Pharmacy Technician

Main area Pharmacy Team Grade NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 828-PROVIDE3957

Employer Provide CIC Employer type NHS Site Provide HQ Town Colchester Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 20/03/2026 23:59

Job Overview

We are looking for a Pharmacy Technician to work with the Pharmacy and Medicines team to support the facilitation, development, delivery and implementation of the Clinical Governance framework for Pharmacy and Medicines across the Provide Group

The candidate will support the implementation of the Pharmacy and Medicines workplan, supporting the Governance Lead to collate evidence and audit compliance across Pharmacy and Medicines on Clinical governance, assurance, risk management, medicines security, medicines safety and clinical audit

Main duties of the job

• The pharmacy technician will work as an integral member of the pharmacy team, supporting accurate medicines reconciliation for patients on the community inpatient wards
• Support the implementation of the pharmacy and medicines clinical audit programme, support medicines safety issues identified via assurance visits or other methods e.g Datix analysis, ensuring compliance against all standards, supporting evidence gathering and actions required to mitigate risk where appropriate.

Support the Head of Pharmacy and Medicines to gather and collate evidence to provide assurance on regulatory requirements including CQC, Quality Accounts, Pharmacy and Medicines Assurance frameworks, Security and Audit

Support the delivery of quality improvement methodologies relating to pharmacy and medicines across services where this is considered to be beneficial to optimal service delivery

Deputise for the Governance Lead Pharmacy and Medicines as and when required

Working for our organisation

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A Highly Respected, Award Winning Health And Social Care Provider. We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times

Vision:

Transforming Lives

Values: Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission: An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men’s Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see the attached job description for a full and comprehensive list of the job description. Thank you for your interest in working with Provide.

Person specification

Pharmacy experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum 3 years experience as a Pharmacy technician
• Evidence of Pharmacy technician registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Post graduate qualification
• Evidence of working in risk and governance
  
  

Evidence of Audit and report writing experience

Essential criteria

• Audit experience

Report writing

Desirable criteria

• Registered Pharmacy Technincian
  
  

Further Information

How will we contact you?

• All correspondence for this post will be by email or text messaging. Please register for text messages on your TRAC account. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly to ensure that email filters are set to allow our mails.
• As we often have many applicants for jobs at Provide, we regret that we will only be able to contact those external applicants who are shortlisted for interview. Therefore if you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Internal candidates who are unsuccessful can seek feedback from the recruiting manager.
• If you wish to contact the Recruitment Team, please do this via provide.recruitment1@nhs.net
• If you wish to contact the Recruiting Manager about the vacancy/role or for feedback after interview, their details are provided within the advert.
  
  

Checking progress on your application?

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Closing Date

Provide reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time or bring forward the closing date should it have an overwhelming response. We therefore encourage an early application to ensure consideration for this post.

Professional UK clinical registration required for the role?

If we require you to hold UK professional clinical registration to undertake a role we appoint you to, Provide will pay for your registration during the first year of your employment.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Provide CIC continues to encourage all colleagues to ensure they have been double vaccinated and received a booster vaccination.

We recognise taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, service users, customers, fellow colleagues, and their families.

Anti Fraud

Our staff have been trained in 'Anti-Fraud' and will use technology to examine identity/immigration documents.

Disability

If you have a disability and need assistance or more time to complete your application or attending interview, please contact a member of the HR Services Team on 0300 3030 2661 or provide.recruitment1@nhs.net.

Work Trials

Please check with your local Job Centre Plus to see if you are eligible for a Work Trial. If you are interested in trying this job first, please contact the HR Services team and we can help you make the arrangements with the Job Centre and the Recruiting Manager.

We are committed to equal opportunities, flexible working practices and the National Living Wage.

Successful Applicant

You will be required to bring all your documentation to your interview to show the recruiting manager and again at your pre-employment appointment with the Recruitment Co-Ordinators.

The information that you provide will be treated confidentially. If you fail to provide all of the information, Provide may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations.