# Senior Pharmacy Technician – homecare services > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-pharmacy-technician-homecare-services/44a3ff00-f36f-4d8c-8f50-43e10abf78fe - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-pharmacy-technician-homecare-services/44a3ff00-f36f-4d8c-8f50-43e10abf78fe.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** Walsall - **Region:** Midlands - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacy technician - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Job share, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-16T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-02T09:31:28.698Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Walsall/Walsall_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Pharmacy_Technician/Pharmacy_Technician-v8014842 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8014842?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.walsallhealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The post holder will play an integral role in supporting the Lead Homecare Pharmacist and Lead Pharmacist of Medicines Formulary and High-Cost Drugs to ensure the timely, safe, and efficient delivery of a high-quality, patient-focused homecare medicines service whilst also supporting medicines optimisation across the Trust. PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS. ### Main duties of the job Support and work closely with the Lead Homecare Pharmacist to deliver a safe, high-quality pharmacy homecare service in line with national standards and policies. Manage and coordinate day-to-day homecare operations, including staff supervision, workload organisation, resolving medication/service issues, and maintaining high patient care standards. Act as a key contact between the Trust, homecare providers, pharmacists, clinical teams, suppliers, and patients, handling queries and supporting communication across services. Contribute to service improvement through developing procedures, monitoring KPIs, handling complaints/incidents, producing reports, and participating in audits, reviews, and meetings. Support staff training, recruitment, and development, while also assisting with medication coordination, ordering, and accuracy checking to ensure timely patient treatment. Support medicines optimisation by carrying out audits, producing reports and participating in service review to improve patient care and efficiency ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Support and work closely with the Lead Homecare Pharmacist to deliver a safe, high-quality pharmacy homecare service in line with national standards and policies. Manage and coordinate day-to-day homecare operations, including staff supervision, workload organisation, resolving medication/service issues, and maintaining high patient care standards. Act as a key contact between the Trust, homecare providers, pharmacists, clinical teams, suppliers, and patients, handling queries and supporting communication across services. Contribute to service improvement through developing procedures, monitoring KPIs, handling complaints/incidents, producing reports, and participating in audits, reviews, and meetings. Support staff training, recruitment, and development, while also assisting with medication coordination, ordering, and accuracy checking to ensure timely patient treatment. Support medicines optimisation by carrying out audits, producing reports and participating in service review to improve patient care and efficiency ## Job Details The post holder will play an integral role in supporting the Lead Homecare Pharmacist and Lead Pharmacist of Medicines Formulary and High-Cost Drugs to ensure the timely, safe, and efficient delivery of a high-quality, patient-focused homecare medicines service whilst also supporting medicines optimisation across the Trust. PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS. ## Job Description Support and work closely with the Lead Homecare Pharmacist to deliver a safe, high-quality pharmacy homecare service in line with national standards and policies. Manage and coordinate day-to-day homecare operations, including staff supervision, workload organisation, resolving medication/service issues, and maintaining high patient care standards. Act as a key contact between the Trust, homecare providers, pharmacists, clinical teams, suppliers, and patients, handling queries and supporting communication across services. Contribute to service improvement through developing procedures, monitoring KPIs, handling complaints/incidents, producing reports, and participating in audits, reviews, and meetings. Support staff training, recruitment, and development, while also assisting with medication coordination, ordering, and accuracy checking to ensure timely patient treatment. Support medicines optimisation by carrying out audits, producing reports and participating in service review to improve patient care and efficiency ## Responsibilities Support and work closely with the Lead Homecare Pharmacist to deliver a safe, high-quality pharmacy homecare service in line with national standards and policies. Manage and coordinate day-to-day homecare operations, including staff supervision, workload organisation, resolving medication/service issues, and maintaining high patient care standards. Act as a key contact between the Trust, homecare providers, pharmacists, clinical teams, suppliers, and patients, handling queries and supporting communication across services. Contribute to service improvement through developing procedures, monitoring KPIs, handling complaints/incidents, producing reports, and participating in audits, reviews, and meetings. Support staff training, recruitment, and development, while also assisting with medication coordination, ordering, and accuracy checking to ensure timely patient treatment. Support medicines optimisation by carrying out audits, producing reports and participating in service review to improve patient care and efficiency ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Ability to analyse and resolve highly complex situations and provide expert advice when required - Good interpersonal skills, confident and assertive when working with other professionals with the ability to work quickly, calmly and accurately under pressure - Ability to develop, train, lead and motivate a team - Ability to develop new innovations for pharmacy/homecare-related services/high cost and formulary **Desirable** - IT literacy ### Experience **Essential** - Experience in writing and implementing departmental SOPs - Experience working within homecare services or high cost drugs - Experience of day-to-day management of staff, prioritising, co-ordinating an planning workload - Experience in service development **Desirable** - Experienced at undertaking audits and developing action plans. ### Qualifications **Essential** - NVQ3, BTEC or equivalent in pharmaceutical science - Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council - Holds accreditation for checking prescriptions ## Documents - [flexible working document (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2426) - [senior pharmacy technician for homecare services and medicines optimisation - jd (pdf, 767.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10300752) - [senior pharmacy technician for homecare services and medicines optimisation - ps (pdf, 491.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10300753) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.