Are you looking for a new challenge & an opportunity to develop more from your role? We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and ambitious Senior Pharmacy Assistant to join our team at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
This is a fixed term band 3 position working on a rotational basis throughout various clinical areas of the site including inpatient dispensary, cardiac, oncology and respiratory. It will involve working closely with nurses and healthcare professionals, helping to maintain good stock control and promoting adherence to the safe and secure handling of medicines.
The post holder will be a team player and keen to continue to improve quality standards within the department. This position offers the opportunities to learn new skills whilst gaining experience in a medicines management environment. Day to day duties will include the dispensing of medicines at ward level, transcribing of medicines and POD checking. You will be supported in your role to complete these aspects of the MOPs accreditation.
We welcome applications from pharmacy assistants who hold an NVQ level 2 qualification in pharmacy services. You must possess excellent interpersonal, problem solving and time management skills and be able to work with a wide range of professionals.
Main duties of the job
The key focus of this role is to provide safe and secure stock control within pharmacyinpatients and chemotherapy dose banding dispnesary, wards and clinical areas. They will assist in the supply and dispensing of prescribed items, receive and put away stock including dispensary consumables. The post holder will provide an efficient and effective administrative service, operational and finance support, as well as undertake project work to enhance the service. The post holder will rotate throughout the site and clinical areas and department to gain experience in all areas which includes support in a patient facing role, dispensaries and in the pharmacy distribution area to receive goods from across site, wholesalers and manufacturers. The post holder will be expected to work with minimum day to day supervision and to use their initiative and be proactive when issues arise. Regular communication within the team needs to be maintained in relation to working practices, procedures and any changes. A good working relationship with colleagues and other healthcare staff needs to be fostered and maintained at all times.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BTEC Level 2 Certificate in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Support Staf
* HEE Medicines Optimisation programme or equivalent ie competent to assess PODS and transcribe and order from drug charts
Experience
* Experience in customer care environment
* Experience of working in a pharmacy team
* Demonstrable stock management experience
* Experience of working in a hospital environment
* Experience of training others
Knowledge
* Good understanding of filing systems and data management procedures
* Understanding of relevant legislation, e.g. Health and Safety, GDPR, Data Protection
* Understanding of the importance of adherence to procedures and legislation Understand the importance of selforganisation and accuracy.
* Understands issues surrounding customer care and quality
* Interested in and have knowledge of the use of medicines
* Understanding of stock control systems Understanding of the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
* Demonstrates understanding of patient safety initiatives
* Knowledge of medicines management systems at ward level
* Knowledge of Safe and Secure Handling of Medicines requirements
Skills
* IT skills; Able to use Excel and Word proficiently
* Able to plan own work and the supervision of others in a clear and organised way.
* Able to work alone or as part of a team with different grades of staff.
* Attention to detail and accuracy.
* Able to work to policies and procedures.
* Able to perform calculations. Good time management skills; Able to meet deadlines.
* Able to communicate well with all members of the team (internal and external to Pharmacy) and externally with customers in a confident manner
* Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, including on the telephone
* Able to prioritise own work Confident to work unsupervised, takes initiative and uses own judgement in anticipating and dealing with queries and problems
* Able to work calmly under pressure and to deadlines
* IT skills; Able to use Excel and Word proficiently
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.
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