Main area: Pharmacy - Medicines Safety Team
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Cross-site role)
Job ref: 287-DSS-529-24
Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Liverpool University Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/12/2024 23:59
Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and organised Pharmacy Technician with an interest in medicines safety and controlled drug (CD) governance to join our Pharmacy Medicines Safety, Optimisation and Governance Team at LUHFT.
This postholder will work within the pharmacy medicines safety team with an emphasis on controlled drug (CD) management, supporting the lead and senior Medicines Safety Technician in key aspects of the work programme to improve compliance with CD and medicines storage standards.
Medicines safety and improvement is our priority. We are looking for a committed technician with excellent communication skills to work within multidisciplinary teams, providing specialist advice and guidance to improve the management of medicines in pharmacy and across the Trust.
The growing Pharmacy Medicines Safety team is friendly, supportive, and patient safety is at the heart of everything we do. The Pharmacy Department is large, innovative, and ever developing with lots of opportunities to progress.
Experience and knowledge working as a registered pharmacy technician in a hospital pharmacy are key for this post to support delivery of the best quality and safest care to patients.
Main duties of the job
* Support the safe management of CDs across the Trust by undertaking proactive monitoring of CDs, resolving CD balance discrepancies, and helping to co-ordinate and data collect the pharmacy CD audits.
* Support the Pharmacy incident management processes by collating data, undertaking analysis, producing reports, and presenting data in a variety of ways.
* Contribute to medicines incident investigations including formulating, delivering, and following up on action plans.
* Deliver shared learning from incidents by contributing to safety newsletters and providing education and training to the multidisciplinary teams.
* Take part in the dispensary and ward-based pharmacy services on a sessional basis, supervising junior technical staff.
Qualifications and Experience
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and BTEC Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences with appropriate underpinning knowledge
* Accredited Checking Qualification
Knowledge
* Understanding of the importance of incident reporting, review, action, and shared learning
Skills
* Pleasant and helpful attitude
* Microsoft Computer Package including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access
Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.
Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieving fair, equitable, and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment.
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge, and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community.
This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people, and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisation's safeguarding policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.
All employees (and volunteers) are expected to maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training.
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