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Site: Royal Preston Hospital
Town: Preston
Salary: £23,615 per annum, pro rata for part-time workers
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 17/03/2025
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic, hard-working, and patient-focused person with an interest in pharmacy?
Are you currently working as a pharmacy dispenser in the community and are looking to gain experience in a hospital setting?
If you are keen to join a forward-thinking pharmacy department supporting patient care, we would love to hear from you.
The Pharmacy Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a vacancy for a Pharmacy Assistant – dispensing services.
As an employer, we have earned a reputation for focusing on the development of our staff and for being an organisation people are proud to work for.
The wellbeing of staff is important to us; we have a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team who provide support on a range of topics, run fitness classes, and organise mindfulness sessions.
Main duties of the job
We are one of the largest trusts in the country, providing district general hospital services to people in Preston and Chorley and specialist care (Neurology, Neurosurgery, Burns and Plastics, Oncology, and Renal Medicine) to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and South Cumbria. In addition, we are proud to be the regional Major Trauma Centre providing life and limb-saving treatment for patients throughout Lancashire and South Cumbria.
* Working with pharmacy teams to prepare and supply medicines products directly for patient use
* Stock control including ordering, receipting drug deliveries, stock rotation, expiry checking, and date checking
* Sorting medications, disposing of unwanted medicines, and updating pharmacy computer systems
* Dispensary-based duties
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference to support our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet great people, and do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills and enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold, and help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care, which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties include, but are not limited to:
* Provide an effective medicine supply service to wards/departments and patients of the Trust
* Dispensing medications
* Stock control, stock rotation, expiry date checking, and use of the Pharmacy IT System
* Provide an effective reception service, receiving incoming work and dealing with customer enquiries
* Maintain stock of dispensing sundries and carry out housekeeping duties to maintain good environmental standards
* Support the training and development of the pharmacy team
The core hours of duty are a 7.5 hour shift from 8 am - 19:30 Monday to Friday. Applicants will be expected to participate in weekend and Bank holiday on a rota basis.
This role is cross-site at Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley Hospital.
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
* Maths and English competent / Educated to GCSE level
* NVQ Level 2 Pharmacy Services to include Maintaining Stock and Dispensing Modules
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working in a team
* Knowledge of stock control systems
* Good telephone/communication skills
* Computer experience including good keyboard skills
* Knowledge of Health & Safety
* Experience of working in pharmacy
* Experience of working in a customer-facing role
* Experience of working in a busy environment
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received, so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application, so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity, and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.
To support you in your application process, we’ve created a What we can offer you guide that shows what you can expect when you join our hospitals. The guide includes links to our strategic aims and objectives as well as our values, development support, and rewards and benefits.
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Secondments
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Please note a young person must be in part-time education or training until they’re 18; therefore if you are under 18, we are unable to employ you on a full-time basis unless it is in an apprenticeship role.
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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such, this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020, and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name: James Miles
Job title: Dispensary Team Leader, Chorley Hospital
Email address: james.miles@lthtr.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01257245253
Additional information: Abigail Hickey
Senior Dispensary Assistant, Chorley Hospital
01257245283
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