Employer: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Fairfield General Hospital
Town: Bury
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/11/2024 23:59
Senior Pharmacy Assistant Technical officer – Homecare Services
Band 3
Job overview
To be responsible for the efficient processing of purchase orders and invoicing for homecare pharmaceutical products within the pharmacy stock control system, as part of assisting the senior homecare technician with the receipting of homecare pharmaceutical products.
To support the Senior Pharmacy Technician-Homecare & High-Cost Drugs, Lead High-Cost Drugs, and Homecare Pharmacist in the coordination of homecare medicine services within Bury, Rochdale, and Oldham, the Northern Care Alliance NHS trust.
Main duties of the job
1. To be a point of contact to assist the Homecare technicians within the Trust regarding Medicines home delivery service for Home Care Companies, Pharmacists, Clinicians, Purchasers, Contracting and Finance.
2. To assist with the co-ordination of the pharmacy homecare medicines service and prioritising the workload set by the co-ordinator to ensure problems arising are resolved.
3. To assist the homecare manager, pharmacists, and technicians in ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and current homecare medicines management guidance.
4. To participate in Dispensary working rota.
5. The post holder will be required to follow policies and procedures and communicate effectively as appropriate.
6. To attend departmental meetings with staff members from the multi-disciplinary team.
Unfortunately, this role does not meet the criteria required to qualify for sponsorship.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties and responsibilities, please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Shortlisting Criteria
* Maths and English GCSE or equivalent (A-D grades)
* Microsoft Office experience. Minimum standard Intermediate Excel and Word – preferably Advanced level
* Organisational and time management skills
* NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in Pharmacy Services
* Hospital Pharmacy Experience
* Experience of Pharmacy software (preferably Ascribe/Emis)
Additional Shortlisting Criteria
* Excellent verbal & written communication, including by telephone.
* Ability to work on initiative and as part of a team.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [emailprotected].
For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.
In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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: Faiza Khan
Job title: Senior pharmacy technician-Homecare & High cost
Email address: [emailprotected]
Telephone number: 0161 778 2369
Additional information: Available for calls or informal visits from Tuesday to Friday.
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