• Job Description

  Req#: A0430-25-0031?language=en&page=592&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Wakefield North Primary Care Network is looking to recruit an additional Pharmacy Technician to join our existing team. The current team have built excellent working relationships between themselves and colleagues across the PCN, practices and colleagues from other PCNs. This is an exciting time to join Primary Care and shape the future of patient care at the first points of contact.

  As a pharmacy technician you will be an integral part of the general practice team, working within your professional boundaries in each practice within the PCN. You will be working under the supervision of the PCN Clinical pharmacist(s) to ensure that patients receive safe, accurate and timely supply of their prescribed medication.

  Main duties of the job

  Providing technical support to the clinical pharmacists, practice GPs, nurses, HCAs and reception/administrative staff, and support the PCN and practices clinical teams with queries around medication from patients and medicine reconciliation following discharge from other care providers. Completing audits around patient safety in the prescribing of medication and present the information for sharing with the clinical team.

  The base for this role will be at Henry Moore Clinic, but working with all six practices within the PCN.

  About us

  We consist of six GP practices on the Eastern side of Wakefield District. Our practices are Henry Moore Clinic, Riverside Medical Centre, Tieve Tara Medical Centre, Station Lane Medical Centre, St Thomas Road Surgery and Newland Surgery.

  You will be part of our growing multi-disciplinary additional roles team, who all work together to support our GP practices and their patients. The roles currently include care coordinators, clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, paramedics, Health and wellbeing coaches, First Contact Physiotherapist, Social Prescribing Link Worker and nursing staff.

  Our PCN is committed to improving the care provided to our patients, reducing health inequalities and raising the standards and quality of our general practices.

  Details

  Date posted

  24 June 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  £26,870 to £31,707 a year Dependent on skills and experience

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  A0430-25-0031

  Job locations

  Henry Moore Clinic

  26 Smawthorne Lane

  Castleford

  West Yorkshire

  WF10 4EN

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details of the responsibilities of this role.

  Interviews will take place on Monday 11th August 2025.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details of the responsibilities of this role.

  Interviews will take place on Monday 11th August 2025.

  Person Specification

  Skills and Knowledge

  Essential

  • Excellent communication, demonstrating clear and polite verbal skills.
  • Strong IT skills, including MS Excel, Word and Outlook
  • Strong understanding of medicines legislation and ethics
  • Ability to work autonomously and as a team member with minimal supervision
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, adaptable and quick to make relationships with new teams
  • Excellent time management skills (including planning and management of tasks)
  • Problem solving & analytical skills
  • Ability to follow policy and procedure
  • Able to identify risk and appropriately escalate

  Desirable

  • Demonstrable skills in analysis and presenting prescribing activity data
  • SystmOne clinical system user

  Experience

  Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of working as a pharmacy technician
  • Working with the general public
  • Medicines management or dispensing role in the community or within a hospital setting

  Desirable

  • Working within a general practice or PCN
  • Knowledge of General Practice repeat prescribing systems
  • Policy and protocol development

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Educated to GCSE Mathematics & English (Grade C or above) level or equivalent
  • NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services or Equivalent
  • Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

  Desirable

  • Completion of CPPE primary care educational pathway

  Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • Polite and confident
  • Hard working, reliable, honest, pleasant and approachable
  • Motivated, flexible and forward thinker
  • High levels of integrity
  • Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Holds a full driving licence and access to a vehicle to drive around the PCN

  Person Specification

  Skills and Knowledge

  Essential

  • Excellent communication, demonstrating clear and polite verbal skills.
  • Strong IT skills, including MS Excel, Word and Outlook
  • Strong understanding of medicines legislation and ethics
  • Ability to work autonomously and as a team member with minimal supervision
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, adaptable and quick to make relationships with new teams
  • Excellent time management skills (including planning and management of tasks)
  • Problem solving & analytical skills
  • Ability to follow policy and procedure
  • Able to identify risk and appropriately escalate

  Desirable

  • Demonstrable skills in analysis and presenting prescribing activity data
  • SystmOne clinical system user

  Experience

  Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of working as a pharmacy technician
  • Working with the general public
  • Medicines management or dispensing role in the community or within a hospital setting

  Desirable

  • Working within a general practice or PCN
  • Knowledge of General Practice repeat prescribing systems
  • Policy and protocol development

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Educated to GCSE Mathematics & English (Grade C or above) level or equivalent
  • NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services or Equivalent
  • Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

  Desirable

  • Completion of CPPE primary care educational pathway

  Personal Qualities

  Essential

  • Polite and confident
  • Hard working, reliable, honest, pleasant and approachable
  • Motivated, flexible and forward thinker
  • High levels of integrity
  • Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Holds a full driving licence and access to a vehicle to drive around the PCN

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Conexus Healthcare CIC

  Address

  Henry Moore Clinic

  26 Smawthorne Lane

  Castleford

  West Yorkshire

  WF10 4EN

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://conexus-healthcare.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Conexus Healthcare CIC

  Address

  Henry Moore Clinic

  26 Smawthorne Lane

  Castleford

  West Yorkshire

  WF10 4EN

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://conexus-healthcare.org/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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