Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 411-DIA-26-8003826
- Employer
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Alder Hey Children's Hospital
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - Neurodiversity Service
Band 5
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Job overview
Alder Hey in the park is one of the world’s leading children’s hospitals recognised as a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, cardiac, spinal and brain disease, providing specialist treatment for children in the UK and from around the world.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible for providing a safe, efficient, and accurate pharmacy service to neurodiversity and ward service as needed
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- To support the Lead pharmacist for Developmental Paediatrics and Senior Technician in the delivery of safe and cost effective medicines use to the neurodiversity (ND) service
- Complete medicines reconciliation for patients accurately and safely under the care of ND service as well as those on wards
- To safely dispense and issue prescriptions to patients.
- To provide drug stock supplies to wards and departments using the automated drug storage systems where available.
- To review and supply medicines to patients on discharge from hospital
- To carry out final accuracy checks of clinically screened prescriptions dispensed by others as part of maintaining competency
- To provide complex information and advice to patients and carers on the use and supply of their medicines.
- To support and deliver departmental training packages to student pharmacy technicians, pharmacy technicians, Pre-registration pharmacists and pharmacy assistants.
Working for our organisation
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a stand alone paediatric hospital located on the outskirts of Liverpool with a national reputation for excellence. A brilliant team of pharmacist and technicians provide pharmacy services to a wide range of paediatric surgical and medical specialties. The pharmacy teams are innovative, caring and compassionate and work well together.
We are committed to staff development and value our Technician’s dedication and hard work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Community Division:
1. Responsible for reviewing and closing medicines related incidents that do not require clinical input
2. Monitor incident trends and generate reports for divisional governance under supervision of Senior Technician
3. Carry out pill school clinics under the direction of Lead Pharmacist and Senior Technician
4. Support the senior technician in medicines initialisation clinic counselling session
5. Supporting prescription management team with the queries escalating to clinical staff when required
6. Working closely with PCO to inform patients of prescription pathway and improve communication
7. Maintain data analytics of prescriptions
8. Liaising with community pharmacies around prescription issues
9. Supporting admin team in phone queries relating to prescriptions escalating to clinical staff when required
10. Under the supervision of senior technician develop and run medication workshops for ND team and patients/parent groups
11. Support in developing and maintaining RPA process for repeat prescriptions
12. Stock updates and gather information on new drug availability based on cost and clinical effectiveness
13. Support with patient information development with the Lead Pharmacist and Senior Technician
14. Support with SOP development with the Lead Pharmacist and Senior Technician
15. Support the lead pharmacist and senior technician with the agreed audit workstreams
16. Support in maintaining Prescription list for nurses
17. With the Senior Technician generate appropriate safety alerts related to medicines used within the ND service
18. Support in admin training for medication related documentation
Main Pharmacy service
Please see JD for further details. Post holder will be mainly based in ND service and will only have to provide ad hoc cover to help maintain competencies
Person specification
Proof of registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services & BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science
- Registered with the Pharmaceutical Council
- Level 4/Equivalent dispensary accuracy checking qualification
- Demonstrated experience of supervising pharmacy technicians and assistants
- Previous experience of ‘Near Patient Pharmacy’ and POD’s
- Good understanding of the job description and expectations of the role
- Ability to communicate effectively and in a professional manner with patients and staff
- Ability to work effectively within various teams and alone.
- Ability to solve complex technical problems
- Good working knowledge of safe dispensing practices and responsible attitude to quality and accuracy
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a hospital pharmacy setting
- Ability to adapt to different computer packages
- Pro-active approach to the extended roles for technicians
- NPP ward-based / Medicines Reconciliation training
- Demonstrated experience of maintaining stock control systems
- Previous experience of completing department projects and audits
- Experience of counselling patients about their medicines and understanding potential side effects
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Rowley
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist - Developmental Paedaitrics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Andrew Lilley - [email protected]
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