Medicines Management and Pharmacy Services (MMPS) offers our team members fantastic career development opportunities, which has led to the progression of previous post holders. We now have an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Pharmacy Services Assistant to join our forward-thinking and generally all-round fantastic Paediatric team based at ward level. This is an excellent opportunity to start a career in hospital pharmacy and to play an important role in being part of a team working to deliver an exceptional service. By taking a patient-first approach and through compassion and commitment, you will focus on helping patients to optimise medicines use by involving them in making decisions about their medicines.
You will collaborate with other teams, communicating effectively to ensure a safe, seamless integrated transfer of care for our patients, providing an integrated delivery of medicines to ensure cost-effective, safe, and appropriate use of medicines.
Expected Shortlisting Date: 28/04/2025
Planned Interview Date: 21/05/2025
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide a variety of duties across the multi-speciality wards, including ordering and receipt of medicines, stock management including returned medicines, labelling & dispensing, liaising with patients and other NHS staff, answering telephone queries, and clerical duties. You will also help to support our main dispensary at peak times.
If you have any special interests, then please feel free to declare these at interview and we will endeavour to support where we can.
About us
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is one of the largest acute trusts in England with MMPS being a highly respected and forward-thinking Pharmacy department. MMPS is recognised in the organisation for our collaborative working, and we continuously support our workforce to develop to their potential in delivering the best patient care.
There are great retail outlets, theatres, Leeds Arena, and many great bars, restaurants, and sports facilities. Along with excellent rail links and Leeds Bradford Airport nearby, Leeds is a fabulous city to live and work in.
The post holder will be required to work evenings, weekends, and Bank Holidays on a rotational basis. This post may involve working across all sites at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Ideally, we are looking for full-time, 37.5 hours a week. However, we do have a flexible approach to the working hours, and this can be over 7 days.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay, or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Job responsibilities
For further information regarding the roles and responsibilities of this post, please read the attached job description.
Person Specification
Skills and Behaviours
* Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
* Holds themselves accountable
* Strong representation of Leeds Way Values
Qualifications
* NVQ/QCF Level 2 Pharmacy Service Skills Certificate or due to complete within the next 3 months.
Experience
* Experience of working in a patient-facing role
* Experience of working with paediatric patients
* Experience of working at ward level
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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