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 NHS Trust in Liverpool is seeking proactive individuals to join their Medicines Management Team, focusing on mental health services. The role offers a chance to grow professionally and work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to enhance patient care and support services through innovative practices.

Benefits

Professional growth opportunities

Flexible working requests considered

Supportive multi-skilled team environment

Qualifications

• Ability to support nursing staff with medicines management.
• Competency in pharmacy practices and dispensary services.

Responsibilities

• Assist with medicines reconciliations and timely discharge processes.
• Complete audits and provide training and education.

Skills

Enthusiasm

Self-motivation

Teamwork

Job description

Are you looking for an opportunity to 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 come and join our friendly Medicines Management Team.

Why choose us?

• Specialist services: we currently have opportunities across 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.
• 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.

You will have the opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting patient care and assisting with medicines reconciliations and timely discharge processes. There will be an opportunity to assist nursing staff with medicines management, completing audits and providing training and education.

To maintain Pharmacy Technician 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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ruth Sharp Job title: Specialist Pharmacy Technician Manager - MH Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07562 733240

Eileen Ormrod

Specialist Pharmacy Technician Manager - Mental Health

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07387 064523