Job summary
TEWV pharmacy team are recruiting dispensing assistants to join our pharmacy at Roseberry Park Hospital, Middlesbrough. The successful applicants will be exceptional team players with good communication and interpersonal skills who are enthusiastic and committed to join our team. Ideally applicants will have previous experience in working within a pharmacy as a dispensing assistant. Applicants own transport is desirable but not essential. This is an exciting time to join a supportive team with development opportunities in a growing NHS pharmacy team.
Main duties of the job
1. To work under pharmacy SOPs to provide a medicines top up and stock management for wards, with supervision available from pharmacy technicians
2. 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.
3. To receive medication supplies from wholesalers and electronically record this.
4. To remove unwanted medication from the wards to determine what is suitable for return or destruction as per policies.
5. To dispense controlled drugs for ward stock and named patients following all legal requirements.
6. To dispense orders for emergency drugs.
7. To maintain cost effective holding on the wards.
8. To ensure good stock control, ensuring stock checks and expiry date checks are completed in a timely manner.
9. 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 us
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 3 localities. The locality teams work independently, but come together to agree standards and best practice, learning from each other and trying to improve.
We developed a 5-year Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy framework which was created with the teams to produce a shared set of themes and priorities. This is 'Our Journey to Change'
Our values are Respect, Compassion and responsibility. If you are a kind, supporting, honest, ambitious team member who thrives on being inclusive and working in partnership - our organisation may be a fit for you.
Date posted
04 November 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,071 to £25,674 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
346-PH-016-24
Job locations
Roseberry Park Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3AF
Job description
Job responsibilities
To assist, under supervision, with routine duties of a technical nature, including the supply and distribution of medicines to trust wards, departments and team bases.
To visit designated wards and departments to provide a ward stock topping up service as part the ward rota working to pharmacy standard processes, ordering medication and maintaining stock supplies.
To support the pharmacy team through the provision of clerical and administrative work.
To be able to competently dispense an array of medication from a variety of order forms.
To be responsible for a range of technical duties in the dispensary to aid in the smooth and efficient running of the department.
To work together with other pharmacy colleagues, in the dispensaries and wards, to provide patients with an accurate and timely supply of medication from admission through to discharge.
To promote at all times a positive image of people with Mental Health conditions and Learning disabilities.
To promote at all times a positive image of both the Pharmacy department and profession and the wider Trust.
Person Specification
Experience in pharmacy
Essential
10. Experience of stock management and customer care
Desirable
11. Pharmacy experience
Qualification
Essential
12. Numeracy and literacy skills (GCSE or equivalent at grade C or above in English and Mathematics)
13. Medicines Counter Assistant Qualification (. NPA or equivalent) or Partial completion of NVQ level 2 in Pharmacy services
Desirable
14. Full NVQ level 2 in Pharmacy services qualification
Skills
Essential
15. Good communication skills
16. Ability to work under supervision and independently
Desirable
17. Experience with the use of appropriate software packages including Excel