Senior Pharmacy Technician - Renal

Transformationunitgm; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in Liverpool seeks a registered pharmacy technician to join its renal pharmacy team. The role involves providing patient-focused clinical services and ensuring efficient medicines management processes across various settings. Ideal candidates should hold relevant qualifications and be passionate about patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Demonstrable post qualification experience of Ward Based Services required.
• Experience in patient counselling necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical technical service to inpatient wards and clinics.
• Ensure safe and timely medicines supply.
• Supervise and check dispensing of medicines.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to empathise with patients

Ability to work accurately

Ability to future plan

Ability and willingness to adapt to change

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services

BTEC Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences

Tools

General Pharmaceutical Council Registration

Accredited Technical Accuracy Checking Qualification

Job description

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Liverpool Hospital Town Liverpool Salary £29,970 - £36,483 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/06/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 5

Job overview

We are seeking a registered pharmacy technician to join our friendly and forward-thinking renal pharmacy team, supporting services for renal transplant and nephrology patients.

Now based in our modern, purpose-built hospital, we are entering an exciting phase of service development. Significant investment from the transplant service will strengthen the role of pharmacy in the care of transplant patients, creating new opportunities to influence the patient pathway and optimise medicines use across this complex and rewarding area of care.

Our services span inpatient care at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, outpatient clinics, and a network of satellite haemodialysis units across Merseyside. As a Senior Pharmacy Technician for Renal Services, you will play a key role in ensuring that medicines management processes are efficient, safe, and patient-centred across all these settings.

We are looking for a registered pharmacy technician with an accuracy checking certificate who is passionate about patient care and excited to contribute to the ongoing transformation of our services. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a real impact on the outcomes and experiences of transplant patients.

We welcome applications from pharmacy technicians in all sectors, as full training will be provided locally. If you’d like to learn more or arrange a visit to our department, we’d be delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

You will work alongside the lead pharmacists and a team of Senior Pharmacy Technicians for Renal Services to ensure medicines supply services are optimised. Making sure safe, timely medicines supplies, answering medication-related queries and signposting as appropriate. You will provide patient counselling to promote understanding and adherence.

Working in a multidisciplinary team you will contribute to cost-saving and service improvement initiatives.

Working in clinic, on the wards and from our busy satellite pharmacy rooms you will be responsible for the delivery of safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care to newly admitted patients, as well as facilitating efficient discharges

To undertake this role, you will need you to have excellent organisational skills. You must be able to work accurately, have a good eye for detail, and be able to prioritise your workload, meet deadlines and be committed to the delivery of high standards in a patient focused service.

We are open every day of the year our rota's include weekends, bank holidays and late nights.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

To provide a clinical technical service to inpatient wards, satellite units and relevant renal clinics, including the taking of comprehensive medication histories and to provide a cost-effective “one-stop” dispensing service involving accuracy checking patients’ own drugs and assessing their suitability for reuse

To liaise with clinical pharmacists and nursing staff to enable development of the renal service.

To carry out and check, if appropriate, the dispensing and issuing of medicines from the pharmacy department in accordance with the policies, procedures and safe systems of work which prevail at the time.

To check for prescribing and other errors within those limits compatible with technician training and bring these to the attention of the supervising pharmacists via the agreed procedures and when required liaise with hospital medical staff, nursing staff, PCNs, nursing homes and community pharmacy staff.

To interpret medical notes and test results, identify pharmaceutical and clinical problems and refer to the appropriate medical staff or clinical pharmacist.

To answer telephone and face to face queries of a routine or technical nature from a wide range of staff groups, in pharmacy, on the ward, or from renal transplant patients within competence, referring to other appropriate HCP when relevant.

To assess POM’s for suitability for continued use and ensure sufficient supplies of medication are available on ward for individual patients.

To supervise and oversee the renal transplant repeat dispensing scheme which operates within the trust.

To ensure that appropriate instructions, demonstrations and counselling of patients with regard to their drug therapy, is offered and delivered in a professional manner as advised or directed by the supervising pharmacists and according to the prevailing departmental policies and procedures.

To perform a final accuracy, check on prescriptions and orders which have previously been clinically checked by a pharmacist and in accordance with Trust procedures, and ensure dispensing errors are corrected by the appropriate member of staff.

To deputise as required by the Technical Services Manager in the absence of senior technicians.

To fully co-operate with senior managers in the timely and accurate collecting and collating of information.

To participate in and fully co-operate with project work and carry out developmental projects in line with the objectives of the Trust and Pharmacy Directorate.

To attend any meetings relevant to the role and appropriate training courses for technicians, to encourage other staff to undertake further training and to participate in such training schemes necessary to keep relevant pharmaceutical and clinical technical knowledge up to date.

To undertake Continuing Professional Development in order to keep pharmaceutical knowledge current, ensure best practice and comply with requirements for entry on the pharmacy technician register.

To fully co-operate with the overall provision of a high quality, efficient and cost-effective pharmacy service.

To work in all sections of the department as required by the Technical Services Manager.

To co-operate in staff rotation within the pharmacy departments of the Trust including all dispensaries, the aseptic department and out patients and to participate in Saturday, Sunday, Bank holiday and late night duties as is considered appropriate by the Chief Pharmacist or other senior
manager.

To undertake such reasonable duties as may be required from time to time.

To adapt and adhere to changes that may occur, which affect the current practices within the pharmacy directorate, such as the introduction of new equipment, policies and hours of working, after discussion and reasonable notice.

Person specification

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to empathise with patients
• Ability to future plan
• Ability to work accurately
• Ability and willingness to adapt to change
• Ability to suggest developmental change

Knowledge

• Commitment to Continuing Processional Development
• Ability to understand role and service priorities
• Ability to train staff

Experience

• Demonstrable post qualification experience of Ward Based Services
• Dispensary experience / Ward Based Services
• Patient counselling

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and BTEC Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences with appropriate underpinning knowledge
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Accredited Technical Accuracy Checking Qualification

Other

• Flexible
• Work on own initiative
• Works as a team player

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidatesapplying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Lena Whittall Job title Lead Pharmacy Technician - Clinical Services Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0151 706 2095 Additional information

Claire Lowe

Deputy Lead Pharmacy Technician - Clinical Services

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0151 706 6655