Specialist Pharmacy Technician - Dispensary Services - Team Leader - Liverpool - ref. z06670015

A Vacancy at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

An exciting opportunity has presented for a self-motivated and committed individual to develop their leadership skills in this management role. We are looking for an astute and experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our team and to team lead medicines management dispensary services based at Maghull Ashworth hospital site & cover if required at Hollins Park Hospital, Warrington.

For further information regarding this vacancy please contact: Katherine Kenwright, Pharmacy Technician Team Managerfor DispensariesonKatherine.kenwright@merseycare.nhs.ukor telephone 01512506028.

Interview planned for: 25 November 2024

You will also hold HR management responsibilities.

To help us achieve this, you must be able to demonstrate core leadership and organisational skills as well as extensive knowledge ofdispensaryservices. The ability to inspire and motivate others is central to the success of this role.

Mersey Care is one of the largest Trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West. We serve more than 1.4 million people across the region (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and provide commissioned 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 call this continuous improvement in quality and cost, ‘striving for perfect care’. Our aim is to play a full part in the health and social care economies we serve, by promoting and driving greater integration between mental and physical health and social care.

1. On a daily basis, to manage a team of dedicated pharmacy staff, including students, support workers & other dispensary-based staff, in the supply of dispensed medication for inpatients and outpatients, including discharge, weekend leave, self-administration of medication, community prescriptions and the supply of compliance aids and patient information leaflets.
2. To act as a leader within the relevant setting.
3. To manage the operational aspects of the dispensary service on a day-to-day basis to ensure that receipt, dispensing, checking, supply and delivery of medicines meet the pharmaceutical supply needs of the trust in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
4. To oversee the ordering and supply of controlled stationery e.g., FP10, NMP and FP10MDA-SS to ensure a safe and secure service
5. To act as a final accuracy checker for individually dispensed prescriptions.
6. To ensure optimum use of the pharmacists who are allocated to dispensary duties via direct supervision, in order to provide a timely, effective and safe dispensary service.
7. To assess the training needs of the pharmacy staff allocated to the dispensary and as part of professional development planning provide competency-based training, furthermore, to work with the education and training team to ensure that induction and on-going training provided to

1. To act as a supervisor to relevant staff during induction/training periods within the relevant service.

Please read job description for further information.

This advert closes on Sunday 17 Nov 2024