Company Description
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Job Description
Band 3: £24,071 - £25,674
Hours: 37.5 per week
Contract: Permanent
An exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and passionate team has become available at our Regional Drug Procurement Centre.
As a Pharmacy Support Worker you will assist in providing support to deliver the supply of pharmaceuticals to Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHU) and carry out the receipt and distribution of wholesaling activities from the Regional Drug Purchasing Centre (RDPC) to external customers. You will help to maintain the standards required by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to keep the department’s wholesaler dealer licence and reputation with customers. You will also ensure that the RDPC maintains the standards required by the Home Office in order to keep the department’s Controlled Drug licence.
The Pharmacy procurement and wholesale distribution team processes orders, receipts, checks, picks, packs, and delivers over 5 million medicines each year. The team operates as a trading short-line NHS wholesaler, picking orders for ward boxes that are supplied to the hospital and acting as first line responders to stock shortages by investigating alternative supply routes so that patient care and treatment is not compromised. The unit holds an MHRA wholesaler dealers’ licence and is subject to Good Distribution Practice (GDP) regulations and MHRA inspections.
Qualifications
Essential:
* Good education standard e.g. GCSE’s in English and Mathematics or equivalent
* Willingness to undertake in-house and Trust training essential for the post
Desirable:
* Previous experience in a similar role
* Experience of stock control/handling
* Fork-lift driving licence – training provided
* Full clean UK driving licence
Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Seniority level
* Not Applicable
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Other
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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