Higher Level Pharmacy Technician - Clinical Services

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the North West is seeking experienced Registered Pharmacy Technicians to join their Medicines Management clinical team. Successful candidates will support patient care, assist in medicines management processes, and work within a dynamic team delivering high-quality clinical pharmacy services across Secure and Acute mental health services. The role requires flexibility in working hours and travel between sites. If you are forward-thinking and committed to improving patient care, we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits

Professional growth opportunities

Supportive working environment

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Proven post-registration experience in ward-based medicines management.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Support patient care with medicines management.
• Assist with medicines reconciliations and timely discharges.
• Complete audits and provide training to nursing staff.

Skills

Ward-based medicines management

Autonomous working

Team collaboration

Training and education

Education

Registered Pharmacy Technician

Job description

About the role

Are you a skilled and registered Pharmacy Technician with proven post-registration experience of ward-based medicines management? Are you ready to take the next steps in your career and elevate your technical and clinical knowledge across a range of services? Why not consider mental health?

If you are forward thinking, enthusiastic and self-motivated and want to be part of a positive change, come and join our dynamic, innovative, and person-centred team delivering outstanding clinical pharmacy services.

What we offer

• Specialist services: we provide a pharmacy service across Secure and Acute mental health services.
• Professional growth; support continuous learning and career development through our education and training department.
• Our supportive environment: The friendly and multiskilled team are here ready to support you on your journey in a rewarding role.

As a department we are embracing the Trust's ambition to digitally transform our services and have introduced new initiatives to support this.

Please feel free to get in touch to organise a visit to our department, or for any questions you may have.

At the heart of everything we do are our values (continuous improvement, accountability, respect, enthusiasm, support). If you share these and you’re ready to make a genuine impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. We have exciting opportunities for experienced Registered Pharmacy Technicians to join our Medicines Management clinical team. Our team covers sites across Secure and Acute services. We have a number of opportunities across our services. Flexibility in working rotas and travel will be required to support the needs of the service.

You will have the opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting patient care and assisting with medicines reconciliations and timely discharge processes for patients with complex mental illnesses and learning disabilities. You will assist nursing staff with medicines management processes, completing audits and providing training and education. You will work autonomously and within a thriving and well-developed team to promote and provide a safe, efficient, and cost-effective pharmaceutical service. To maintain Technicians' competencies and to continue to develop your skills, there is a requirement to provide some support to our dispensary services on a rota basis.

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.