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Community Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician
NHS AfC: Band 5
Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent: and secondment Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week Job ref 349-LCO-7257082*
Site Manchester Community Town Manchester Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 10/07/2025 23:59
Job overview
Community medicines optimisation pharmacy technician
(permanent and secondment posts)
Case Management
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join the pharmacy team working within Manchester and Trafford Local Care Organisation (LCO) as part of MFT
Case management proactively supports people at high risk of hospital admission to remain at home. The service brings together the skills and expertise of GPs, nurses, mental health practitioners, social workers, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and wellbeing advisers to provide intensive and flexible support to people who are struggling to stay healthy, safe and well.
We are looking for a General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registered pharmacy technician with substantial experience of working within primary or secondary care. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide medicines support and positively contribute to patient care. You should be confident in the ability to work independently with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills. You will also need to be able to have access to a car for work purposes.
The successful candidates will become an integral part of the well supported and award-winning community medicines optimisation service (CMOS) providing a patient facing pharmaceutical service, working closely with the wider pharmacy teams and other services across MFT.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacy Technician is responsible for providing technical input as part of the pharmaceutical support to the Case Management Service. Domiciliary visits to patients for medicines optimisation interventions is a key feature of this role as well as multidisciplinary team (MDT) working. Other areas include:
Support the delivery of medicines optimisation to the Case Management Service
Support pharmacists to establish safe working arrangements for medicines in the Community Medicines Optimisation Service
Assist in the development and implementation of pharmaceutical care plans
Liaise with pharmacists, technicians and other health care professionals in secondary and primary care to ensure continuity of care on patient transfer.
Carry out medication reviews with patients in area of clinical competence
Identify and act on medication errors/queries within area of competence, reporting complex issues to a medicines optimisation pharmacist as appropriate.
Assist in the management of prescribing across primary care
Provide support to other CMOS workstreams as necessary.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk .
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Registration & Qualification
* Registration with GPhC
Qualifications
* Pharmacy Technician - BTEC in Pharmecutical Sciences or equivalent
Experience
* A significant amount of experience working as a pharmacy technician in hospital or community pharmacy
* Experience of implementing change and new developments
* Experience of Audit
* Experience of training healthcare professionals/unqualified staff
* Experience of working in a hospital as a ward based technician
* Experience of working within Primary Care
* Experience of undertaking home visits
* Experience with EMIS
Knowledge
* Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
* Report writing skills
* Assessment planning and evaluation skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Rebecca Angell Job title Senior pharmacist Email address Rebecca.Angell@mft.nhs.uk Additional information
For further details and to discuss the role please contact:
· Rebecca Angell, Senior Pharmacist, CMOS
Rebecca.Angell@mft.nhs.uk
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