Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Brompton Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £29,583 per annum inc. Inner London HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/04/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 2
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
This post provides support to Pharmacy stores and distribution at the Royal Brompton Hospital.
Job overview
To provide a professional, efficient and customer focused Pharmacy Portering service that supports the clinical function of the Trust and promotes the health and well-being of patients.
To ensure that staff, patients and visitors are assisted, at all times and in any appropriate matters, in a manner that reflects positively on the Trust and the service.
To interact with other staff and patients both in person and over the telephone and the need to work quickly and accurately under pressure.
To ensure that infection prevention and control is an integral part of service delivery.
Main duties of the job
1. To collect and deliver drugs, boxes, supplies and documentation to Pharmacy and, where required, between Pharmacy and ward and departmental areas.
2. To follow all local policies and procedures to ensure the secure delivery of these articles. To complete, in a timely manner, any urgent requests for collection and delivery of articles between Pharmacy and clinical, outpatient or reception areas.
3. To ensure that all medicines and related documents are transferred in a safe, secure and timely manner. This includes transfers between buildings.
4. To work in Pharmacy stores - receiving and checking orders ensuring that they are correct before entering on to the Pharmacy computer system and putting away, process dispensary requisitions and to follows, process ward and department orders and to follows, check returns from wards, and if suitable return to Pharmacy stock.
Working for our organisation
On 1st February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals became part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Together, we are taking our first steps towards our vision of creating a brand-new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease in patients from pre-birth to old age.
Person specification
Skills
Experience
* Experience of working with the public
* Experience of working in a customer service environment
* Math and English GCSE grade C or above
* NVQ level 2 in pharmacy services
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitably according to their needs.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
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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.
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