Responsibilities
* To work under pharmacy SOPs to provide a medicines top up and stock management for wards, with supervision available from pharmacy technicians.
* To dispense medication against prescriptions and requisitions, calculating appropriate doses and doses for both inpatient and outpatients following SOPs, ensuring prescriptions and requisitions are legal and safe.
* To receive medication supplies from wholesalers and electronically record this.
* To remove unwanted medication from the wards to determine what is suitable for return or destruction as per policies.
* To dispense controlled drugs for ward stock and named patients following all legal requirements.
* To dispense orders for emergency drugs.
* To maintain cost effective holding on the wards.
* To ensure good stock control, ensuring stock checks and expiry date checks are completed in a timely manner.
* Maintain up to date knowledge and competency in the skills required to perform safely and effectively in the role and to undertake relevant statutory and mandatory training and to be responsible for personal development agreed with line manager.
About the role
Working for our organization: The pharmacy team in TEWV has over 100 team members including drivers, pharmacy assistants, administration, nurses, pharmacy technicians and pharmacists. Individual team members are spread across multiple sites, with a dispensary in each of our three localities.
TEWV pharmacy team are recruiting a dispensing assistant to join our pharmacy at West Park Hospital, Darlington. This new post will allow the successful candidate to progress from a band 2 to a band 3 senior pharmacy assistant after completing the relevant criteria required.
Qualifications
* Exceptional team player with good communication and interpersonal skills. Enthusiastic and committed to join our team.
* Previous experience working within a pharmacy as a dispensing assistant is desirable but not essential.
* Own transport is desirable but not essential.
* Knowledge of pharmacy dispensing operations and medication safety.
Benefits & Visa Sponsorship
We are able to offer sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility. Please review the job eligibility guidance for skilled workers here: Skilled Worker visa: Your job - GOV.UK and for the Health and Care Worker visa here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK.
Additional Information
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the protection of staff, service users and visitors to the Trust from second hand smoke and currently operates a no smoking policy which ensures all buildings and grounds are smoke free.
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