Band 6 £39,959-48,117 (pro-rata)
15 hours per week
Permanent
Dewsbury Health Centre
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated pharmacy technician to join our friendly, established Specialist Services Medicines Optimisation Team. You will play a key role in supporting the safe, effective use of medicines across the organisation, helping to drive improvements in quality, safety, and patient care.
Working with the team, you will support the development and implementation of medicines policies, lead on Patient Group Directions (PGDs), formulary development, procurement, and compliance with medicines standards. You will also undertake service assurance visits across our services, identify risks, and support teams to improve medicines practice.
We are looking for a registered pharmacy technician with relevant experience including a strong knowledge of medicines optimisation and legislation (particularly around Patient Group Directions), and the ability to apply this within a community healthcare setting. You will be self‑motivated, organised, and passionate about improving patient care.
About us
Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.
We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.
Locala is a Disability Confident employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process.
Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:-
- Flexible working – We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work‑life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
- Generous pension We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
- Refer a Friend Scheme – If you know a friend or family member who works at Locala on a substantive contract, you may be able to take advantage of our Refer a Friend Scheme. You both could receive a reward of £500 each, after you have successfully started your role with us.
Job responsibilities
For full details of the role and responsibilities please see the Job Description and Person Specification
Person Specification
Qualifications
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Experience
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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.
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