Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under‑represented in our workforce. We also welcome applications from reservists and ex‑armed forces personnel.
Dispensary Higher Level Pharmacy Technician roles
These posts are based within our purpose‑built pharmacy department at Maghull Health Park and support our in‑house Pharmacy at Hollins Park Hospital in Warrington. We welcome applications from experienced Pharmacy Technicians from any sector who have an interest in developing their professional career within a hospital pharmacy setting.
These posts provide an unparalleled opportunity to develop your skills and experience across a diverse service. We provide a well‑structured support system, including robust individual and group supervision, personal development planning and regular access to professional development opportunities and flexible working opportunities.
As a department we are embracing the Trust’s ambition to digitally transform our services and have introduced new initiatives which include ward‑based automation, EPMA and, within our new department, three automated robotic dispensing systems including a blister packing robot.
Main duties of the job
The post‑holder will be obliged to participate in our seven‑day medicines supply service in line with the hours of operation.
For full information regarding responsibilities, required qualifications and experience please refer to the job description and person specification.
Please ensure you check the email account from which you apply for all correspondence. All information regarding your application will come from apps.trac.jobs not NHS Jobs. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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.
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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
About Mersey Care
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 are currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce costs as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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