Pharmacy Technician - Dispensary Services | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	20 May 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£26,530 - £29,114 per annum, pro rata
Hours:	Part time
Closing date:	19 June 2025
Location:	Liverpool, L7 8YE
Company:	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7085573/287-DSS-108-25-A

Summary

Join our team as a Pharmacy Technician - Dispensary Services and grow with us!

Working across our Hospital Group you will be based at Aintree University Hospital or the Royal Liverpool Hospital & Broadgreen Pharmacy Departments.

Are you an experienced and dedicated Pharmacy Technician looking to make a real difference in patient care?

Our teams at University Hospitals Liverpool Group are looking for motivated and detail-oriented professionals to join our dynamic hospital pharmacy team.

What You'll Do:
• Support Pharmacists in the preparation, dispensing, and distribution of medications.
• Ensure accurate and timely medication delivery to wards and departments.
• Maintain records, manage stock levels, and uphold strict regulatory compliance.
• Participate in medication reconciliation and assist in clinical pharmacy services.

What We’re Looking For:
• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services Students due to qualify this summer are welcome to apply.
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Previous hospital experience preferred.
• Strong attention to detail, communication skills, and a commitment to patient safety.

Why Join Us?
• Be part of a collaborative and supportive healthcare team.
• Gain access to ongoing professional development and training.
• Contribute to meaningful work that directly impacts patient outcomes

With the support of the Senior Technicians in our dispensaries, you will be required to co-ordinate a team to ensure safe and efficient workflow of the section you are overseeing.

You will need excellent organisational skills to undertake this role. You must be able to work accurately, have a good eye for detail, and be able to prioritise your workload, meet deadlines and be committed to the delivery of high standards in a patient focused service.

You will be expected to share your skills and knowledge to train pharmacy assistants, trainee pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

This is a full time (37.5hrs) position based at our LUHFT sites. 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 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.

For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.

See Job Description for further details:

1) To carry out dispensing of prescriptions, including extemporaneous prescriptions, unlicensed drugs, controlled drugs, in-patient and out-patient prescriptions in accordance with the agreed safe systems of work practice.
2) To participate in the daily stock check processed, adjusting stock level as per local procedures and escalating significant discrepancies to the Senior Technical Team.
3) To participate in the daily “stock to-follows” processes; processing to-follow dispensing and liaison with stores staff for ordering and out of stock medicines.
4) To co-ordinate dispensing teams ensuring efficient workflow and prioritisation on critical medicines.
5) To accuracy check, assembled items e.g. cardiac arrest boxes and controlled drugs after satisfactory completion of the departmental competency training programme.
6) To co-operate in staff rotation within the pharmacy departments of the Trust including the Aseptic Department and out-patient area (site specific).
7) To observe the recommendations contained in the Guide to Good Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Practice and its supplements and to assist in ensuring that work carried out in the department is in accordance with these and any other recommendations which may be issued from time to time by the Department of Health or Medicines Inspectorate.
8) To undertake special dispensing and manufacturing involving the use of aseptic techniques to a suitable standard in preparation of sterile products in accordance with aseptic procedures and under the direction of the Aseptic Services Manager.
9) To undertake cytotoxic reconstitution and dispensing in accordance with the recommendations contained in the Aseptic Production Manual and in accordance with the criteria set out under COSHH regulations and Regional and National Standards.
10) To provide a ‘topping up’ service on wards for individual patient drug supplies under the direction of the Senior Technical Team and in accordance with procedures.
11) To assist in maintaining reasonable stock levels, in accordance with the policies that are in force, in the section of pharmacy in which (s)he is currently employed and to assist in ensuring correct storage and turnover of stock to maintain quality and potency.
12) To provide accurate record keeping of controlled drugs kept in the pharmacy including supplies to wards and departments, orders received into the pharmacy and regular audits of the accuracy of computer and paper records.
13) To answer telephone and face to face queries of a routine or technical nature from a wide range of staff groups, either in the pharmacy or on the ward, and refer appropriate queries to the relevant member of the pharmacy team when necessary.
14) To liaise with various members of the pharmacy team and ward staff when solving problems and ensuring the best service to patients.
15) To ensure appropriate instructions, demonstrations and counselling of patients with regard to their drug therapy, is offered and delivered in a professional manner as advised or directed by the supervising pharmacists and according to the prevailing departmental policies and procedures.
16) To dispense clinical trials in accordance with the dispensing protocol, ICH GCP guidelines and European Directive under the direction of the clinical trials technician/pharmacist (site specific).
17) To act as a role model for student technicians and other members of technical and support staff.
18) To provide mentoring, induction and training of student technicians, pre-registration pharmacists, dispensing assistants and any other relevant members of the pharmacy team.
19) To attend appropriate training courses for technicians, to encourage other staff to undertake further training and to participate in such training schemes as necessary to keep relevant pharmaceutical clinical and technical knowledge up to date.
20) To assist in the receipt and issue of goods in the pharmacy and to check delivery notes and invoices if required.
21) To participate in ward based stock audits under the direction of the Senior Technical Team.
22) To co-operate in the operation and development of computerised systems of stock control and medical speciality costing.
23) To participate in pharmacy objectives set by the Trust, the National Patient Safety Agency, the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, the Department of Health (including the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulation Agency) and others to meet clinical governance targets, develop patient care, improve clinical outcomes and ensure compliance with all standards expected for hospital pharmacy services and the interface between primary and secondary care.
24) To undertake Continuing Professional Development in order to keep pharmaceutical clinical and technical knowledge current, ensure best practice and comply with requirements for entry on the pharmacy technician register.
25) To observe the regulations in respect of the Health and Safety at Work Act and Data Protection Act.
26) To undertake any other related duties, which may be required.


This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Jun 2025