Pharmacy Administrative Assistant | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday

NHS pension

Blue Light Card

Relocation package

Season ticket loans

Staff discounts

Job summary

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Pharmacy Administrative Assistant to join the administrative team supporting the pharmacy department and medicines optimisation services. You will provide clerical support, manage correspondences, and liaise with internal and external stakeholders to maintain a professional Trust image.

The role emphasises confidentiality, organisational skills, and teamwork, with flexible working options and development opportunities within the

Qualifications

• Experience providing clerical support in a health or public sector setting.
• Ability to manage confidential information and meet deadlines.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the procurement function of the pharmacy department.
• Provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Senior Pharmacy Management Team.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders and maintain a professional image of the Trust.
• Act as the primary contact for the pharmacy and medicines optimisation team for communication.

Skills

Administrative support

Secretarial duties

Communication with stakeholders

Team player

Flexible working

Tools

Pharmacy IT system

Office equipment

Job description

Pharmacy Administrative Assistant | Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Are you interested in becoming a part of a dedicated admin team? Are you friendly, flexible and enthusiastic? Do you have an interest in improving the service that we as a pharmacy deliver to our patients throughout Essex and beyond?

If you have answered 'Yes' to the above questions then we have the job for you!

EPUT Pharmacy is looking for a dynamic addition to our already stellar administrative team who play an integral part in the clerical support of our county spanning service.

• To provide administrative support to the procurement function of the pharmacy department.
• To provide comprehensive and effective secretarial and administrative support to the Senior Pharmacy Management Team and members of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation team.
• To communicate with internal and external stakeholders, and maintain a professional image of the Trust at all times.
• To act as the primary point of contact for the pharmacy and medicines optimisation team for internal and external communication, screening calls/visitors as appropriate.

Valuing you. Recognising your dedication. At EPUT, we look after you.

• Receive supervision and support to help you fulfil your potential.
• Join an inclusive EPUT community and connect with others through engagement events and equality or champion networks.
• If you need help, we provide mental health and wellbeing services, occupational health advice and counselling.
• We run recognition awards to recognise staff's hard work and dedication.
• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service.
• Excellent pension of up to14.5% of your pensionable pay.
• Staff discounts include Blue Light Card, NHS discount offers, and staff benefits.
• £8K relocation package if you move to Essex to join us
• Season ticket loans are interest-free to cover the cost of travelling to and from work via tram, rail, or bus.

Work that wraps around your needs

• Flexible working: available from day one for most roles.
• Job share: Applications for job shares are welcomed.

• To ensure that invoices and credit notes from pharmaceutical wholesalers and manufacturers are reconciled within the Pharmacy IT system in an effective and timely manner, chasing suppliers for outstanding documentation, and bringing issues to the attention of the lead pharmacy technician for procurement, Dispensary Manager, Stores Manager or Pharmacy Business Operations Manager, if they cannot be resolved.
• To provide a secretarial support service to the Senior Management Team and members of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation team, ensuring strict confidentiality at all times. To undertake word processing including the typing and lay‑out of complex reports and correspondence.
• To use required technology such as scanners, laptops and projectors to provide support for team members as and when required.
• To communicate on a daily basis with the all levels of pharmacy staff on operational issues.
• To seek, at all times, to be effective and efficient and to enhance the quality that these services provide to all its customers, thereby assisting them to provide a high quality service to patients and clients.
• To undertake correspondence and arrange meetings as required in relation to complaints, investigations and deal with any sensitive matters in a confidential manner.
• To maintain a diary system for the members of the pharmacy Senior Management Team.
• To create, maintain and operate information databases and bring forward systems. To monitor responses required from the brought forward system, and action independently where appropriate.
• To assist with the monitoring, chasing and actioning of performance reports and activity.
• To ensure that all staff files, relevant documentation and supporting papers are filed and stored appropriately, to ensure all relevant information is displayed appropriately.
• To identify deadlines, to prioritise workload to meet internal and external deadlines, to manage workload with minimal supervision.
• To process all incoming and outgoing correspondence, ensuring rapid and appropriate distribution of information, and to co‑ordinate responses.
• To respond to internal and external correspondence independently, on behalf of the Senior Pharmacy Management Team or in their absence, as agreed and where judged to be appropriate, including e‑mail.
• To organise and control effective filing systems for correspondence, reports, handouts and other general information maintained by the pharmacy and medicines optimisation services.
• To use initiative, in the absence of the Senior Pharmacy Management Team to action incoming queries from internal and external sources, or to bring to the attention of the appropriate person. Where this is not immediately possible, to ensure that holding responses are sent before further discussion with the Senior Pharmacy Management Team to use initiative in a prompt manner to provide a smooth line of communication.
• To receive and deal with telephone and e‑mail enquiries.
• To arrange meetings, book rooms and distribute papers as requested.
• To receive and sort out incoming post and distribute/circulate appropriately. To prepare and organise all outgoing post.
• To be responsible for ordering and maintaining the office stationery needs of the pharmacy team.
• To assist with all photocopying required by the teams.
• To develop and maintain a good working relationship with all internal and external contact and to be professional, flexible and a team player.
• To co‑ordinate the positive returns for the pharmacy and medicines optimisation service, ensuring those that relate to the Chief Pharmacist’s direct reports are forwarded to the PA to the Chief Pharmacist for submission. Maintain personnel files for the all staff to include annual leave and sickness records, travel claims, payroll returns, supervision and appraisal records.
• To have a flexible approach to the hours of work to meet the needs of the job.
• To undertake any relevant internal and external training as required, including the Trust’s mandatory training.
• To take minutes of team meetings, transcribe them and disseminate them to all appropriate team members.