encouraged to call or visit us to find out more about .

• Interview Date 16/06/2023
• Full & Part Time Hours/Week

Main duties of the job

Work with the multidisciplinary team(s) to:

• resolve medicine related problems for patients such as stock unavailability, adherence support, alternative formulations in swallowing difficulties.
• monitor safety and efficacy of medicines.
• support patients practically to manage their long term conditions with lifestyle and medicines advice in line with outcome frameworks such as the NHS England Network DES and IIF.
• support structured medication reviews and, after appropriate training, conducting non-complex medication review.
• answer questions about medicines, prescriptions and transfer of care from patients, colleagues in the hospital, general practice and community pharmacy.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.