Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (Secondment available)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 350-TWS7256374
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medicines Management Building, Maghull Health Park
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 08/07/2025
Employer heading
Higher Level Pharmacy Technician Dispensary
Band 5
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
This post is fixed term for 9 months.
For full information regarding responsibilities, required qualifications and experience please refer to the job description and person specification.
The post-holder will be obliged to participate in our seven day medicines supply service in line with the hours of operation.
Main duties of the job
Will participate in the medicines management 7-day supply service. The post holder will focus on delivering quality care to service users through the implementation of an efficient medicines management system, and in delivering the medicines optimisation strategy. The post holder will provide a service with a particular emphasis on the technical aspects of medicines management including dispensing, final accuracy checking, issuing and stock control of medicines, as well as medicines safety, supply and audit work. The post holder will be expected to work flexibly in line with the hours of operation.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1.To accurately and efficiently supply medication within Mersey Care’s frameworks.
2.To dispense and/or final accuracy check medicines, including high risk medicines, including cytotoxic medicines, clinical trial medicines, controlled drugs and unlicensed medicines, in accordance with departmental, regional and national standard operating procedures.
3.To support monitoring the use of controlled drugs and highlight any concerns to the CDAO.
4.To ensure that medication is dispensed, and final accuracy checked to meet agreed delivery times, and to minimise waiting times.
5.Where appropriate, to prioritise prescriptions in line with departmental procedures, ensuring that ward/clinic staff are informed of any delay.
6.To dispense and/or final accuracy check compliance aids, including blister packs, in line with departmental procedures.
7.To provide technical information relating to medicines management services to doctors, nurses and other health professionals.
8.To provide advice to service users and/or carers about medicines in an understandable and sympathetic manner.
9.To liaise with relevant staff with regard to prescription interventions, e.g., missing details or unclear prescriptions or medication out of stock.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and BTEC level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science, or equivalent qualification with appropriate underpinning knowledge
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician
- Technical Accuracy Checking Qualification
Desirable criteria
- NVQ A1 workplace assessor (or willingness to work towards)
- Relevant medicines management qualification or accreditation, or willingness to work towards; or equivalent experience
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to train others
- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Demonstrable experience of dispensing & accuracy checking
- Experience of using electronic medicines management systems, including oversight of stock levels
- Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self- development and CPD
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable post qualification hospital pharmacy experience
- Experience of working on wards
- Experience of working within an NHS organisation
- Experience of supervising staff within a technical area of pharmacy services
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to multitask and change from one job to another frequently, working both independently and as part of a team
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative
- Excellent communication skills: – written – verbal – listening
- Good IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
- Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
- Professional manner
- Ability to travel between different sites
- Customer care skills
- To receive & manage telephone calls
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tasmin Goff
- Job title
- Pharmacy Technician Team Manager - Dispensary
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 250 6061
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