Higher Level Pharmacy Technician - Clinical Services

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in the UK seeks a Registered Pharmacy Technician to join their Medicines Management clinical team. The role involves supporting patient care in mental health settings, performing medicines reconciliations, and delivering training. Applicants must hold a valid BTEC accuracy checking qualification and be willing to work flexibly across various locations. This position aims to promote a supportive work environment with opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Continuous learning and career development

Supportive work environment

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Must have the ability to perform medicines reconciliation.
• Experience in a mental health setting is preferred.
• Willingness to work flexibly across different sites.

Responsibilities

• Perform medicines reconciliation for patients.
• Support timely discharge processes for patients.
• Assist nursing staff with medicines management.

Skills

Accuracy checking skills

Clinical knowledge

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

BTEC accuracy checking qualification

Job description

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.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, Are you a Pharmacy Technician 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 and want to be part of a positive change, come and join our friendly Medicines Management Team.
Why choose us?
· Specialist services: we provide a pharmacy service across and 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., We have an exciting opportunity for a Registered Pharmacy Technician to join our Medicines Management clinical team. Our team covers sites across Secure and Acute services. Though based at Hollins Park, 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. There will be an opportunity to assist nursing staff with medicines management, 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., 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
+ Performing medicines reconciliation, including assessing patient own drugs.
+ Developing and co-ordinating medication supply systems to meet the needs of patients.
+ Participating in the safe systems for the supply of medication to wards and community-based teams.
+ Performing final accuracy checking of dispensed prescriptions.
+ Supporting the supply of discharge and short-term leave medication at ward level.
+ Providing information to service users and their carers (where appropriate) about their medications in conjunction with the pharmacists.
+ Delivering training to a variety of Health Care Professionals.
+ Completing audits and reports for example Controlled drug audits, safe and secure storage of medication audits etc.
+ Education and training of junior technical and ward staff.
A current and valid BTEC accuracy checking qualification is required. The post-holder will be obliged to participate in our weekend and bank holiday rotas.
For full information regarding required qualifications and experience please refer to the job description and person specification.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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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.