New job profile announced for pharmacy technicians under Agenda
for Change
The new job profile is the first to cover pharmacy technicians working in either primary or secondary care |
A list of all up-to-date job profiles for
pharmacy, including the new band 5 profile, is now available at
www.aptuk.org
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A new job profile that covers both primary and secondary care roles has been agreed for pharmacy technicians under the Agenda for Change pay system.
“No other profession has ever seen a job profile like this,” Darren
Leech, president of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK, told
Hospital Pharmacist. He explained how the new profile, set at band 5,
recognises that pharmacy technicians have a role in primary care trusts
as well as in secondary care, and follows months of negotiations with
trade unions and the Department of Health. “APTUK was aware of
pharmacy technicians working for PCTs who were finding it hard to get
their job description matched to previous profiles,” he said.
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We hope that this new profile will avoid the need for pharmacy technicians
to fill in long job analysis questionnaires and will cut the administrative
burden in PCTs, avoiding the lengthy appeals process. We now have a set
of profiles that cover just about all of the pharmacy workforce in the
NHS. We are still working on the development of a band 8 profile for
senior pharmacy technicians and hope to see a profile released in the
coming months.”
Mr Leech added that APTUK is currently performing an audit to assess
national consistency of job-matching and hopes to publish the results
before the end of the year.
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Hospital Pharmacist