Job summary
Our team in Liverpool are recruiting for an experienced Pharmacy Technician, to join them in providing high quality professional medicines management advice and support to our services. If you're a motivated and caring individual, who can demonstrate our core values of being professional, determined and compassionate in your approach to work, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
This role is full time for 37.5 hours per week and will require travel to our 3 services throughout Liverpool.
The postholder will be working within the well-established and award-winning Medicines Management Team, supporting the organisation to ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements. As part of this role, you will deliver safe, efficient, and cost-effective medicines management systems and processes, ensuring that controlled drugs and stationery are handled and stored securely. It will be vital for you to develop strong and positive relationships with key stakeholders for the continuity of service, including organisations such as Local Pharmaceutical Committees, Community Pharmacies and Local Intelligence Networks. You will be joining an increasing workforce of pharmacy professionals across our organisation, with opportunities to attend our regular network meetings and external conferences.
About us
Everyone should feel comfortable getting the support they need for issues with drugs, alcohol or mental health.
At We Are With You we work with people on their own goals, whether that's staying safe and healthy, making small changes or stopping an unwanted habit altogether. We give people support in a way that's right for them either face to face in their local service, community or online.
We provide a free and confidential service without judgement to more than 100,000 people a year.
We use our expertise to improve the help available and raise awareness around drugs, alcohol and mental health so that more people can get support.
We Are With You.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be a compassionate and motivated Pharmacy Technician, registered with the GPhC and holding the NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services BTEC Pharmacy Technician or equivalent. Ideally, you will have a minimum of two years' post qualification experience, although we are open to conversations with all suitably qualified candidates, as full training will be given. Working knowledge of substance misuse would be advantageous.
This is a busy team, with multiple priorities ongoing, so it's important that you are highly organised and able to manage your time effectively. You will have strong problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Above all, we are looking for someone who is passionate about what we do, with a positive and engaging approach to our service users and colleagues. A full job description is available on request.
As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people and armed forces veterans.
As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also Disability Confident Committed and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be a compassionate and motivated Pharmacy Technician, registered with the GPhC and holding the NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services BTEC Pharmacy Technician or equivalent. Ideally, you will have a minimum of two years' post qualification experience, although we are open to conversations with all suitably qualified candidates, as full training will be given. Working knowledge of substance misuse would be advantageous.
This is a busy team, with multiple priorities ongoing, so it's important that you are highly organised and able to manage your time effectively. You will have strong problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Above all, we are looking for someone who is passionate about what we do, with a positive and engaging approach to our service users and colleagues. A full job description is available on request.
As an organisation, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our staff. We know that representing the communities we serve is key to us meeting our goals of radically improving people's lives. We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring and we encourage people from underrepresented communities and backgrounds to apply to join our team, including people with lived experience, people with disabilities, people from racialised communities, LGBTQ+ people and armed forces veterans.
As part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant we provide a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates that are veterans and meet all the essential criteria for a role. With You is also Disability Confident Committed and we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with a disability and meet all the essential criteria for a role.
If you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia or a medical condition which you believe may affect your performance during any aspect of our selection process, we'll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to perform at your best.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- To successfully carry out this role you will need:
- to be a registered Pharmacy Technician with GPhC
- an NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services BTEC Pharmacy Technician (or equivalent)
- evidence of your continuous professional development
- at least 2 years post-qualification experience of working in a pharmacy environment
- experience of providing medicine related advice to service users/carer
Desirable
Experience
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- To successfully carry out this role you will need:
- to be a registered Pharmacy Technician with GPhC
- an NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services BTEC Pharmacy Technician (or equivalent)
- evidence of your continuous professional development
- at least 2 years post-qualification experience of working in a pharmacy environment
- experience of providing medicine related advice to service users/carer
Desirable
Experience
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
