Job summary
An exciting secondment opportunity has arisen for a registered Pharmacy Technician to join our busy pharmacy team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) for 10 months to cover maternity leave. We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Technical Team Leader to work in our clinical team.
Primarily working on Royal and Broadgreen sites you will lead a ward based technical team focusing on services to the surgical division, to provide high quality medicines management for the Trust.
You should have significant experience of working as a technician leader in a busy pharmacy environment, ideally with experience of clinical development projects. You will need to have excellent communication and team working skills.
Leadership and ability to inspire your team will be required in this role to deliver the highest standard of patient centred care.
If you are interested and have what we are looking for to apply, please feel free to get in touch and organise a visit to our department.
Main duties of the job
You will work with our team of pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians and pharmacists to ensure an efficient clinical and supply service is provided to patients and our health care colleagues.
The post will involve the supervision and development of the day-to-day running of the technical ward service. To maintain existing standards and procedures and to help ensure that sufficient technical pharmacy staff are available to always cover the core objectives of the clinical service. Be responsible for the scheduling of the daily workload and ensuring the training needs of staff working in the service are met.
You will need to be well organised, able to work using your own initiative, enthusiastic and be pro-active to change.
The role will provide an opportunity for you to develop by attending courses such as coaching development programmes and personal growth programmes.
You will have effective communication skills to ensure day to day co-ordination of the ward service.
This is a full time (37.5hrs) position based across LUHFT.
The Pharmacy Department operates a 7-day service.
The successful candidate will be required to participate in weekend, late night and bank holiday rotas.
About us
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 - from birth and beyond.
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 Hospitalis 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 Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit theircareers page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Possesses knowledge across a range of pharmacy procedures and practises,underpinned by theoretical knowledge, experience and relevant practices.
To support Dispensary and Ward Based Services in a safe and efficientmanner to ensure operation in line with best practice. To co-ordinate all technical and support staff, organising work schedules and ensure that staff respond to the changing demands during the working day, ensuring an efficient skill mix.
To manage the technical staff in the dispensary and on wards to provide adispensing service involving assessment of medicines suitability of safe reuse.
To plan the work to maximize efficiency in accordance with agreed priorities particularly to reduce delays at discharge.
Participate in regular Senior Technical Team meetings and cascade torelevant technical and support staff groups.
Anticipate changes in stock level requirements and liaise with PurchasingManager to ensure that all stock levels are appropriate.
To deliver the patient counselling program for technicians, pre-registration pharmacists and student technicians.
To counsel and educate patients and carers on the correct use of theirmedication and assess their understanding of the medicines prescribed.
Delivery of dispensing activity to maintain skills including manipulation of raw materials for pharmaceutical extemporaneous preparations using laminar flow cabinets.
To work alongside the pharmacy IT team in the management of automatedstorage systems.
Clinical Responsibility
To support the provision and development of a technical clinical pharmacyservice as agreed with the Technical Services Manager.
This will include;
To deliver the Medication History Training program carried out by qualifiedtechnicians and pharmacists
Challenging inappropriate prescribing.
Responsible for ensuring that medicines are available to meet the patientsindividual treatment needs in a safe and timely manner.
Facilitate patient discharge in line with departmental procedures to ensure seamless pharmaceutical care across the primary/secondary care interface.
Use the Trusts incident reporting system to report any medication errors.
Managerial/Leadership
To work independently within appropriate guidelines, referring to manager when necessary.
Management of technical and support staff; participate in appraisal, sickness absence, recruitment and selection decisions, departmental workload and allocation.
Adhere to and promote the NHS code of conduct for managers and staff.In the absence of Technical Services Manager, represent the pharmacyservice on relevant Trust and external committees
Clinical Governance/Quality
Ensure that Clinical Governance across medicines supply aspects of thepharmacy service is performed.
To manage enquiries/complaints referring to a Senior Manager whereappropriate
Ensure technical and support staff are aware of their responsibilities underhealth and safety legislation and they are appropriately trained and provided with any necessary equipment to carry out their function.
Ensure all ward based and dispensary technical and support staff comply with mandatory training requirements and professional registration.
Education and training development
To be responsible for the In-House training packages. Ensuring all relevantstaff successfully complete as is required by department policies andprocedures.
To foster a culture of continuing professional education and vocationaltraining of all technical and support staff.
To deliver appropriate training within the Trust to medical staff and healthcare professionals
Deliver education/training programmes to Trust employees, internal and external to the pharmacy department.
Administration Responsibility
Ensure that all rotas for operation of the service, including late night, weekend working and bank holidays are in place.
Authorisation of annual leave for technical and support staff.
Manage the destruction and disposal of prescriptions with outside agencies in line with retention of paperwork guidance.
Research
Carries out audits to identify good practice and potential servicedevelopments.
Strategic role
To form part of the senior technical management team within pharmacy,contributing to the strategic development of services and the new hospital.
Organises service provision and strategic planning across the operationalpharmacy service.
HR Management
Has knowledge of and works within guidance of all Trust HR policies andprocedures.
