Higher Level Pharmacy Technician - Clinical Services

at  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Are you 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 come and join our friendly Medicines Management Team.
Why choose us?
Specialist services: we currently have opportunities across 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.
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 posts available across our acute inpatient teams.
Shortlisting planned for: 18 November 2024
Interviews planned for: 27 November 2024 (subject to change)
You will have the opportunity to work within a multi-disciplinary team, supporting patient care and assisting with medicines reconciliations and timely discharge processes. There will be an opportunity to assist nursing staff with medicines management, completing audits and providing training and education.
To maintain Pharmacy Technician competencies and to continue to develop your skills, there is a requirement to provide some support to our dispensary services on a rota basis.
There is a recruitment premium attached to the above posts. Successful candidates will receive a £2,000 payment on joining the Trust and an additional £2,000 on completion of the first year of employment. This recruitment payment must be paid back in full if the employee leaves the Trust within two years of starting.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
To carry out under the direction, of the Specialist Pharmacy technician Manager, the following duties in accordance with current Trust and Departmental procedures.
1. To develop and maintain safe systems of medication supply to in-patient areas.
2. To liaise with ward staff with regard to prescription interventions e.g., missing details, incorrectly prescribed dosages. Fill in any adverse incident reporting paperwork to participate in the medicines management 7-day supply service including by accuracy checking slots in the dispensary to ensure maintenance of competency in final accuracy checking.
3. Supply of compliance aids is a key element of this role. These may require complex medication regimes that necessitate the accurate manipulation of pharmaceutical products.
4. To organise and supervise the work of pharmacy dispensers, assistants and other technicians.
5. To assist the Specialist Pharmacy Technician Manager- in the running of clinical trials and the maintenance of necessary records, in accordance with protocols. This is to include the training of other staff in the dispensing of clinical trials.
6. To accurately and efficiently supply dispensed medication within Trust frameworks for inpatients, outpatients, and community patients including discharge, weekend leave, self-medication, and patient information leaflets.
7. Following successful demonstration of agreed medicines optimisation competencies, to complete the accurate drug history and support medicines reconciliation of patients’ medication and assess medicines for usability at ward level.
8. To maintain contemporaneous records on the appropriate clinical system.
9. Where appropriate to be involved in the organisation of the supply and monitoring of medications to patients within the trust.

Please refer the Job description for details