Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (24 months)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 days per week)
- Job ref
- 350-TWS8067164
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medicines Management Department
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/06/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 01/07/2026
Employer heading
Clinical Transformation Technician
Band 7
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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 also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Using AI to support your application
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a helpful tool when preparing your application, supporting you to organise and structure your application and present your experiences clearly. However, we want to hear about your experiences and achievements. Please ensure everything you submit is truthful, accurate, and reflects your own work and experience. Your authentic story is the best way to help us understand who you are and what you can bring to the role. If content appears to be copied or misrepresented, it may impact the outcome of your application. We encourage you to use AI responsibly as a support tool, not a substitute for your own voice.
For tips and guidance, please refer to our applicant guidance.
Your experiences matter, let them shine.
Applications that appear mostly or fully generated by AI, without clear personal examples linked to the person specification, may be rejected.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Job overview
Are you a dynamic and reliable individual who thrives in a fast paced, changing environment? Do you have a passion for projects and a knack for leadership and engagement? Then we want to hear from you as an exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of the Medicines Management Service in Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, Pharmacy Technician with experience of delivering strategic projects, and change management. As part of our Operational Business Support Team, based at Maghull Health Park, you will have the opportunity to work across a number of service lines to drive forward the ambition of our Medicines Optimisation Strategy, the Modernisation of our Technical Services and a number of other strategic projects.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be required to work with a number of key stakeholders to ensure objectives are delivered on time. Experience of working with Prince2 or other project methodology would be an advantage for potential applicants as you will be required to monitor progress within the scope of the project and present highlight reports and recommendations to the project group.
You will need to have excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills and able to work autonomously whilst driving forward several projects at once.
We offer hybrid working between home and base and as our services are geographically dispersed across the footprint of the Trust so there will be occasions when you will be required to travel to other sites, to meet the needs of the business.
We are committed to the personal development of all our staff – and training will be provided where needed. So come and join a team that values collaboration, support and mutual respect and success.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities:
1. Act as the project lead for technical services on specific projects as required, utilising appropriate national guidance.
2. Develop a strategy for the delivery of service developments targeting all stakeholders.
3. Lead on service development in relation to specific projects.
4. Ensure that the appropriate infrastructure is in place to deliver new service developments within the organisation including information technology, information systems, telecommunications and premises.
5. Provide leadership and co-ordination across the organisation in developing identified services.
6. Ensure robust project management and roll-out plans to deliver identified projects and services across the organisation.
7. Develop and ensure appropriate implementation of policies to ensure objectives are met.
8. Ensure that relevant operational procedures are in place for new service developments including clinical processes, record keeping, processing financial information and securing confidentiality.
9. Produce all documentation and plans required by the organisation in relation to identified services within stated timescales.
10. Ensure appropriate interpretation of national policy to deliver local needs.
11. Produce reports, established on robust and reliable data for the information and action of others.
12. Manage delegated budgets across the organisation identifying any additional forms of income. Working to ensure maximum use is made of resources and achieving balance at year end.
13. Communicate clearly to own team and others and deliver presentations to groups as required.
14. Undertake full line management responsibilities for staff.
15. Undertake surveys and audits as necessary for maintaining and improving service delivery.
16. Work closely with colleagues to ensure that all developments are fully integrated with the organisation’s modernisation and commissioning agendas.
17. Develop positive working relationships with all stakeholders.
18. The post holder shall, as necessary, provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent level of experience
- Evidence of CPD/ short courses
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
- First line management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate post registration/ qualification experience
- Experience of management and clinical leadership
- Experience of successful multi-agency working
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate post registration/ qualification experience
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in NHS and Social Care
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/ clients, carers and colleagues
- Understanding how other agencies work
- IT literate
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
- Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to understand and analyse complex data
- Risk assessment skills
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Research skills
- Report writing skills
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
Desirable criteria
- Research skills
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous improvement – committed to making improvements to our services for the benefit of all.
- Accountability – taking ownership to anticipate, develop and deliver high quality care.
- Respect – how we treat others in an inclusive and supportive way.
- Enthusiasm – demonstrate our passion and pride for what we do and how we do it.
- Support – actively supporting others with compassion and courage.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Ravenscroft
- Job title
- Operational Business Support Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07767 674 427
List jobs with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Health Science Services or all sectors