Senior Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Safety

Liverpool University Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join the Medicines Safety, Optimisation and Governance Team. You will lead on improving controlled drugs/storage standards and provide specialist advice to multidisciplinary teams to enhance medicines management across the Trust.

Extensive hospital pharmacy experience is essential. The role focuses on audits, safety reporting, and developing systems to ensure best practice and patient safety throughout LUHFT.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences (or equivalent).
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Accredited accuracy checker.
• Extensive experience as a Pharmacy Technician in hospital pharmacy.

Responsibilities

• Lead for coordinating action to improve compliance with controlled drugs and medicines storage standards.
• Provide specialist safety and quality guidance across the Trust.
• Design, undertake audits and improvement projects; collect and analyse data.
• Support governance leads in recording and reporting safety incidents.

Skills

Communication skills

Leadership

Teamworking

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences

BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Job description

Job summary

*Previous applicants need not apply*

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and organised Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy Medicines Safety, Optimisation and Governance Team at LUHFT. This postholder will work within the pharmacy medicines safety team, taking lead responsibility for key aspects of the work programme to improve compliance with CD and medicines storage standards. Medicines safety and improvement is our priority. We are looking for a committed technician with excellent communication skills to work within multidisciplinary teams, providing specialist advice and guidance to improve the management of medicines in pharmacy and across the Trust.

The growing Pharmacy Medicines Safety team is friendly, supportive, and patient safety is at the heart of everything we do. The Pharmacy Department is large, innovative, and ever developing with lots of opportunities to progress.

As the successful candidate you would be responsible for supporting the Pharmacy Medicines Safety Team with the development and implementation appropriate systems and processes to evaluate and improve practice, utilising a range of quality improvement techniques.

Extensive experience and knowledge working as a registered pharmacy technician in a hospital pharmacy are key for this post to support delivery of the best quality and safest care to patients.

Main duties of the job

Lead action to improve compliance with controlled drug and medicines storage standards in line with legislation, in liaison with the Lead Pharmacist/Technician Medicines Safety.

Pro‑active identification, resolution and escalation of clinical governance/risk management issues relating to medicines management within the pharmacy department and Trust wide.

Design, undertake and support delivery of required outcomes from audit, improvement and research projects.

Develop standardised medicines incident reporting, including analysis and coordinating appropriate narrative for Trust reports.

Through education, training and communication raise awareness and upskill staff to ensure best practice in all aspects of pharmacy and medicines management.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award‑winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Details

Date posted: 04 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year
per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 287-DTC-116-26-A
Job locations: Aintree or Royal
Liverpool
L7 8XP
United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Lead for coordinating action across the Trust to improve compliance with controlled drugs and medicines storage standards in line with legislation, in liaison with the Lead Pharmacist/Technician Medicines Safety. This role will be responsible for:




• Provision of specialist advice, tools and upskilling of pharmacy/multi-disciplinary teams across the Trust to enable them to address safe storage requirements when clinical areas are moved/re‑designed.


• Developing and undertaking audits to assess compliance with CDs and storage standards for controlled drugs and other medicines; and engaging teams Trust-wide to improve practice.




• Act as a point of contact and resource for pharmacy, medicines management and storage issues, audit and improvement projects, and health and safety.


• Support the Divisional/Trust governance leads in recording, monitoring and feeding back on safety issues, incidents (clinical and non‑clinical) and risks within the Division.


• Represent the medicines safety team at Trust meetings and at relevant pharmacy department section meetings to provide specialist safety and quality guidance and ensure best practice.


• Undertake medicines safety incident investigations within pharmacy, developing appropriate preventative actions and lessons learned.


• Support the reporting of clinical and non‑clinical incidents and near misses across the organisation.


• Assist in the development of a just and learning culture by engaging managers and staff to identify system failures which contribute to incidents.


• Make a significant contribution to the development of medicines safety improvement strategies and annual plans.


• Design and undertake audit, research and improvement projects within the Department/Trust wide. Collecting, interpreting and analysing data; developing improvement actions; engaging stakeholders and evaluating effectiveness.


• Initiate service/quality improvement ideas and play a key role in generating a culture of continual improvement within the department.


• Support actions in response to National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) alerts and notices and ensure that responses are provided to required timelines.


• Deputise for Lead Pharmacist/Technician Medicines Safety to ensure the medicines safety agenda is delivered in line with trust priorities and timelines.


• Represent the Pharmacy Department in Trust-wide meetings and provide specialist guidance, to ensure high standards of governance are consistently practiced

Person Specification

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

Essential

• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences (or equivalent)


• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council


• Accredited accuracy checker


• Extensive experience working as a qualified Pharmacy Technician, including in a leadership role.


• Significant previous experience and knowledge of working in a hospital pharmacy


• Experience with designing and delivering training for different staff groups


• Experience in writing and reviewing policies, procedures and guidance by interpreting national legislation, policy and guidance


• Experience with medicines safety/clinical governance work

Desirable

• Leadership/management qualification


• Quality improvement qualification or demonstrable training


• Experience of designing, undertaking and supervising audits and service evaluation projects, including developing improvement plans


• Experience of writing business cases and options appraisals

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Excellent written skills

Desirable

• Advanced skills in presenting information utilising a range of applications


• Comprehensive understanding of Microsoft packages, including as minimum Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Accurate and methodical with good attention to detail

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Aintree or Royal
Liverpool
L7 8XP
United Kingdom

Employer's website

Employer's website: https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:
Lead Pharmacy Technician – Medicines Safety
Sean Brady
[e-mail]
01517062197