Pharmacy Assistant

Barts Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Pharmacy Assistant at Barts Health NHS Trust in London. You will provide essential dispensing services, ensuring medications are supplied efficiently while working within a diverse and dynamic team dedicated to high-quality patient care. If you possess NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services and have a passion for learning in an ambitious environment, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Must hold NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills required.

Responsibilities

• Provide dispensing services and facilitate a streamlined workflow.
• Assist in the supply and management of prescribed items.
• Liaise with dispensary and clinical teams to manage stock.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services

Job description

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.

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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Prameely Sriramanan Job title: SLPT Email address: [e-mail]