{"id":2843055,"url":"https://alion.io/job/change-grow-live-pharmacy-technician","title":"Pharmacy Technician","company":{"id":1808834,"name":"Change Grow Live","domain":"changegrowlive.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/changegrowlive","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Field & Service","role_family":"Field & Service","seniority":"junior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Washington, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":39000,"max_usd":69000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":7889},"experience_years_min":2,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Incident Management","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Excel","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-19T09:52:45Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-19","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T06:11:28Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"Overview\nPharmacy Technician\nSunderland | Fixed Term | Full Time\nBuild stronger pharmacy partnerships. Expand access. Improve health outcomes.\nChange Grow Live is a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to the lives of the people who use our services. We offer support and respect in a safe environment, treating every individual as unique and working alongside them to identify the treatment and care options that best meet their needs.\nOur core values are \"Be Open, Be Compassionate and Be Bold\", and our team members demonstrate these values every day to help people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to their full potential.\nWe have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join Sunderland.\nThe role will support healthcare and operational colleagues to maximise the contribution of community pharmacies, enhance the quality of pharmacy-delivered interventions, and promote the safe and effective use of medicines for people accessing our services. The successful candidate will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and have experience in medicines management, harm reduction, partnership working, and improving outcomes for service users.\nYou will focus on developing and maintaining effective partnerships with community pharmacies and other stakeholders, supporting the delivery of supervised consumption, needle exchange, naloxone provision, and other pharmacy-based interventions. The successful candidate will act as the key pharmacy link across Sunderland, supporting community pharmacy engagement, medicines governance, service development, data analysis, audit activity, training delivery, and incident management.\nThis role will require regular travel across the designated area to visit operational services, community pharmacies, and partner organisations.\nDetails\nLocation: Sunderland, with flexibility to work across local operational sitesHours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week\nContract Type: Fixed Term Contract until 30 June 2028\nPlease note: Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and any associated payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.\nResponsibilities\nAbout the role:\nAct as the primary point of contact for community pharmacy contractors and the LPC, ensuring regular, high-quality communication with these partners.\nAttend meetings with the LPC and Controlled Drugs Local Intelligence Network (CDLIN) as required.\nPromote the work of Change Grow Live across the Service, maximising the use of community pharmacies to support positive health outcomes for service users. \nEnsure that community pharmacies are providing a range of interventions including supervised consumption, needle exchange, and naloxone.\nUse PharmOutcomes and other systems to collect, collate and analyse data.\nProvide specialist advice on medicines governance and the management of pharmaceutical products and controlled stationery in line with organisational policies and procedures.\nSupport the prescribing of cost-effective pharmacotherapies in line with best practice and organisational policies.\nProvide medicines-related advice and recommendations, within scope of practice and competency, to prescribers and other healthcare professionals.. This could include, but is not limited to, optimal prescribing doses, reviewing medication suitability (e.g. contra indications, interactions and cautions such as QT interval prolongation).\nSupport the response to relevant organisational directives and drug alerts overseen by the Central Pharmacy Team.\nDispense and administer medicines within onsite dispensaries, including under and Patient Group Directions (PGDs), where appropriate.\nProvide advice and oversight on the safe storage, handling, and management of medicines, pharmaceutical products, and controlled stationery.\nSupport staff training and development to ensure safe medicines management practices and compliance with organisational policies and procedures.\nMonitor stock management processes, including stock rotation, storage suitability, and adherence to health and safety requirements.\nEnsure controlled drugs and controlled stationery are stored, managed, and recorded securely in accordance with legal, regulatory, and organisational requirements.\nAbout you:\nGPhC-approved pharmacy technician course/qualification\nCurrent registration with GPhC \nAt least 2 years’ experience as a registered Pharmacy Technician.\nExperience of multi-agency working, with the ability to build effective partnerships across professional groups (e.g. mental health services, criminal justice agencies, and community groups) to achieve positive outcomes for service users.\nExperience working in an outcomes-focused environment, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and demands effectively.\nComputer literate with Microsoft packages; proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel.\nWhat we will give to you:\n25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Additionally, you'll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years, therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us. \nPaid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme \nContributory pension scheme \nSeveral benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc. \nA friendly and supportive team \nTraining, career development & progression opportunities \nGenerous Refer-a-Friend Scheme \nA note about using AI in your application\nAI can be a really helpful tool when putting together your application, and we're happy for you to use it. However, what we're most interested in is you.\nWe want to understand your experiences, achievements and strengths, so please make sure your application reflects your own story and clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria and the impact you've made in previous roles.\nThere's no need to write in a particular style. The strongest applications are those that are authentic, specific and clearly demonstrate your skills, experience and potential. We look forward to learning more about you.\nDirect applications only - we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.\nWe reserve the right to close this opportunity early if we receive a high number of applications, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.\nHelp build pharmacy partnerships that make treatment easier to access and better connected across Sunderland.\nSalary Range (pro rata if part time)\nCGL points 30 to 34 (£35,069.56 - £39,129.53)ILW / OLW /Fringe\nN/A - Outside London Weighting AreaInterview Date\n16/11/2026Closing Date\n5/11/2026If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details:\nDaniel Banks |  | 07443767659This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6938,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Pharmacies"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-19T09:52:45Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":53,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.707,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":9,"expected_fill_days":11,"reasons":["conf:3","win:late","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/change-grow-live-pharmacy-technician","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/change-grow-live-pharmacy-technician.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T07:44:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11775,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1808834},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1808834"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fchange-grow-live-pharmacy-technician"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fchange-grow-live-pharmacy-technician"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fchange-grow-live-pharmacy-technician"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/change-grow-live-pharmacy-technician\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fchange-grow-live-pharmacy-technician"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2843055}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"changegrowlive.org","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2843055},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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