Job overview
The Pharmacy Department at Bart’s Health covers a population of 2.5 million. We provide clinical pharmacy, medicines management and medicines optimisation services from our four hospital sites across the City of London and East London.
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated and ambitious Senior Pharmacy Assistant to join our dynamic Team. The post holder must be keen to learn and develop with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
You will be joining a diverse and professional team, who take pride in providing a high quality and efficient medicines supply service to the Trust, to ensure that patients receive the best care. You will be involved in many different aspects of supplying medicines.
As part of this role, you will be providing dispensing services, and helping to facilitate a streamlined workflow ensuring key performance targets are met. You will be required to hold the NVQ Level 2 and relevant units in Pharmacy Services (or equivalent qualification) and meet the satisfactory practice-based levels of competency for this role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will assist in the supply and management of prescribed items in the dispensary and on wards, receive and put away stock including dispensary consumables, carry out a pharmacy top-up service to the wards. They will liaise with senior members of dispensary and clinical teams to manage stock appropriately and ensure that short dated stock within the dispensary is moved across sites to high usage areas, when necessary.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
1. •Experience or working in a team
2. •Experience in customer care environment
Desirable criteria
3. •Experience of working in a hospital environment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
4. •Understand customer care issues.
5. •Understand issues involved in stock control
6. •Dispensing and interpreting prescriptions
7. •Understanding of relevant legislation, e.g. Health and Safety, COSHH, Data Protection
Desirable criteria
8. •Interested in and have knowledge of the use of drugs.
9. •Understand the importance of quality issues.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
10. GCSE grades A/C or 1-4 •English Language •Maths •Double Science
11. NVQ QCF Level 2 in pharmacy services