Specialist Pharmacy Technician Manager - Mental Health Services

We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacy technician with an interest in mental health to join our Medicines Management Team. Our Team has secured a significant amount of additional investment to enable the transformation and expansion of clinical inpatient and dispensary services.
It is a great time to join us and help influence the future provision of pharmacy services to our Secure Care Division. Our new model positions pharmacy technicians alongside pharmacists as clinicians and fully integrated members of the multidisciplinary team, optimising medicines for our patients.
This role provides an excellent opportunity for pharmacy technicians seeking a clinical ward-based managerial role as part of a team of pharmacists, technicians and support staff. You will be encouraged to use your skills to influence and improve patient care. You will have the opportunity to develop your expertise in mental health pharmacy in one of only three Trusts in England to provide services to High, Medium and Low secure services.
While this role is predominantly ward-based, you will be expected to maintain your dispensing accuracy checking competencies. You will be required to participate in our weekend and bank holiday rotas. Weekend/Bank Holiday opening hours are 9:30 am-13:30pm and the rota is 1 in 8-12 weeks, depending on staffing numbers.
Shortlisting is planned for 22 October 2024
Interview is planned for 28 October 2024 (exact date TBC), To deliver a high-quality medicines optimisation and pharmaceutical care service to all patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
To support medicines reconciliation, providing a timely discharge service, working alongside the ward and pharmacy team
To be actively involved in providing a seven-day pharmacy medicines management service.
To have managerial responsibility for the day-today operation of ward based technical services, to ensure patients receive their medicines accurately and safely, in a timely manner.
To develop a technician-led clinical ward-based service, including implementing innovative approaches to manage ward-based supply of dispensed medicines.
To ensure optimum use of allocated pharmacy technicians and assess training needs
To support the development and review of ward-based policies and procedures.
To plan and organise ward-based audits and implement any education and training deemed necessary.
To lead or participate in departmental meetings and represent the Medicines Management team at appropriate meetings.
The post-holder will be obliged to participate in our weekend and bank holiday rotas. Weekend/Bank Holiday opening hours are 10am-2pm and the rota is 1 in 8-12 weeks, depending on staffing numbers.
For full information regarding required qualifications and experience please refer to the job description and person specification., 1. On a daily basis, to manage a team of dedicated pharmacy staff in the supply of dispensed medication for inpatients and outpatients, including discharge, weekend leave, self-medication, community prescriptions and the supply of compliance aids and patient information leaflets.
2. To act as a leader within the ward setting.
3. To manage the ordering and supply of controlled stationery e.g., FP10, NMP and FP10MDA-SS to ensure a safe and secure service.
4. To act as a final accuracy checker for individually dispensed prescriptions.
5. To ensure optimum use of the technicians who are allocated to inpatient and community mental health services duties via direct supervision, in order to provide a timely, effective and safe ward-based service.
6. To assess the training needs of the pharmacy technical staff allocated to community mental health and inpatient areas and as part of professional development planning provide competency based training, furthermore to work with the pharmacy training team to ensure that induction and on-going training provided to administrative and support staff, technicians and pharmacists (including foundation pharmacists and undergraduate students) is of the highest quality with regard to community mental health
and inpatient services.
7. To develop an innovative approach to managing the ward-based supply of dispensed
medicines. This will include optimising the supply of short-term leave medication and the re-use of medication, where appropriate.
8. To develop a technician-led clinical ward-based service. This may include counselling of service users and carers.
9. To develop, review and maintain ward-based policies and procedures.
Please refer to the job description for more details.
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We celebrate diversity and promote 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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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."