Pharmacy Technician Medicines Safety

We are looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic, and organised Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy Medicines Safety, Optimisation and Governance Team at LUHFT. This postholder will work within the pharmacy medicines safety team, taking lead responsibility for 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. As the successful candidate you would be responsible for supporting the Pharmacy Medicines Safety Team with the development and implementation appropriate systems and processes to evaluate and improve practice, utilising a range of quality improvement techniques. Extensive 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., Lead action to improve compliance with controlled drug and medicines storage standards in line with legislation, in liaison with the Lead Pharmacist/Technician Medicines Safety.

• Pro-active identification, resolution and escalation of clinical governance/risk management issues relating to medicines management within the pharmacy department and Trust wide
• Design, undertake and support delivery of required outcomes from audit, improvement and research projects.
• Develop standardized medicines incident reporting, including analysis and co-ordinating appropriate narrative for Trust reports.
• Through education, training and communication raise awareness and upskill staff to ensure best practice in all aspects of pharmacy and medicines management.,
• Lead for coordinating action across the Trust to improve compliance with controlled drugs and medicines storage standards in line with legislation, in liaison with the Lead Pharmacist/Technician Medicines Safety. This role will be responsible for:
+ Provision of specialist advice, tools and upskilling of pharmacy/multi-disciplinary teams across the Trust to enable them to address safe storage requirements when clinical areas are moved/re-designed. + Developing and undertaking audits to assess compliance with CDs and storage standards for controlled drugs and other medicines; and engaging teams Trust-wide to improve practice.
• Act as a point of contact and resource for pharmacy, medicines management and storage issues, audit and improvement projects, and health and safety.
• Support the Divisional/Trust governance leads in recording, monitoring and feeding back on safety issues, incidents (clinical and non-clinical) and risks within the Division.
• Represent the medicines safety team at Trust meetings and at relevant pharmacy department section meetings to provide specialist safety and quality guidance and ensure best practice.
• Undertake medicines safety incident investigations within pharmacy, developing appropriate preventative actions and lessons learned.
• Support the reporting of clinical and non-clinical incidents and 'near misses' across the organisation.
• Assist in the development of a just and learning culture by engaging managers and staff to identify system failures which contribute to incidents.
• Make a significant contribution to the development of medicines safety improvement strategies and annual plans.
• Design and undertake audit, research and improvement projects within the Department/Trust wide. Collecting, interpreting and analysing data; developing improvement actions; engaging stakeholders and evaluating effectiveness.
• Initiate service/quality improvement ideas and play a key role in generating a culture of continual improvement within the department.
• Support actions in response to National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) alerts and notices and ensure that responses are provided to required timelines.
• Deputise for Lead Pharmacist/Technician Medicines Safety to ensure the medicines safety agenda is delivered in line with trust priorities and timelines.
• Represent the Pharmacy Department in Trust-wide meetings and provide specialist guidance, to ensure high standards of governance are consistently practiced, 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.
  
  
• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences (or equivalent)
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Accredited accuracy checker
• Extensive experience working as a qualified Pharmacy Technician, including in a leadership role.
• Significant previous experience and knowledge of working in a hospital pharmacy
• Experience with designing and delivering training for different staff groups
• Experience in writing and reviewing policies, procedures and guidance by interpreting national legislation, policy and guidance
• Experience with medicines safety/clinical governance work
Desirable criteria
• Leadership/management qualification
• Quality improvement qualification or demonstrable training
• Experience of designing, undertaking and supervising audits and service evaluation projects, including developing improvement plans
• Experience of writing business cases and options appraisals, Excellent written skills
Desirable criteria
• Advanced skills in presenting information utilising a range of applications
• Comprehensive understanding of Microsoft packages, including as minimum Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access, Accurate and methodical with good attention to detail, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday. The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve 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. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. 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. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. 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 organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.