Pharmacy Assistant

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Pharmacy Assistant to support the dispensary and stores, ensuring safe, efficient patient care on a roster that includes bank holidays and weekends.

The role involves front-of-house duties, stock control, and Omnicell cabinet restocking, with a requirement or willingness to complete NVQ Level 2 in pharmacy service skills.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Service Skills or equivalent is required or willingness to complete.
• Experience with ward stock and dispensing operations is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Answering phone, logging prescriptions, and front-of-house duties.
• Issuing ward stocks and topping up dispensary consumables.
• Sorting returned drugs and managing Omnicell cabinets and stock checks.

Skills

Omnicell

Front desk

Stock control

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Service Skills

Tools

Omnicell system

Job description

The post holder will be responsible for undertaking general duties mainly within the pharmacy dispensary and some pharmacy store duties, to aid in the smooth and efficient running of the department. Bank holidays, Saturdays and Sundays are worked on a rostered basis, under Agenda for Change T&Cs. The Post holder must have or be willing to complete an NVQ level 2 in pharmacy service skills or an equivalent.

Main duties of the job

A - Dispensary

• Reception duties, including answering phone, logging of prescriptions and requisitions, presenting "front of house" duties for staff, patients and visitors, liaising and problem solving for ward staff and patients.
• Issuing ward stocks on non-top up days.
• Top up of dispensary consumables.
• Sorting returned drugs and returning them onto the computer - decision to be made according to defined criterion

B - Pharmacy Stores

• Ward IV fluid top up.
• Stock maintenance
• Receipt of deliveries, checking of delivery notes and reporting anomalies.
• Picking of drugs from lists generated by ward top up personnel or Omnicells and inputting data from picking lists
• Undertake top up of ward and department stocks by visiting the wards and checking the stock in the ward cupboards against a pre set list of medicines and stock levels, and checking expiry dates. This may also include use of Omnicell cabinets.

C - Omnicells

• Restocking of Omnicell items.
• Ensure cabinets are maintained in an orderly fashion, reporting any malfunctions as required.

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development.

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behavior change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

We recruit for values and "Together we are University Hospital Tees