Specialist Pharmacy Technician - Healthcare at Home & Community

Are you an experienced Pharmacy Technician looking for your next challenge within an Outstanding CQC rated Community Trust?

Do you have a passion for delivering high-quality pharmaceutical care to patients with long-term conditions, frailty, and complex medication needs? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

We are seeking a Band 6 Specialist Pharmacy Technician to provide patient-centred medicines optimisation and management across Community Services in Luton and Bedfordshire. This role focuses on supporting patients with long term conditions, frailty, and complex polypharmacy to achieve the best possible outcomes from their medicines.

You Will Have

• Current GPhC registration as a Pharmacy Technician
• Significant experience in medicines management, with an understanding of its application in community settings
• Broad pharmaceutical knowledge
• Knowledge of pharmacy legislation and medicines-related regulations
• Strong clinical reasoning and decision-making skills

What We Offer

• Flexible working opportunities
• Excellent NHS and Trust-specific benefits
• A supportive, innovative Trust rated highly by both the CQC and our staff
• Opportunities to influence and shape service development
• Ongoing support for professional and career development

Apply today and join EEC in making a difference to patients across our communities.

'Should we receive a high number of applications we reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point after 06/07/2026'

Job Purpose

To improve patient outcomes through safe and effective use of medicines, reducing medicines-related harm and avoidable admissions, and supporting reduction in medicines waste.

To work autonomously with a defined caseload, undertaking home visits, discussing medicines with patients during clinic visits, and supporting the multidisciplinary team (MDT), escalating complex issues appropriately to the Specialist Pharmacist – Healthcare at Home or Service Lead as appropriate.

To provide structured support within specialist clinics such as tuberculosis (TB) services, supporting directly observed therapy (DOT), monitoring adherence to anti-tuberculous regimens, and contributing to MDT management of complex infectious disease pathways.

To supervise medicines adherence, and to provide training and guidance as appropriate to encourage patients to take ownership and manage their medicines.

To communicate clear and accurate medicine related information, both verbal and written to patients/carers and other health professionals.

To promote effective medicines management, escalating poor practice and medication concerns as well as sharing best practice.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.

There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.

If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Portia Jackson Job title: Deputy Chief Pharmacist Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 07790 348287