Ensure in-house induction program is delivered to all new technical andsupport staff
Ensure Trust policies on recruitment, attendance, equality and diversity, Health and Safety and other national legislation are followed and understood by the pharmacy technical and support staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Possesses knowledge across a range of pharmacy procedures and practises,underpinned by theoretical knowledge, experience and relevant practices.
To support Dispensary and Ward Based Services in a safe and efficientmanner to ensure operation in line with best practice. To co-ordinate all technical and support staff, organising work schedules and ensure that staff respond to the changing demands during the working day, ensuring an efficient skill mix.
To manage the technical staff in the dispensary and on wards to provide adispensing service involving assessment of medicines suitability of safe reuse.
To plan the work to maximize efficiency in accordance with agreed priorities particularly to reduce delays at discharge.
Participate in regular Senior Technical Team meetings and cascade torelevant technical and support staff groups.
Anticipate changes in stock level requirements and liaise with PurchasingManager to ensure that all stock levels are appropriate.
To deliver the patient counselling program for technicians, pre-registration pharmacists and student technicians.
To counsel and educate patients and carers on the correct use of theirmedication and assess their understanding of the medicines prescribed.
Delivery of dispensing activity to maintain skills including manipulation of raw materials for pharmaceutical extemporaneous preparations using laminar flow cabinets.
To work alongside the pharmacy IT team in the management of automatedstorage systems.
Clinical Responsibility
To support the provision and development of a technical clinical pharmacyservice as agreed with the Technical Services Manager.
This will include;
To deliver the Medication History Training program carried out by qualifiedtechnicians and pharmacists
Challenging inappropriate prescribing.
Responsible for ensuring that medicines are available to meet the patientsindividual treatment needs in a safe and timely manner.
Facilitate patient discharge in line with departmental procedures to ensure seamless pharmaceutical care across the primary/secondary care interface.
Use the Trusts incident reporting system to report any medication errors.
Managerial/Leadership
To work independently within appropriate guidelines, referring to manager when necessary.
Management of technical and support staff; participate in appraisal, sickness absence, recruitment and selection decisions, departmental workload and allocation.
Adhere to and promote the NHS code of conduct for managers and staff.In the absence of Technical Services Manager, represent the pharmacyservice on relevant Trust and external committees
Clinical Governance/Quality
Ensure that Clinical Governance across medicines supply aspects of thepharmacy service is performed.
To manage enquiries/complaints referring to a Senior Manager whereappropriate
Ensure technical and support staff are aware of their responsibilities underhealth and safety legislation and they are appropriately trained and provided with any necessary equipment to carry out their function.
Ensure all ward based and dispensary technical and support staff comply with mandatory training requirements and professional registration.
Education and training development
To be responsible for the In-House training packages. Ensuring all relevantstaff successfully complete as is required by department policies andprocedures.
To foster a culture of continuing professional education and vocationaltraining of all technical and support staff.
To deliver appropriate training within the Trust to medical staff and healthcare professionals
Deliver education/training programmes to Trust employees, internal and external to the pharmacy department.
Administration Responsibility
Ensure that all rotas for operation of the service, including late night, weekend working and bank holidays are in place.
Authorisation of annual leave for technical and support staff.
Manage the destruction and disposal of prescriptions with outside agencies in line with retention of paperwork guidance.
Research
Carries out audits to identify good practice and potential servicedevelopments.
Strategic role
To form part of the senior technical management team within pharmacy,contributing to the strategic development of services and the new hospital.
Organises service provision and strategic planning across the operationalpharmacy service.
HR Management
Has knowledge of and works within guidance of all Trust HR policies andprocedures.
Ensure in-house induction program is delivered to all new technical andsupport staff
Ensure Trust policies on recruitment, attendance, equality and diversity, Health and Safety and other national legislation are followed and understood by the pharmacy technical and support staff.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Accuracy Checking Technician qualification
Desirable
- NVQ / A1 workplace assessors qualification
- Management qualification
- Accredited Medicines Management qualification
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Services
Experience
Essential
- Significant previous experience and knowledge of working in a hospital pharmacy
- Line management experience
- Experience in delivering of education and training of other staff
- Experience of working with patient's own medicines schemes/medicines management experience
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of pharmacy computer systems
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written communication skills
- Excellent keyboard and computer skills (email, databases, spreadsheets, word processing and presentation software)
Other
Essential
- Accurate and methodical - good attention to detail
- Enthusiasm for the role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Accuracy Checking Technician qualification
Desirable
- NVQ / A1 workplace assessors qualification
- Management qualification
- Accredited Medicines Management qualification
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Services
Experience
Essential
- Significant previous experience and knowledge of working in a hospital pharmacy
- Line management experience
- Experience in delivering of education and training of other staff
- Experience of working with patient's own medicines schemes/medicines management experience
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of pharmacy computer systems
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written communication skills
- Excellent keyboard and computer skills (email, databases, spreadsheets, word processing and presentation software)
Other
Essential
- Accurate and methodical - good attention to detail
- Enthusiasm for the role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
