Job overview
Hello!
My name is Hannah Wilkins, I am the Senior Pharmacy Technician for the Horton General Hospital Pharmacy. I am privileged to lead our very hardworking, friendly, and committed Dispensary team in providing a dispensary service, supplying inpatient, outpatient, and discharge medication to Patients of the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Pharmacy assistant with a positive outlook to support our team in ensuring that our patients receive the best service possible. The successful applicant will have previous hospital or community pharmacy experience and hold their NVQ level in Pharmacy services or equivalent.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacy assistant role is varied, where you will be required to assist in the smooth running of an assigned area under direction of our Dispensary Co-ordinator and Senior Technician. You will support the training of pharmacy apprentices, trainee technicians and pharmacists working alongside you.
You will support both dispensary and stores functions on the Horton General Hospital site, labelling and dispensing discharge prescriptions, in-patient medication, and controlled drug requests, providing a ward and fluid top up service to clinical areas, receipt deliveries and be involved in stock management procedures including expiry date checking and processing drugs returned from inside the hospital.
The successful applicant will also answer the phone to our service users, and cover both staff and out-patient reception, requiring excellent customer service and communication skills.
Working for our organisation
The dispensary team is a friendly and hardworking team of Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Assistants, Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians & Pharmacy Apprentices. Many of our staff progress from this level to become Pharmacy Technicians or take other roles within the wider Pharmacy team, this role is ideal for gaining that experience to progress further in your career.
This is a fixed term months full-time position hours per week Monday to Friday, with working hours of :-pm. You will also be required to participate in weekend, bank holiday, early and late duty rotas as per rota.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.