Senior Medicines Value Pharmacy Technician

Job overview

Band 6 Senior Medicines Value Pharmacy Technician

Are you a Pharmacy Technician with a passion for medicines optimisation and making every pound count for patients and the NHS?

We’re looking for a Band 6 Senior Medicines Management and Medicines Value Pharmacy Technician to support our medicines value programme, focusing on high-cost drugs, biosimilars, and cost-effective prescribing. This is a new post that will help deliver value for money in medicines prescribing.

In this role, you will:

• Provide technical expertise to medicines optimisation and switch projects.
• Monitor adherence to pathways, protocols, and formulary choices.
• Maintain accurate switch tracking systems and ensure robust data reporting.
• Act as the first point of contact for the biosimilar patient helpline.
• Work with prescribers and pharmacy teams to resolve medicines supply or usage issues.
• Contribute to audits, assurance returns, and governance reports.
• Support the development of operational policies to improve efficiency and safety.

You’ll need to be a GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technician with strong organisational, problem-solving, and communication skills.

This is a fantastic opportunity to take on a leadership role in medicines management, combining technical expertise, data, governance, and patient support to improve outcomes and deliver value.

For an informal chat about the role, please get in touch with Grant Sugiura (Associate Chief Pharmacist) [email protected]

Main duties of the job

You will play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred medicines management services across the Trust. Working closely with senior pharmacists and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will:

• To work collaboratively with pharmacists and the wider medicines optimisation team to deliver safe, effective, and value-based use of medicines across the Trust.
• To coordinate governance and documentation processes for biosimilar switches and other medicines optimisation initiatives.
• To provide day-to-day operational leadership for the medicines value service, including managing patient support helplines, data systems, and audit activities.
• To contribute to service development by identifying opportunities for efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and quality improvement in medicines use.
• To line manage and develop a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician, ensuring high professional standards and personal growth.

This is a varied and rewarding post where you will combine your technical expertise with leadership, service improvement, and direct patient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the role.