Lead Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Optimisation

Integrated Care System; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a proactive Pharmacy Technician to join its Medication Governance Team. This role involves leading medicines optimisation initiatives, providing specialist management advice, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient care and ensure compliance with governance standards. This is an opportunity to contribute to a diverse and innovative hospital pharmacy service dedicated to improving patients' lives.

Qualifications

• Experience in a hospital pharmacy setting.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development.
• Familiarity with medicines governance processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead medication optimisation strategies within the pharmacy.
• Support pharmacy standards across teams.
• Communicate medicines governance standards effectively.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Analytical Skills

Change Management

Education

NVQ3/BTEC Pharmaceutical Science

Accredited Checking Qualification

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Access

Job description

Great things are happening in our Hospital Pharmacy Services across University Hospitals Liverpool Group (UHLG). UHLG is one of largest and most complex NHS organisations in the UK, serving a large, diverse and deprived population.

Following a successful business case, we're expanding our services at Liverpool Women's Hospital (LWH) - and we're thrilled to offer several new roles to support our passionate and dedicated pharmacy teams across UHLG.

A new and exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic, proactive and ambitious registered Pharmacy Technician to join our growing Medication Governance Team at UHLG to promote and improve medicines optimisation across the Group.

Reporting primarily to the Lead Pharmacist for Medicines Optimisation this role involves actively supporting optimal medicines use.

Working with all levels of the multidisciplinary team, pharmacy staff and medicines management leads to ensure that policies and guidelines meet required document standards and are useable in practice.

This is a great time to join the Pharmacy and wider Medicines Governance Team at UHLG with our ambition to deliver great care as we continue our improvement journey and partnership working for the benefits of the patients of Liverpool and beyond.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

Lead in delivering all aspects of the medication optimisation agenda across UHLG in areas identified by the Lead Pharmacist Medicines Optimisation.

Lead the development and implementation of strategies and frameworks to ensure that medicines management and document governance standards are applied consistently across UHLG.

Provide specialist medicines management advice, support and guidance to all healthcare professionals and in doing so promote high standards of care and embedding a strong medicines governance culture at UHLG.

About us

Liverpool Women's NHS FT became part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group (UHLG) in November 2024, following the coming together with Liverpool University Hospitals NHS FT. UHLG was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide to our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues who are dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, UHLG is also their local NHS, providing general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

At Liverpool Women's Hospital, each year we deliver approximately 7,500 babies, carry out around 50,000 gynaecological inpatient and outpatient procedures, care for over 1,000 poorly and premature newborns, perform around 1,000 IVF cycles, and conduct over 4,000 genetic appointments.

We believe that this, along with a strong dedication to research and innovation, makes usthespecialist health provider of choice in Europe for women, babies and families.

Job responsibilities

Pro-activelyidentify governance/risk management issues relating to medicine management within both the pharmacy department and across UHLG.

Support the pharmacy department in the achievement of governance and medicines management standards and UHLG document standards.

Communicate effectively with a wide range of staff/healthcare professionals to ensure awareness of medicines governance and document standards.

Develop education and training material and support delivery of training to increase the capability of staff workforce to enable and encourage best practice behaviour both within pharmacy and wider divisional multidisciplinary teams across the organisation.

Design, undertake and support the implementation of actions and tests of change arising from audit and research and ensure monitoring in place to completion/impact assessment

Ensure that pharmacy related complaints are responded to in line with departmental processes and Group Policy

For full details, please refer to the attached JD

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NVQ3/BTEC Pharmaceutical Science
• Accredited Checking Qualification

Experience

• Ward-based and/or dispensary-based hospital pharmacy experience
• Working in multi-disciplinary teams
• Demonstrable commitment to continuing professional development/education
• Experience of writing and reviewing medicines-related documents
• Experience of developing and delivering education and training
• Previous knowledge and experience of medicines governance processes

Knowledge & Skills

• Working knowledge of the role of Medicines Clinical Effectiveness Group/Drug & Therapeutics Committee/Equivalent
• Ability to work on own initiative or as part of a team
• Self-motivating and able to motivate/inspire others
• Ability to prioritise appropriately
• Ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines
• Ability to effect and manage change
• Microsoft Computer Package including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access
• Flexible approach to working across teams
• Excellent organisational ability
• Ability to deal with frequent interruptions
• Ability to concentrate continuously for long periods
• Ability to work in a busy office environment
• Ability to plan their days/weeks to achieve set objectives
• Knowledge and experience of medicines-related audit
• Knowledge and experience of quality improvement methodologies and implementation of change
• Analytical and data manipulation skills
• Experience of coaching conversations/provided psychological staff support
• Good understanding of NHS structure
• Experience of project work/management
• Knowledge of Risk Management Issues
• Knowledge of Trust policies relevant to the post including medicines policy, incident reporting, information governance, data protection, equality and diversity, and health and safety

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.