Pharmacy Homecare Lead Technician

Job description

Would you like to join a centre of excellence in rural and remote healthcare?

Main area Pharmacy Homecare - 201066 Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Secondment: 5 months Hours Part time - 30 hours per week (Working as part of a weekend rota, the department has a 7 day working pattern.) Job ref 262-A-26-8363771

Site CIC or WCH Town Whitehaven Salary £39,959 - £48,117 Per Annum, Pro Rata Salary period Yearly Closing 16/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

We are looking for a motivated individual to join the Pharmacy Homecare Team at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation (NCIC) Trust for a period of 5 months. This maternity cover post will provide direction and advice for Homecare team members of staff on the two hospital sites (CIC and WCH) to ensure operational continuity for the team, with the support of the Homecare Pharmacists.

The Homecare team provides services to a variety of clinical teams in the Trust to ensure the patients get an excellent quality and safe Homecare medicines delivery, working with a large number of Homecare providers across the UK. Homecare ensures the Trust and commissioners use best value services and work towards using cost-effective treatments and services as soon as they become available.

The job includes assisting the wider Pharmacy Department with Dispensary Accuracy checking, working on a Saturday, and other duties as required.

Main duties of the job

The Lead Homecare Technician works as part of a team, and the main duties are:

Assisting the Homecare Pharmacists to manage Homecare provider accounts, by arranging service meetings, keeping contact matrices up to date, facilitating new Service level agreements and Regional Homecare Framework call offs.

Homecare Prescription and Registration paperwork maintenance, and management of team electronic databases, including adding and maintaining Homecare products to the Pharmacy system.

Monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPI)and Workload figures to complete KPI and patient number monthly figures to enable the Team to keep commissioners and Senior Pharmacy staff appraised of Homecare workload and performance.

Supervising invoice management, including trouble-shooting query invoices and managing price updates and contract changes.

Line management of Homecare team members, including Health and Wellbeing and 1:1 meetings.

Maintaining Standard Operating Procedures.

Accuracy Checking rota and Weekend Working rota working.

Working for our organisation

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION :

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

CERTIFICATE OF SPONSORSHIP:

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligiblevacancies.

AHP - Return to Practice Job Advert information.This role may be suitable for individuals Returning to Practice. Please speak to the recruiting manager for more information.

Registered Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period.

Disclosure and Barring Service:

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.

The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £20.00 + Administration cost of £6.50 = £26.50. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

Enhanced Check: £41.00 + administration cost of £6.50 = £47.50. Deducted from salary over a 4 month period or a one-off payment.

NCIC can offer successful future employees the following benefits:

27-day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

NHS Discounts*

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*

Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

*Subject to eligibility

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Person specification

Qualifications

• BTec in Pharamceutical Services or equivalent
• NVQ3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent
• Registration with GPhC
• Final Accuracy Checking, or aseptic accuracy checking qualification, equivalent to NVQ4

Experience

• Relevant post-registration employment, including recent experience of provision of medicines via homecare
• Accuracy checking experience
• Presenting data in a variety of formats
• Supervisory experience
• Managing change
• Supervising and training staff

Skills and Aptitudes

• Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to make judgements based on incomplete or conflicting data
• Ability to manage time, people and resources
• Able to lead a team and motivate others
• Able to organise and prioritise workload
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Able to work accurately to deadlines
• Ability to identify and implement best practice
• Ability to identify and manage risk

Knowledge

• Continuing professional development with portfolio
• Broad technical and pharmaceutical knowledge
• GCP/GMP
• Current issues within pharmacy and the NHS
• Understanding of commissioning, budgets and tariff income
• Spreadsheet and database packages

Other requirements

• Commitment to continuing professional development
• Able to travel independently between sites.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name Fiona Spence Job title Pharmacist Lead - Homecare and Procurement Email address fiona.spence@ncic.nhs.uk Telephone number 01946523473

If you have problems applying, contact

Address South Parkhouse Building

Baron Way

Kingmoor Park

Carlisle

Cumbria

CA6 4SJ

Telephone 01228936281

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Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Whitehaven

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Salary indication

Between £39,959 and £48,117 Per Month

Published at

01-11-2026

Profession type

Health / Medical

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English