Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Site: Liverpool University Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/11/2025 23:59
Band 5
Job overview
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 ATOs. We are looking for a registered pharmacy technician with an accuracy checking certificate who is keen to realise their potential and 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 8am to 8pm Monday to Friday and 8am to 4.15pm Saturday and Sunday. Staff have flexibility to request 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. 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.
Main duties of the job
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 require excellent organisational skills to undertake this role. You will also 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, prioritise your workload, meet deadlines and be committed to delivering high standards in a patient focused service. We are open every day of the year; our rota includes weekends, bank holidays and late nights.
Working for our organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital. We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
* Provide a clinical technical service to the POD wards, including taking comprehensive medication histories and delivering a cost-effective “one-stop” dispensing service involving accuracy checking patients’ own drugs and assessing suitability for reuse.
* Provide a cost-effective “one-stop” dispensing service to wards, involving accuracy checking patients’ own drugs and assessing suitability for use, arranging re-supplies of patients’ drugs, liaising with GPs, nursing homes and ward staff, assessing patient concordance and providing counselling and education where necessary.
* Provide a “topping up” service on wards for individual patient drug supplies under the direction of the Dispensary Manager or Senior Technicians and in accordance with procedures.
* Support the clinical pharmacists on POD wards in the provision of complete pharmaceutical care for patients.
* Liaise with GPs, nursing homes, doctors, ward staff and other healthcare professionals to provide complete pharmaceutical care for patients.
* Interpret medical notes and test results, identify pharmaceutical and clinical problems and refer to the appropriate medical staff or clinical pharmacist.
* Counsel and educate patients and carers on the correct use of their medication and assess their understanding of the medicines prescribed.
* Assess patient concordance, identify patients requiring compliance aids and arrange provision of the necessary aids in both primary and secondary care.
* Facilitate patient discharges to ensure timely and effective discharge supplies of medication are available for individual patients.
* Perform a final accuracy check on prescriptions and orders already clinically checked by a pharmacist, and ensure dispensing errors are corrected by the appropriate staff.
* Develop, implement and manage a training package for technical staff in the systems used on POD wards and assess, train and supervise other technical staff to ensure optimal service, adherence to procedures and safe systems of work.
* Consult with ward managers and train nursing staff in the systems used on POD wards and provide pharmaceutical information and advice; give lectures on pharmaceutical topics where appropriate.
* Carry out audit projects independently and with other pharmacy staff to improve and develop service provision and contribute to review of existing systems and new procedural guidelines.
* Coordinate and participate in providing a patient counselling course for technical staff and assist with education and training of all staff, other healthcare professionals and patients.
* Participate in personal development review and appraise and perform PDRs on other staff members.
* Assist in providing directorate financial information and analysis and in implementing directorate service quality and cost improvement initiatives.
* Attend meetings relevant to the role and appropriate training courses for technicians; encourage others to undertake further training and participate in schemes to keep up-to-date pharmaceutical and clinical knowledge.
* Advise nursing staff on the correct storage of goods supplied by the pharmacy with regard to security and stability.
* Contribute to recording and reporting of clinical and non-clinical incidents.
* Liaise and provide support for the Senior Technician Team in managing ward service activities.
* Act as a role model for student technicians and other members of the pharmacy team; provide mentoring, assessments, induction and training of student technicians, pre-registration pharmacists, dispensing assistants and others.
* Undertake Continuing Professional Development to keep pharmaceutical knowledge current and compliant with requirements for entry on the pharmacy technician register.
* Carry out dispensing of prescriptions, including extemporaneous prescriptions, unlicensed drugs, controlled drugs, and in-patient/out-patient prescriptions in accordance with safe systems of work.
* Co-operate in staff rotation within the Trust’s pharmacy departments and participate in weekend, bank holiday and late-night duties as appropriate.
* Observe the recommendations contained in the Guide to Good Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Practice and ensure work complies with Health and Safety regulations.
* Observe Health and Safety and Data Protection regulations as applicable.
To undertake any other related duties, as required.
Person specification
Other
* Ability to thrive in a changing environment
* Attention to detail and work accurately
* Flexible
Skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Pleasant and helpful attitude
* Ability to work on own initiative, as part of a team
* Smart and clean appearance
Experience
* Significant experience with Electronic Medicines Management systems, including file maintenance, standard and ad-hoc reporting
* Dispensing experience
* Patient counselling
* Experience of working on wards
Qualifications
* Accredited Technical Accuracy Checking Qualification
* NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and BTEC Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences with underpinning knowledge
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Knowledge
* Commitment to Continuing Professional Development
* Ability to understand role and service priorities
* Ability to train staff
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Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
We reserve the right to close vacancies if we have received a minimum number of applications. Please apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and offers flexible working; details will be discussed during recruitment. We are committed to equality and diversity and encourage applicants from under-represented groups.
The DBS disclosure cost will be deducted from salary as part of the recruitment process. DBS fees may apply depending on role and stream. Details are provided in the application materials.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to safeguarding; staff must adhere to safeguarding policies and Local Safeguarding Children and Adults Board procedures. All employees and volunteers are expected to maintain safeguarding knowledge and complete mandatory safeguarding training.
If you have any personal requirements to participate in our recruitment process, please contact Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to make suitable arrangements.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to Disclosure to the DBS under applicable regulations.
Contact information
Name: Cheryl Kelly
Job title: Deputy Technical Services Manager
Email: cheryl.kelly@liverpoolft.nhs.uk
Telephone: 0151 706 2095
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