Responsibilities
* To support the Deputy Chief Pharmacy Technician to develop and manage the training and education for technician led services.
* To co‑ordinate, facilitate and deliver training to dispensers, students, technicians and accuracy checking pharmacy technicians for technician led services.
* To complete training documents and procedures for technician led services.
* To lead the technician led services in the delivery of identified training needs.
* To support the Chief Pharmacy Technician to manage the dispensers, students, technicians and accuracy checking pharmacy technicians.
* To provide a specialist technical service/specialist advice to patients at ward level including medicines optimisation.
* To support the Deputy Chief Pharmacy Technician in training of the Omnicell systems for all staff.
* To participate in the department rota to ensure a pharmacy service is provided efficiently over 7 days. This includes late nights, weekends and Bank holidays.
Legal Requirements
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check: If this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, a submission for DBS will be made. Applicants who have not already done so are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service, which has a small annual fee of £13 per year. DBS check costs will be deducted from salary following appointment.
Flexible Working
* All employees have the right to request flexible working from day one of employment.
* There is no limit on the number of requests they can make.
* Employees have the right to make requests, have them considered, regardless of the reason.
At Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust we will consider requests for flexible working and encourage discussion of options at interview stage.
Benefits and Working Conditions
We offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme provides a variety of services. The Trust is non‑smoking across all sites; failure to follow this rule may result in disciplinary action.
Staff must undertake the Trust’s commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Application Integrity
You must ensure that your application, including personal statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Plagiarism, including presenting the ideas and experience of others as your own or AI‑generated content, is prohibited. The Trust will not accept applications found to be AI‑generated and will check all applications against AI detection software.
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