Pharmacy Assistant

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits as a pharmacy assistant at a leading NHS teaching trust. Join a dedicated team at the John Radcliffe Hospital, where you will provide essential support in the dispensary, ensuring high standards of patient care. This role is ideal for individuals with a background in pharmacy, whether from a hospital or community setting, who are eager to enhance their skills in a dynamic environment. With a commitment to compassionate excellence, you will play a vital role in delivering pharmacy services while enjoying opportunities for training and professional growth. If you're passionate about healthcare and ready to make a difference, this position is for you.

Qualifications

• Must have NVQ level 2 in pharmacy services or equivalent.
• Experience in hospital or community pharmacy preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support dispensary operations and manage stock effectively.
• Deliver high-quality pharmacy services to patients.

Skills

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Teamwork

Initiative

Ability to Work Under Pressure

Respectfulness

Education

NVQ2 in Pharmaceutical Sciences

GPhC Accredited Training

Tools

Pharmacy Computer System

Microsoft Office

Job description

Band 5 Nurse and Band 2 Healthcare Support Worker recruitment is centralised, meaning when you apply you will be considered for a number of roles across the Trust. If you have any questions please email: [e-mail].

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and proactive pharmacy assistant with excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills to join the John Radcliffe dispensary team.

This post would suit somebody with either a hospital pharmacy background, or with community pharmacy experience wishing to make a change into the hospital environment, for which appropriate training will be provided. You must have successfully achieved the relevant units of pharmacy services skills NVQ level 2 (QCF) or an equivalent GPhC accredited training programme. Applications for part-time/flexible working considered.

Main duties of the job

Key roles include:

• Work in reception area taking in prescriptions
• Delivery of high-quality pharmacy services for out-patients and day treatment patients
• Labelling and dispensing prescriptions
• To be aware of and be involved in customer service
• Patient counselling
• Working as part of a team.

About you:

• You will respond to enquiries and requests from staff, patients and carers and ensure appropriate and accurate information is readily available, and to escalate questions and problems to other members of the pharmacy team when needed. You will be expected to form good working relationships with staff from all the different groups within the Clinical teams and work together as part of a team.
• You should ideally have experience of working as a qualified Pharmacy Dispensing Assistant, using computer systems for dispensing and stock control and have good communication, be well organised and able to use your own initiative.

Working for our organisation

Find out more about Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at www.ouh.nhs.uk.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Dispensary:

• To provide daily support to the dispensary workforce.
• To use the pharmacy computer system to produce dispensing labels and to make stock issues, receipt, and transfers.
• To dispense inpatient, outpatient clinical trial and controlled drug prescriptions according to dispensary procedures.
• To assist the Stock Management Team with unpacking deliveries and filling the automated dispensing system.
• To participate in conducting of regular Controlled Drug stock checks alongside a Registered Technician.
• To be responsible for putting away dispensing stock including part packs and maintaining tidy storage areas.
• Maintaining equipment used in the dispensing process.
• To participate in the training and induction of pre-registration students and ATO’s.
• To participate in the audit and development of the dispensary service.
• To provide reception cover as per the Dispensary rota, and to answer the telephone and direct queries as appropriate.

General role:

• To provide training, including induction, to pharmacy support staff as required
• To undertake in-house and/or external training appropriate for the role
• To complete reports and audits as requested
• To participate in a programme of work-based training, development, and appraisal.
• To ensure confidentiality is always maintained.
• To maintain a tidy and clean working environment.
• To participate in early and late duties, evening, weekend, and bank holiday working according to the departmental rotas.
• Any other duties as requested by the Lead Pharmacist, Ward Based Technician Manager or Clinical Director of Pharmacy and Medicines Management.

Person specification

Qualities

• NVQ2 in pharmaceutical sciences
• Experienced dispenser
• Experience of stock management
• Able to work as part of a team and independently
• Able to use own initiative appropriately
• Willing to travel between sites
• Enthusiastic and responsible attitude
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Adaptable to change
• Respectful towards colleagues and patients
• Willing to work in clinical areas with infectious diseases patients
• Previous NHS experience
• Experience of using the local pharmacy computer system
• Experience of hospital pharmacy
• Well organised
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs
• Experience of a changing work environment

COVID-19:

The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.

Nursing and Midwifery:

For candidates applying from outside the UK: Please be advised that we work in partnership with Envertiz who will be managing your recruitment therefore by applying you are consenting to us passing your contact details and application to Envertiz so they can manage your recruitment and on-boarding. If you do not consent to this, please do not apply.

Probation Period:

This post is subject to a 6 month probationary period. If you currently hold a contract of employment with the Oxford University Hospitals, this will not apply.

Referencing:

When providing employment reference details please provide correct work related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your first referee will need to be your line manager, supervisor or clinical lead from your current or most recent post or place of study.

Next Steps:

Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification, and that your supporting statement reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria. Candidates selected for interview will be contacted after the short-listing process, usually within 2 weeks.

No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name: Rebecca Somerville Job title: Senior Pharmacy Technician Email address: [e-mail]

For further details / informal visits contact:
Rebecca Somerville: [e-mail]