This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Medicines Management Service in Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. The organisation has recently invested significantly in the team’s expansion to reconfigure the way we deliver our service. We would like you to join our team and be part of delivering the next stage of our exciting journey.
The Medicines Management team is well established with a track record in delivering outcomes, our pharmacy support workers are key to ensuring this happens.
We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible and motivated individuals to join our team of pharmacy support workers. We have vacancies for permanent positions including flexible working opportunities based at Maghull Health Park.
The successful candidates will support the smooth running of the pharmacy dispensary services ensuring that medication is supplied safely and accurately, in a timely manner. You will be required to undertake a broad range of duties, and an opportunity to rotate across the services gaining experience and skills in each area.
We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible, and motivated individuals to join our team who have an interest in developing their professional career within a hospital pharmacy setting.
There will be opportunity to develop your skills and experience and we will provide full training and a well-structured support system, including robust individual and group supervision, personal development planning and access to professional development opportunities.
You will be part of an expanding team of highly professional and dedicated staff whose aim is to provide an excellent, patient focused service.
This role would suit someone who is committed to providing high quality patient focused care utilising excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work within a large team.
This post is based within our main Medicines Management Building at Maghull Health Park; however, you may be required to work at other trust locations.
The post-holder will be obliged to participate in our seven-day medicines supply service in line with the hours of operation
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.”
1. To work in accordance with trust policies, procedures & standard operating
procedures as appropriate.
2. To undertake mandatory and other applicable training internally within the trust.
3. To carry out on-the-job training in the duties of a pharmacy support worker, developing and
maintaining the required knowledge, skills and attitudes to fulfil those duties as required.
4. To engage in learning opportunities, including shadowing of more experienced staff members
and requesting experience in particular areas of interest.
5. To participate in any rota and/or internal team training opportunities to support flexible
working; this will support cover where necessary; and maintain stores & ward-based
competencies. This may include working on secure wards.
6. To utilise the automated medicines management equipment, including robotic dispensing
systems, following department standard operating procedures; and to respond appropriately
to system failures and problems (to troubleshoot), escalating issues as required.
7. To assist with the computerised and physical distribution of pharmaceutical products to all clients
and departments, (including internal pharmacy or medicines management requisitions) ensuring
documentation is completed appropriately.
8. To accurately and efficiently supply stock and dispensed medicines, including supply of
compliance aids and patient information leaflets.
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This advert closes on Sunday 27 Jul 2025 #J-18808-Ljbffr