Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (End date Feb 2026)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 350-TWS6937067-A
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medicines Management Building
- Town
- Maghull
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Information and Formulary Pharmacy Technician
Band 6
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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 ethnic minorities, 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
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 (Halton, Warrington, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton and St Helens) and is 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.
We are looking to appoint an experienced candidate with drive and aptitude to become part of a dynamic and developing Pharmacy Team. We are committed to developing and training our staff and you will work in a supportive environment with training opportunities, to build on your foundation skills and develop your expertise. This post is open to all internal and external staff who work within the Medicines Management and meet the essential criteria.
You will join our dynamic, Trust wide medicines management quality and governance team in providing medicines optimisation, quality improvement and support safe use of medicines across the Trust.
This post is a fixed term post to cover maternity leave. The postholder will work within the Medicines Information and Formulary compliance team but also outreach to support medicines management colleagues working in clinical services.
Shortlisting planned for: 10 February 2025
Interview planned for: 18 February 2025
Main duties of the job
You will be joining the experienced medicines information service based in the pharmacy department at Maghull Health Park. You will be expected to work as part of the multidisciplinary team to support completion of key Medicines Information and Formulary work including answering queries in a timely way using the Medicines Information reference system, supporting complex clinical queries and supporting the Trust with formulary compliance.
You will have the opportunity to develop your practice in a wide range of clinical areas in a large organisation but as part of smaller supportive medicines management teams.
You will be supported in any ongoing studies relevant to the role.
You will be expected to co-ordinate work plans, complete audits, develop training and SOPs, write reports; and lead meetings that are relevant to your role.
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 sustainability, ‘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.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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
- To provide technical support to the Trust’s medicines management team, as the dedicated technician for the medicines information and clinical trials services.
- In accordance with local procedure, to provide detailed clinical and pharmaceutical information in response to queries from pharmacy staff, other healthcare professionals, service users and their carers.
- To perform literature, database and internet searches, and contact external agencies (e.g., pharmaceutical companies, other NHS trusts) as required in order to provide appropriate answers to enquiries.
- To take an active role in the training and development of medicines management staff with regard to medicines information.
- To provide detailed written information to support pharmaceutical care planning.
- To develop and implement policies and procedures relating to the trust medicines information service.
- To liaise with the regional medicines information unit, with regard to service development.
- To develop and maintain medicines information related databases.
- To provide statistics to the regional medicines information unit.
- To oversee distribution of medicines information literature within the trust.
Refer to the job description and person specification for full details
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC/ NVQ level 3 in pharmaceutical science, or equivalent qualification
- BTEC/ NVQ Level 3 in pharmacy service skills, or equivalent qualification
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- BTEC/ NVQ Level 4 in dispensing accuracy checking (or willingness to work towards)
- UKMi Accredited Medicine Information Technicians Training Scheme (AMITTS) (or willingness to work towards)
Desirable criteria
- Good clinical practice (GCP) training
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures within the specialist areas of medicines information and clinical trials, acquired through training
- Experience of CPD
- Experience or knowledge of medicines management services within an NHS context
- Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
- Experience of dealing with complex enquiries knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of medication in mental health services
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the working of organisations
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
- Excellent IT skills, including the use of databases and online information resources
- Excellent communication skills: - written - verbal - listening
- Ability to understand, interpret and respond appropriately to complex information requests
- Ability to undertake effective literature searches
- Ability to explain information verbally in a way that is understood
- Ability to present written information clearly, concisely and accurately
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
- Ability to work individually and to work as a team leader
- Ability to work flexibly
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative
- Ability to work under pressure
- Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
- Professional manner
- Ability to travel between different sites
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Aasha Wynne
- Job title
- Medicines Optimisation and Governance Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07443733870
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