Senior Care Lead Nights

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered Pharmacy Technician to join our busy pharmacy team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT). Primarily working on Royal and Broadgreen sites you will lead a ward based technical team focusing on services to the surgical division, to provide high quality medicines management for the Trust.


You should have significant experience of working as a technician leader in a busy pharmacy environment, ideally with experience of clinical development projects. You will work with our team of pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians and pharmacists to ensure an efficient clinical and supply service is provided to patients and our health care colleagues.


The post will involve the supervision and development of the day-to-day running of the technical ward service. To maintain existing standards and procedures and to help ensure that sufficient technical pharmacy staff are available to always cover the core objectives of the clinical service. Be responsible for the scheduling of the daily workload and ensuring the training needs of staff working in the service are met.


You will have effective communication skills to ensure day to day co-ordination of the ward service.


This is a full time (37.The Pharmacy Department operates a 7-day service.


The successful candidate will be required to participate in weekend, late night and bank holiday rotas.
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.


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To support Dispensary and Ward Based Services in a safe and efficientmanner to ensure operation in line with best practice. To co-ordinate all technical and support staff, organising work schedules and ensure that staff respond to the changing demands during the working day, ensuring an efficient skill mix.To manage the technical staff in the dispensary and on wards to provide adispensing service involving assessment of medicines suitability of safe reuse.Participate in regular Senior Technical Team meetings and cascade torelevant technical and support staff groups.Delivery of dispensing activity to maintain skills including manipulation of raw materials for pharmaceutical extemporaneous preparations using laminar flow cabinets.To work alongside the pharmacy IT team in the management of automatedstorage systems.


Clinical Responsibility To support the provision and development of a technical clinical pharmacyservice as agreed with the Technical Services Manager. This will include To deliver the Medication History Training program carried out by qualifiedtechnicians and pharmacistsChallenging inappropriate prescribingResponsible for ensuring that medicines are available to meet the patientsindividual treatment needs in a safe and timely manner.Facilitate patient discharge in line with departmental procedures to ensureseamless pharmaceutical care across the primary/secondary care interfaceUse the Trusts incident reporting system to report any medication errors. Management of technical and support staff participate in appraisal, sickness absence, recruitment and selection decisions, departmental workload and allocation.In the absence of Technical Services Manager, represent the pharmacyservice on relevant Trust and external committees


Clinical Governance/Quality


Ensure that Clinical Governance across medicines supply aspects of thepharmacy service is performed.To manage enquiries/complaints referring to a Senior Manager whereappropriateEnsure technical and support staff are aware of their responsibilities underhealth and safety legislation and they are appropriately trained and provided with any necessary equipment to carry out their function.Ensure all ward based and dispensary technical and support staff comply with mandatory training requirements and professional registration.


Education and training development To be responsible for the In-House training packages. Ensuring all relevantstaff successfully complete as is required by department policies andprocedures.To foster a culture of continuing professional education and vocationaltraining of all technical and support staff.To deliver appropriate training within the Trust to medical staff and healthcare professionalsDeliver education/training programmes to Trust employees, internal and external to the pharmacy department.


Administration Responsibility Ensure that all rotas for operation of the service, including late night, weekend working and bank holidays are in place.Authorisation of annual leave for technical and support staffManage the destruction and disposal of prescriptions with outside agencies in line with retention of paperwork guidance


Strategic role To form part of the senior technical management team within pharmacy,contributing to the strategic development of services and the new hospital.Organises service provision and strategic planning across the operationalpharmacy service.


HR Management Has knowledge of and works within guidance of all Trust HR policies andproceduresEnsure in-house induction program is delivered to all new technical andsupport staffEnsure Trust policies on recruitment, attendance, equality and diversity,Health and Safety and other national legislation are followed and understood by the pharmacy technical and support staff.
Excellent time management skills
Implement and support new initiatives and actively suggest improvements/change where appropriate
Commitment to Continuing Professional Development
Previous management or supervisory experience
Ability to be creative and inspirational in problem solving
Computer literate


QCF Level 3 in Pharmacy Services in Pharmacy Services (or equivalent) with appropriate underpinning knowledge
Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

QCF Level 4 management qualification (or equivalent)


Evidence of continuous professional development
Proven dispensary and clinical development projects
Effective management of staff

Proven record in management of change
Proven management through delegation and achieving through others

Knowledge of further education courses
Future developments of Hospital Pharmacy

Ability and willingness to undertake further training as necessary

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