Medicines Management Technician - Emergency Floor

at  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Pharmacy Emergency Floor team at LUHFT on the Royal Liverpool site, working alongside pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and ATO’s.
We are looking for a registered pharmacy technician with an accuracy checking certificate who is keen to realise their potential and who can make the most of the scope this post offers to deliver a patient centred approach to our service delivery.
The position is full time (37.5 hours). Our pharmacy technicians work over 7 days covering the service 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 4.15pm Saturday and Sunday. Staff have the flexibility to request their shifts/ days off and weekends within the rota.
We provide pharmacy services to the Emergency Department and the Acute Medical Unit. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring optimum performance of the pharmacy service whilst working in our busy departments as part of the Medicine Management team.
Technicians are encouraged to progress in their role and career path by obtaining additional relevant training to enable them to achieve this.
Are you looking for an opportunity to broaden your technical and clinical knowledge supported by a friendly and enthusiastic pharmacy team?
If so, we welcome applications from Pharmacy Technicians currently working in all settings.
Please feel free to get in touch to organise a visit to our department.
You will be working closely with the pharmacists and other health care professionals within the multidisciplinary team in the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Unit area to deliver high quality, patient focused medicines management services.
You will be responsible for the delivery of safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care to patients, as well as facilitating efficient discharge and transfer of patients. This will need you to have excellent organisational skills to undertake this role.
You will also have a small obligation to rotate through our busy dispensary, making good use of your accuracy checking certificate.
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.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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