Senior Pharmacy TechnicianNHS

Job summary

The PharmaC Dispensary team at Clatterbridge Cancer Centre in Liverpool has a vacancy for a dynamic, forward thinking and dedicated Senior Pharmacy Technician to join the team.

You will be joining a diverse and professional team, who take pride in providing a high quality and efficient medicines supply service to the Trust, to ensure that patients receive the best care. You will be involved in many different aspects of supplying medicines.

You will need great communication, accuracy and organisational skills, and be able to lead and inspire the team. You must be a qualified Pharmacy Technician with GPhC registration and must hold a valid and current Accuracy Checking Technician certificate. You should ideally have at least a year post qualification experience, but consideration will be given to the right candidate who has less than 1 year.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties:

• To support the Pharmacy Manager & Responsible Pharmacist in supervising day to day running of the pharmacy.
• Dispense prescription medicines to patients, in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
• To carry out accuracy checking of dispensed medicines.
• To supervise pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants and other pharmacy staff as identified.
• To act as a role model, mentor and trainer to other members of staff.
• Take part in the appropriate management of medicines stock.
• Undertake over the counter sales of pharmacy medicines under the supervision of the responsible pharmacist.
• Provide specialist counselling on medicines to patients at the outpatient counter as appropriate.
• Maintain accurate Controlled Drug records in accordance with procedures and take responsibility for resolving any discrepancies in a timely manner.

Job description

Please refer to job description and person specification for details.

Salary information: initial starting point £35,257 per annum pro rata moving to £39,784 per annum upon one years' service and successful appraisal.

For further details / informal visits please refer to the contact information.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC) are one of the UK's leading providers of non-surgical cancer treatment, caring for a population of 2.4 million people across Cheshire & Merseyside. Our flagship specialist cancer hospital in Liverpool opened in June 2020, supported by our sites in Wirral and Aintree.

CPL (as subsidiary of CCC) are here to deliver excellent cancer care to the people we serve and are looking for applications from those who share that commitment and our values.

The successful candidate will require a standard DBS check before employment can commence.

PharmaC strives to provide excellent service with happy staff that are positive, friendly and go the extra mile. Patient feedback consistenly shows that our patients are satisfied/'very' satisfied with PharmaC staff & services, we look to continue to improve our service to satisfy our patients.