Senior Pharmacy Medicines Procurement and Distribution Officer
| Posting date: | 28 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,485 - £30,162 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 August 2025 |
| Location: | Ashton Under Lyne, OL6 9RW |
| Company: | Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7316850/245-HS4PHA-07-25 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Senior Pharmacy Medicines Procurement and Distribution Officer
Band 4 - 37.5 hours
Permanent
The Stores & Distribution role in a pharmacy encompasses maintaining high work standards and ensuring efficient and safe distribution systems. Key responsibilities include ordering essential items to avoid shortages and keeping to-follows lists updated to manage out-of-stock medication and organising workloads. The role involves organising daily stock checks, acting as a super user for pharmacy robots, addressing errors, and assisting in training others.
The role involves keeping ward stock lists current, assisting with product recalls, and performing routine stores duties like ward top-ups. Additionally, it requires maintaining computerised records, tracking expiry dates, and obtaining credits for returned items. Assisting with training new staff and handling procurement and distribution-related tasks, including managing licenses and addressing invoice queries, are crucial aspects of this role. It also involves supporting the Trust Outpatient Pharmacy and collaborating with other pharmacy team members to improve patient care and flow.
1. Undertakes all relevant duties and responsibilities associated with the efficient and effective procurement and storage of medicines
2. Responsible for identifying stock discrepancies and ensuring products for which there are shortages are procured in sufficient quantities to ensure availability for patients when required.
3. Ensures that dispensary stock levels are maintained and stocks are replenished from the pharmacy store.
4. Responsible for ensuring that pharmaceutical products returned from clinical areas are assessed and items returned to stock (which are fit for reuse) or disposed of (if unfit for use) in accordance with COSHH regulations and Trust procedures.
5. Organises the stock checking processes within the department in accordance with local procedures to ensure computer records accurately reflect stock holding.
6. Responsible for monitoring cold storage equipment to ensure temperatures are within the defined limits and ensures that appropriate remedial action is taken as necessary
7. Ensures that storage areas are maintained in an organised, safe and tidy condition in accordance with Health and Safety regulations.
8. Organises a system for checking expiry dates of stock to ensure that stock is rotated so that shorter dated stock is used first and avoid unnecessary wastage. Ensures that out of date stocks reported are disposed of where appropriate and recorded on the pharmacy computer in accordance with local procedures
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
This advert closes on Monday 11 Aug 2025
Senior Pharmacy Medicines Procurement and Distribution Officer
Band 4 - 37.5 hours
Permanent
The Stores & Distribution role in a pharmacy encompasses maintaining high work standards and ensuring efficient and safe distribution systems. Key responsibilities include ordering essential items to avoid shortages and keeping to-follows lists updated to manage out-of-stock medication and organising workloads. The role involves organising daily stock checks, acting as a super user for pharmacy robots, addressing errors, and assisting in training others.
The role involves keeping ward stock lists current, assisting with product recalls, and performing routine stores duties like ward top-ups. Additionally, it requires maintaining computerised records, tracking expiry dates, and obtaining credits for returned items. Assisting with training new staff and handling procurement and distribution-related tasks, including managing licenses and addressing invoice queries, are crucial aspects of this role. It also involves supporting the Trust Outpatient Pharmacy and collaborating with other pharmacy team members to improve patient care and flow.
1. Undertakes all relevant duties and responsibilities associated with the efficient and effective procurement and storage of medicines
2. Responsible for identifying stock discrepancies and ensuring products for which there are shortages are procured in sufficient quantities to ensure availability for patients when required.
3. Ensures that dispensary stock levels are maintained and stocks are replenished from the pharmacy store.
4. Responsible for ensuring that pharmaceutical products returned from clinical areas are assessed and items returned to stock (which are fit for reuse) or disposed of (if unfit for use) in accordance with COSHH regulations and Trust procedures.
5. Organises the stock checking processes within the department in accordance with local procedures to ensure computer records accurately reflect stock holding.
6. Responsible for monitoring cold storage equipment to ensure temperatures are within the defined limits and ensures that appropriate remedial action is taken as necessary
7. Ensures that storage areas are maintained in an organised, safe and tidy condition in accordance with Health and Safety regulations.
8. Organises a system for checking expiry dates of stock to ensure that stock is rotated so that shorter dated stock is used first and avoid unnecessary wastage. Ensures that out of date stocks reported are disposed of where appropriate and recorded on the pharmacy computer in accordance with local procedures
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.
We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ & Disabled people.
Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.
This advert closes on Monday 11 Aug 2025