Rotational Pharmacy Technician | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the North West is inviting applications for a Pharmacy Technician role. This position offers a supportive environment and opportunities for training and career progression. Candidates should be newly qualified or pending qualification under NVQ 3 training, with the flexibility to participate in a seven-day service. Join a team committed to delivering outstanding pharmacy services while upholding values of continuous improvement and responsibility.

Benefits

Professional growth opportunities

Supportive team environment

Flexible working requests considered

Qualifications

• Experience in a hospital or community pharmacy setting preferred but not essential.
• Willingness to undertake training for final accuracy checking of dispensed prescriptions.
• Ability to participate in a seven-day pharmacy service.

Responsibilities

• Complete accurate drug histories and medicines reconciliation.
• Provide a seven-day pharmacy service with weekend/bank holiday rota.
• Participate in relevant training for skill development.

Skills

Pharmacy technician experience

Medicine reconciliation

Patient care

Education

Pending qualification/completion of NVQ 3 training

Job description

Overview

We are inviting applicants to interview and will accept applications from those with pending qualification/completion of NVQ 3 training.

Are you a newly qualified or skilled and experienced Pharmacy technician, ready to take the next step in your career? If yes, we invite you to join our dynamic, innovative, and person-centred team delivering outstanding pharmacy services.

This is a rotational role giving you a wealth of opportunity to gain experience whilst working across inpatient clinical and technical services. You will work in a supportive environment where you will receive training and gain the skills required to support you in your career development.

At Mersey Care, we are committed to our CARES values (continuous improvement, accountability, respect, enthusiasm, support). If you share these, we’d love to hear from you.

Why choose us?

Professional growth; supporting continuous learning and career development. 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.

About Mersey Care

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.

Responsibilities

• This role includes relevant training required to develop within the role; if needed, you will undertake training provided to equip you with the skills to carry out final accuracy checking of dispensed prescriptions.
• Comprehensive in-house medicines reconciliation training; following successful training and demonstration of agreed medicines optimisation competencies, you will complete accurate drug histories and medicines reconciliation of patients’ medication and assess medicines for usability at ward level.
• You will participate in the provision of a seven-day pharmacy service, including a rota for weekends/bank holidays.
• Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Qualifications

• Pending qualification/completion of NVQ 3 training is acceptable at application.
• Previous experience of working as a pharmacy technician in a hospital or community pharmacy setting is preferred, but not essential.
• We welcome applications from newly qualified pharmacy technicians or those who are due to qualify and join the GPhC register as a pharmacy technician.
• We operate within our CARES values (continuous improvement, accountability, respect, enthusiasm, support).

Additional information

Please refer to the job description and person specification for more details. Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. This advert closes on Sunday 5 Oct 2025.