Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 350-TWS7437235
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medicines Management Building, Maghull Health Park
- Town
- Maghull
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/10/2025
Employer heading
Higher Level Pharmacy Technician Dispensary
Band 5
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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.
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Job overview
We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and self-motivated Pharmacy Technician to join the Mersey Care Medicines Management Team. The Executive team at Mersey Care recognise the value of our services and have recently invested a significant amount of additional funding to enable the transformation and expansion of our service.
Dispensary Higher Level Pharmacy Technician roles based within our purpose-built pharmacy department at Maghull Health Park and supporting our in-house Pharmacy at Hollins Park Hospital in Warrington.
We welcome applications from experienced Pharmacy Technicians from any sector who have interest in developing their professional career within a hospital pharmacy setting.
These posts provide an unparalleled opportunity to develop your skills and experience across a diverse service. We provide a well-structured support system, including robust individual and group supervision, personal development planning and regular access to professional development opportunities and flexible working opportunities.
As a department we are embracing the Trusts ambition to digitally transform our services and have introduced new initiatives which include ward-based automation, EPMA and within our new department three automated robotic dispensing systems including a blister packing robot.
Main duties of the job
For full information regarding responsibilities, required qualifications and experience please refer to the job description and person specification.
The post-holder will be obliged to participate in our seven-day medicines supply service in line with the hours of operation.
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
For full information regarding responsibilities, required qualifications and experience please refer to the job description and person specification.
The post-holder will be obliged to participate in our seven-day medicines supply service in line with the hours of operation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and BTEC level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science, or equivalent qualification with appropriate underpinning knowledge
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician
- Accredited Technical Accuracy Checking Qualification
Desirable criteria
- NVQ A1 workplace assessor (or willingness to work towards)
- Relevant medicines management qualification or accreditation, or willingness to work towards; or equivalent experience
KNOWLEDGE/ EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Ability to train others
- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Demonstrable experience of dispensing & accuracy checking
- Experience of using electronic medicines management systems, including oversight of stock levels
- Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self- development and CPD
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable post qualification hospital pharmacy experience
- Experience of working on wards
- Experience of working within an NHS organisation
- Experience of supervising staff within a technical area of pharmacy services
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to multitask and change from one job to another frequently, working both independently and as part of a team Self-motivated and able to use initiative
- Excellent communication skills: – written – verbal – listening
- Good IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
- Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
- Professional manner
- Ability to travel between different sites
- Customer care skills
- To receive & manage telephone calls
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Tasmin Goff
- Job title
- Pharmacy Technician Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 250 6061
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