The High-Cost Drugs and Homecare Team at SWBH Pharmacy are seeking a qualified NVQ2 Pharmacy Dispensing Assistant to join our friendly team. This is in readiness for our early 2025 move to our new home at the Sheldon Block Pharmacy, located at what will be our City Health Campus, which will also serve the Birmingham Treatment Centre and The Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre.
Our brand new Midland Metropolitan Hospital is now open so there will be opportunity to gain experience working in their brand new dispensary too.
Experience of working with High-Cost Drugs or Homecare medicines is desirable but not essential as full training will be given in all aspects of our service.
This is no ordinary Dispenser's post as many tasks require you to be office based and working with various spreadsheets and databases. You will also work closely with our clerical assistants, to resolve any queries they may have in relation to the payment of invoices or prescription requests.
If you're up for a change as well as a new challenge, and you possess an NVQ2 Dispenser qualification or equivalent then this post may be just what you're looking for.
Main duties of the job
You will assist in the provision of a High-Cost Drugs and Homecare service to all patients of our Trust to include, dispensing high-cost drugs, carrying out funding checks via the Blueteq Hi-Cost Database, raising homecare requests to generate purchase orders for our homecare patients, carrying out stock checks, updating and maintaining relevant spreadsheets and databases used by the team and helping to resolve queries, relating to invoicing or prescription tracking.
There will be a requirement to work across all of our site dispensaries including the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital as part of a rostered 7-day working pattern.
Person Specification
Experience
* Successfully complete the NVQ level 2 for Pharmacy Assistants.
* Working knowledge of a broad range of medicines and their safety issues.
* Experience of working within a pharmaceutical team.
* To be able to handle safely and competently pharmaceutical equipment and medicines used in the dispensing process.
* Demonstratable experience as an assistant or community-based dispenser required.
* Hospital pharmacy experience
* Experience of High-Cost Drugs and Homecare Medicines
Qualifications
* NVQ2 pharmaceutical science or equivalent dispensing qualification.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of dispensing procedures
* A working knowledge of HASAW and COSHH regulations
* Up to date knowledge of medicines, legislation including the Medicines Act and Dangerous Drugs Act
* Legal requirements for dispensing and supplying medicines
* Portfolio that reflects personal development
* Be able to speak and understand English without the risk of misunderstanding
* Be able to provide patients advice on issues relating to their medicines and pharmaceuticals
* Able to empathise to patients, carers, visitors and staff
* Able to communicate appropriately and effectively with a variety of other healthcare professionals, both internally and external to the Trust
* Be proficient in reading and writing to GCSE or equivalent standard
* Able to present written and verbal information in a clear and logical manner and be proficient in the use of email.
Other skills
* Basic IT skills
* Be able to maintain concentration through frequent interruptions
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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