Technical Team Leader - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a registered Pharmacy Technician to join our busy pharmacy team at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT).

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Technical Team Leader to work in our clinical team.

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 need to have excellent communication and team working skills.

Leadership and ability to inspire your team will be required in this role to deliver the highest standard of patient centred care.

If you are interested and have what we are looking for to apply, please feel free to get in touch and organise a visit to our department.

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 need to be well organised, able to work using your own initiative, enthusiastic and be pro-active to change.

The role will provide an opportunity for you to develop by attending courses such as coaching development programmes and personal growth programmes.

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

This is a full time (37.5hrs) position based across LUHFT.

The Pharmacy Department operates a 7-day service.

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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Key Responsibilities

Possesses knowledge across a range of pharmacy procedures and practises,
underpinned by theoretical knowledge, experience and relevant practices.

To support Dispensary and Ward Based Services in a safe and efficient
manner 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 a
dispensing service involving assessment of medicines suitability of safe reuse.
To plan the work to maximize efficiency in accordance with agreed priorities particularly to reduce delays at discharge.
Participate in regular Senior Technical Team meetings and cascade to
relevant technical and support staff groups.
Anticipate changes in stock level requirements and liaise with Purchasing
Manager to ensure that all stock levels are appropriate
To deliver the patient counselling program for technicians, pre-registration
pharmacists and student technicians.
To counsel and educate patients and carers on the correct use of their
medication and assess their understanding of the medicines prescribed.

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 automated
storage systems.

Clinical Responsibility
To support the provision and development of a technical clinical pharmacy
service as agreed with the Technical Services Manager. This will include;
To deliver the Medication History Training program carried out by qualified
technicians and pharmacists
Challenging inappropriate prescribing
Responsible for ensuring that medicines are available to meet the patient's
individual treatment needs in a safe and timely manner.
Facilitate patient discharge in line with departmental pro