Advanced Pharmacy Homecare Assistant Technical Officer
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Do you enjoy being part of a well-motivated, patient-focused team?
Are you well-organised, with excellent communication skills?
Are you interested in being part of a growing service within Pharmacy, providing medicines delivery to patients?
If your answer is yes to any of the above, then we have an exciting opportunity available within our Pharmacy department at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), to join the expanding Homecare Team. We are seeking a highly motivated individual with effective administration skills to enable our service to grow.
As part of the Pharmacy homecare service team, you will help to provide the cost-effective, efficient procurement service to the Trust for homecare medicines. You will be part of a well-motivated team, ensuring patients receive their medication delivered directly to their home in a safe and timely manner.
Main duties of the job
You will be required to oversee the handling of prescriptions for homecare medicines and liaise between the pharmacy, clinicians, patients, and commercial providers to ensure effective and safe delivery of medicines to patients. The ability to prioritise workload, alongside effective organisation, are essential qualities to carry out your role.
Good communication skills will enable you to deal effectively with patient queries, solving problems in an understanding and sensitive manner, whilst at all times maintaining patient confidentiality.
Requiring an aptitude for accuracy and attention to detail, you will participate in purchase order processing, including matching invoices and credit notes, as well as ensuring discrepancies/non-compliance with homecare delivery are investigated and errors recorded appropriately.
The ability to use a range of data sources and office software is required to enable accurate generation of financial reports and maintenance of contract pricing, as well as collation of key performance indicators.
About us
Our vision is simple
To provide excellent care to our communities we serve.
We're looking for people who want to help us achieve this vision, who will help us make a difference.
What can SaTH Pharmacy offer you?
* Patient-focused service
* Supportive and friendly team
* Opportunities for personal development
* A department open to new ways of working
What can working within the Homecare Team offer you?
* To be part of an expanding service; enabling patients to receive medicine delivery in their home, whilst managing their chronic conditions.
* To work with a patient-focused team, striving to achieve the highest standards of patient care.
What can SaTH offer you?
* To be part of a trust embarking on a transformational journey.
* A supportive environment to enable further development of your career and your skills.
* A developing Trust with recent substantial financial investment to develop the facilities and services.
* Access to our Leadership Academy.
We believe in ensuring our patients have a positive experience of care. Join the team and help us to create the best possible outcomes for our patients.
Job responsibilities
For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* NVQ Level 3 in Administration or equivalent relevant qualification
* Evidence of Continual Professional Development
* Certificate in purchasing and supply level 3 or equivalent knowledge
* Level 3 OCR (RSA) Text production and word processing or equivalent
Experience
* Excellent Microsoft Office skills and the ability to use different and varied computer systems
* Participation in change or developing services
* Experience of hospital pharmacy
* Supervisory experience
* Experience of dealing with patients and commercial non-NHS providers
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.
Salary: £26,530 to £29,114 per annum / pro rata
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