Lister House Surgery
Pharmacy Technician

The closing date is 08 December 2026

Job summary
We're looking for a motivated and patient focused Pharmacy Technician to join our PCN Pharmacy team at Lister House Surgery. You'll play an important role in supporting safe and effective prescribing, managing medication queries, and working collaboratively across the MDT to improve patient outcomes.

This is a great opportunity to contribute to a busy, forward-thinking practice serving a diverse community.

Main duties of the job

• Work as a part of the multidisciplinary team, supporting safe, effective and cost-effective prescribing.
• Support repeat prescriptions, helping to reduce medicines waste, inappropriate prescribing and polypharmacy.
• Manage medication supply and out-of-stock queries, liaising with community and hospital pharmacies.
• Undertake medicines reconciliation following hospital discharges and correspondence.
• Support medicines safety, including MHRA alerts, drug monitoring and medication audits.
• Help develop and update practice protocols, guidelines and procedures, maintaining accurate records.
• Provide training, mentoring and education to pharmacy administrators and the wider clinical team.
• Provide medicines advice and health education to patients and families and participate in the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway.

About us
We are a friendly GP practice with over 70 years of history, lead by a stable forward-thinking partnership that is ready to embrace the new look of Primary Care.

We have four sites and over 46,000 patients spread across the city of Derby.

We seek someone who is keen to become a part of a growing and supportive team and is looking to work in an ambitious practice.

In return, Lister House Surgery will offer you the following benefits:

• Generous holiday entitlement
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Access to a variety of NHS discounts
• Employee EAP well-being support
• Employee discounts

Details
Date posted: 10 November 2026
Pay scheme: Other
Salary: Depending on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: A5287-26-0045
Job locations: 207 St Thomas Road, Pear Tree, Derby, DE23 8RJ, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details regarding this post.

Person Specification
Experience

• Essential: Audit and quality improvement
• Essential: Proficient in use of Microsoft Office (including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook)
• Essential: Experience of working to Standard operating procedures
• Essential: Community or primary care /NHS experience
• Desirable: MDT working
• Desirable: Knowledge and experience of using SystmOne
• Desirable: Developing pathways or processes
• Desirable: Understanding of QOF, IIF and PCN DES
• Desirable: MHRA and CAS alerts
• Desirable: Understanding of Drug Monitoring and local relevant clinical and national guidance
• Desirable: Mentoring and education

Qualifications

• Essential: Qualified Pharmacy Technician

Other Requirements

• Essential: A car owner with a clean licence and appropriate insurance cover for business miles
• Essential: Registered with appropriate regulatory body

Personal Qualities

• Essential: Able to work collaboratively
• Essential: Maintain confidentiality
• Essential: Integrity
• Essential: Polite and approachable
• Essential: Able to work to deadlines
• Essential: Able to manage multiple streams of workload

Skills

• Essential: Organised and good time management
• Essential: Able to work systematically
• Essential: Interpersonal skills
• Essential: Excellent communication both written and verbal
• Essential: Clinical skills in supporting patients with their medication
• Essential: Ability to translate information and details accurately both verbally and written
• Desirable: Able to take BP and HR
• Desirable: Confidence to use own judgement, based on resourcefulness and local knowledge in response to patient queries

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.

Employer details
Employer name: Lister House Surgery
Address: 207 St Thomas Road, Pear Tree, Derby, DE23 8RJ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.listerhousesurgery.co.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: HR Department, ddicb.listerhr@nhs.net

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