Senior Assistant Technical Officer

Are you an experienced pharmacy assistant who has completed NVQ level 2 in pharmacy services or equivalent?

At LUFHT may have the perfect opportunity for you.

We are looking for a Rotational Senior Pharmacy Assistant who can act as a great role model, provide excellent training and demonstrate our trust values.

You must be able to show great leadership qualities, a broad experience of working in a pharmacy and knowledge and understanding of working in a hospital.

We want to recruit a Senior Pharmacy Assistant who is enthusiastic, motivated who will work to our professional standards to provide an efficient and patient focused service.

All levels of experience within a Pharmacy Assistant role will be considered and salary will be dependent.

You may be required to rotate across all sites of LUHFT.

In the role as a Senior Pharmacy Assistant you must have excellent communication skills, attention to detail and be flexible as you will you will work within our dispensaries and stores alongside pharmacy teams including, pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians and pharmacists.

You will be required to supervise work of pharmacy assistants ensuring work is prioritised appropriately and play a key role in training and development of staff to maintain a quality and standards of work.

You will be required to participate in evening, weekend, and Bank Holiday working in keeping with the Pharmacy Directorate arrangements and the needs of the Trust.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sharon Leahy Job title: Lead Pharmacy Technician Dispensary Services Email address: Sharon.leahy@liverpoolft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 529 2219