Overview
Pharmacy Administrator - Homecare
Department: Pharmacy
Band 3 £24,937 - £26,598 per annum
Full-time 37.5 hours per week, all MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working
Interview date: W/C 06.10.2025
For more information or to arrange a visit, please contact Aiza Mubashir (Principal Pharmacist – Homecare and Biologics) at 01908 995715.
Milton Keynes University Hospital, in proud partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital committed to advancing patient care through cutting-edge research and education. With a “Good” rating from the CQC and significant investment underway, this is an exciting time to join our team and grow your career.
As a medium sized general hospital, we provide a full range of general medical and surgical services, including a busy Emergency Department, Maternity, and Paediatrics. As the population of our city and surrounding areas continues to grow rapidly, we are expanding and enhancing our facilities to meet rising demand and improve access to care for all our communities.
We are also proud to offer a growing portfolio of specialist services. In January 2025 we opened our state-of-the-art Radiotherapy Centre, bringing advanced cancer treatment closer to home. Our services also include neonatology, specialist surgical care, and a wide range of diagnostics, supported by the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Whitehouse Health Centre. Further investment is underway, including the construction of Oak Wards – a new ward block featuring two 24-bed wards – and the recently approved Women and Children’s Centre, set to open by 2030.
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Responsibilities
* Provide clerical support to the Homecare team which may include filing, data manipulation, minute taking, organising meetings, producing procedures etc.
* Raise orders against Homecare prescriptions and ensure they reach the Homecare Provider in time for the first delivery.
* Process homecare prescriptions/services and invoices through the JAC pharmacy homecare management system in an accurate and timely manner.
* Monitor and maintain the pharmacy database in relation to Homecare services.
* Undertake any other relevant activities as may be necessary to provide a quality service as required.
* Act as meet and greet for visitors to the department as required.
* Deal courteously with telephone calls from patients, healthcare professionals and any other general enquiries or direct them to the appropriate people. Take messages when required and provide a pleasant and helpful point of contact within a busy department.
* Ability to work under own initiative within the defined processes and procedures.
* Assist the Pharmacy Admin supervisor in the smooth running of the Pharmacy Homecare Service.
* To book out homecare drugs on the Pharmacy JAC computer system against clinically screened prescriptions, to consultant cost centres and to patient codes. This requires in depth knowledge of the pharmacy computer system and attention to detail.
* Maintain the homecare pharmacy database that records all patients within the homecare service.
* Undertake as requested across a broad range of issue ad-hoc projects, sometimes requiring preparation and collation of reports for distribution/ circulation.
* Quality: co-operate with staff in other disciplines to help ensure the safe, effective and economic use of medicines. Maintain full patient confidentiality when dealing with prescriptions and any other sensitive information.
* Trust responsibilities: be part of the Pharmacy team to enable the objectives of the Trust to be achieved. Contribute to the Trust complying with Medicines Management standards, Information Governance, Clinical Governance and Risk Management.
* To be part of the Pharmacy team to enable the objectives of the Trust to be achieved.
Contact and additional information
Please refer to the job description for further details.
We believe success lies in the diversity of our employees and are committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us.
MKUH is committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and as such we offer a range of flexible working practices.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.
MKUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of MKUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.
By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that information from your application will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system. Your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.
Upon commencing employment with the Trust, all employees (except Medical & Dental Staff on national terms and conditions) are subject to a probationary period lasting a period of six months with an option to extend for a further six months to a total of 12 months.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 Oct 2025
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