Medicines Management Technician

Job summary

Ahead of the exciting move into our New Hospital we are looking for a registered pharmacy technician with an accuracy checking certificate who is keen to realise their potential and who can make the most of the scope this post offers to deliver a patient centred approach to our service delivery You will play a pivotal role in ensuring optimum performance of the pharmacy service whilst working in the dispensary and medicine management teams Are you passionate about patients and optimising their treatment? Do you want to feel you are doing something worthwhile and rewarding? Do you want to further your career in a fast paced teaching hospital? Are you looking for an opportunity to broaden your technical knowledge supported by a friendly and enthusiastic pharmacy team? Please feel free to get in touch to organise a visit to our department    

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the medicines management pharmacy technician team at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen sites, where you will complete our in-house medicines management and medicines history taking training programmes We will welcome applications from Pharmacy Technicians currently working in all settings We have full time (37.5 hours) band 5 Pharmacy Technician vacancies in our team working alongside pharmacists in a number of specialities including, Emergency Floor, Cardiology, Infectious Diseases, Respiratory, Renal and General Surgery for many years. You will work as part of the pharmacy team to help deliver a high standard of medicines optimisation to designated wards. You will be responsible for the delivery of safe and cost effective pharmaceutical care to newly admitted patients, as well as facilitating efficient discharge and transfer of patients. You will also rotate through our busy dispensaries. This will need you to have excellent organisational skills in order to undertake this role. You must be able to work accurately, have a good eye for detail, and be able to prioritise your workload, meet deadlines and be committed to the delivery of high standards in a patient focused service. We are open every day of the year our rota’s include weekends, bank holidays and late nights.  

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.