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Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Harefield Hospital | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,622 - £30,225 p.a. inc. Outer London HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 April 2025 |
| Location: | Harefield, UB9 6JH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7050085/196-LIS9346 |
Summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking individual to join Harefield Hospital Pharmacy team. You will provide a professional, efficient and customer focused dispensing and supply service.
The successful candidates will have good interpersonal skills, with the ability to work to a high standard within the team or on their own initiative. Main tasks will include;
• Rotating between dispensary and distribution areas, as required for the need of the service,
• To undertake accurate dispensing of prescriptions for inpatients and outpatients,
• To assist in stock management including medications that have been used out of hours,
• Working together with patient services team to ensure that non-medicinal stock is replenished in a timely manner,
• Helping to reduce patient wait times and help improve the patient’s hospital experience,
• To respond to telephone and face to face enquiries of a routine nature from patients, their representatives, members of the public and a wide range of staff groups and referring queries to the relevant member of the pharmacy team when necessary,
• To assist distribution in their daily tasks. This may include, but not limited to, ward top ups, picking stock lists, Omnicell top up and maintenance, BOC gases and Robot maintenance.
This post rotates between providing dispensing and administration support to the dispensary and working in the pharmacy stores and distribution, including at weekends, at Harefield Hospital.
To participate in inpatient and outpatient dispensing, following departmental procedures
To interact with other staff and patients both in person and over the telephone and the need to work quickly and accurately under pressure
To participate in ward and department topping up and ensuring appropriate stock rotation
To ensure that infection prevention and control is an integral part of service delivery
Harefield Pharmacy department is a friendly welcoming team, who support their staff.
We work closely with our counterparts at Royal Brompton, Evelina, Guy's and St. Thomas's Hospital Pharmacies, to ensure our patients get the best possible treatment for their lung and heart conditions.
Our core values are:
• We are caring, ambitious and inclusive
• To work effectively as a member of the Pharmacy team
• To communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals, patients and members of the public
• To carry out reception duties including the answering of the telephone and receiving prescriptions from staff and patients in a courteous manner, referring to Pharmacy Technicians or Pharmacists when appropriate
• To process prescriptions from Epic, our electronic integrated system,
• To undertake accurate dispensing of prescriptions for inpatients and outpatients, in accordance with current dispensing procedures. This will include Controlled Drugs and Clinical Trials with appropriate training
• To assist the Senior Pharmacy Technicians Patient Services to maintain efficient stock control
• To participate in Bank Holiday and weekend working on a rotational basis
• To assist with the distribution of stock to the wards and departments.
• To be responsible for topping up Pharmacy stock on assigned wards and ensuring the ward stock is correctly stored and stock rotated liaising with ward pharmacists, pharmacy staff and ward staff
• To participate in the daily stock checks
• To help investigate fridge deviations using the CheckIt fridge monitoring system
• To take part in the training of Pharmacy and hospital staff as required
This advert closes on Sunday 16 Mar 2025