Pharmacy Porter - Bank

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Leeds is seeking a Pharmacy Porter to support the distribution of medications within the inpatient pharmacy. The role requires flexibility, communication skills, and the ability to handle physical tasks efficiently. Candidates should have GCSEs or equivalent and experience in a patient-focused environment. This position offers varied shifts between 9am and 10pm across 7 days.

Qualifications

• Experience in a patient-focused environment.
• Ability to work in a physically demanding role.
• Literate and numerate.

Responsibilities

• Distribute pharmaceuticals to wards and departments.
• Remove waste and recycling to skips.
• Maintain effective communication with patients.

Skills

Knowledge of Health & Safety

Ability to work under own initiative

Good organisational skills

Customer care training

Ability to adapt to change

Education

GCSEs or equivalent

Job description

Areyou passionate about providing an efficient medicines supply service toinpatients in our hospital?

Ourbusy, friendly dispensary team work hard in a fast paced but supportiveenvironment to provide an excellent medicines supply service.

Wehave an as and when vacancy for a Pharmacy Porter within Medicines Managementand Pharmacy Services team. This post is based in the Inpatient Pharmacy atthe LGI and St James University.

Shifts/Hoursrequired are varied between 9am and 10pm over 7 days a week.

Main duties of the job

Thepost holder will provide a variety of duties including:

Distributionof Pharmaceuticals to wards and departments - this includes pushing trolleysand cages across the site from pharmacy to wards and departments

Prioritisingworkload to ensure urgent medicines are dealt with as a priority

Obtainingsignatures for receipt of medicines

Recyclingof medicines

Removalof waste, cardboard and recycling to skips

About us

Leedsis a wonderful city to work in and LTHT is an organisation that puts itspatients first and highly values and supports its staff.

Pharmacyis a forward thinking department that values the contribution of all ourstaff. There are plenty of opportunities to progress within different areasof our pharmacy services should you wish to.

Thedispensary teams are friendly and extremely supportive teams working as partof the larger Medicines Management & Pharmacy Services Team.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

Thepost holder is member of the pharmacy operational team and will beresponsible for carrying out any duties commensurate with the grade ofpost. The role includes provision oftransfer of medicines from the pharmacy department to wards, theatres andother departments within the Trust, assisting with reception duties andsupporting the dispensaries with other routine tasks. The role requires flexibility in approachto the duties required as these may alter throughout the course of a workday/week, however the post holder will have one primary role that they willorientate towards on a daily basis.High standards of quality will be expected to be delivered in linewith MMPS/LTHT practices and policies.

Thepost holder will be expected to have basic knowledge of a number ofadministrative and operational functions and utilise LTHT IT systems in orderto complete their job role. The natureof the role requires the use of responding to some tasks via a definedcommunication system.

JOBDIMENSIONS

Adheringto standards and practices in Trust Policy and Pharmacy practices/proceduralmanuals alongside national initiatives, to ensure that medicines aretransferred in a safe and secure manner.

Tobe a point of contact for patients and other visitors to the Trust andprovide a warm friendly welcome offering directions, support andassistance.

Teammembers will be expected to operate as part of the Pharmacy team covering anyTrust managed service.

KNOWLEDGE,SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

i) ESSENTIAL

Topossess a relevant qualification or experience in one or more of thefollowing:-

Knowledge of Health & Safety,Moving & Handling, COSHH

Experience of working within acustomer focused environment Ability to work under own initiative and as partof a team

Customer Care Training

Abilityto work within set procedures and protocols

Conductoneself in a polite professional appearance/manner

Abilityto communicate both written and verbally using radio/telephone/ IT systems

Abilityto work to tight schedules

Goodorganisational skills

Capabilityto undertake strenuous physical tasks

Literateand numerate

Abilityto adapt to change

Prioritiseworkload with competing demands and tight deadlines, through effective timemanagement.

ii) DESIRABLE

Relevantoccupational training

NHSexperience

Abasic understanding of infection control

THELEEDS WAY VALUES

Ourvalues are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see thisas a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by ourstaff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centered : putting patientsat the heart of everything we do

Collaborative : working in teamsboth inside and outside of the Trust to improve our services.

Fair : treating all patients andcolleagues with dignity and respect

Accountable : taking responsibilityfor our actions and what we do

Empowered : letting our staff usetheir initiative and innovate to improve care.

Allour actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.

COREBEHAVIOURS AND SKILLS

Maintain effective communicationwith patients, colleagues in all working areas.

Demonstrate the desire to provide ahigh quality service.

Display a working knowledge andunderstanding of service users needs and requirements.

Ability to follow instructions andmake judgements at the time of service delivery.

Ability to record any informationrequired for pharmacy services.

To be flexible and adapt to changesin circumstances which impact on patient care.

To use tact & diplomacy whenoccasion arises.

To be able to organise workloaddepending upon priorities.

Be able to work as part of amulti-disciplinary team during a serious/ major incident.

Be a positive role model for thePharmacy Department and wider Trust colleagues.

To maintain high standards ofpersonal hygiene and appearance at all times whilst on duty

To support the training of serviceskills

COREKNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Ensurethat all tasks are carried out in compliance with relevant statutorylegislation and local policies and codes of practice by following agreed safeworking procedures, and reporting incidents using the Trust IncidentReporting system.

PRINCIPALDUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

The safe and efficienttransportation of medicines to wards and departments across the Trustensuring compliance with Trust Medicines Management policies. All medicinesincluding controlled drugs have a requirement to be signed out of pharmacyand a signature of recipt at ward/dept level

To remove recyclable medicineswaste from wards and departments and deliver securely back to pharmacy

To clean areas/equipment in linewith infection prevention and control practices/policy, portering duties musttake priority.

The removal of refuse and waste todesignated areas in line with Trust Infection Prevention and ControlPolicy/Waste Policy

The movement of medicines, fluids,dietry products and/or goods as determined by the department across the Trustsites, including associated equipment ie assisting in moving of officefurniture using allocated equipment.

Responsible for the safety andsecurity of any goods/equipment used with the specific role.

To provide appropriate response toany alarm upon activation i.e. fire alarms, including directions forresponding teams.

To organise and sort goods/items inan effectively manner for distribution across the Trust sites according toschedules.

Ensure an adequate supply ofitems/equipment necessary for the role are maintained.

Receipt of incomingdeliveries/goods/products ensuring that all goods inwards are checked againstdelivery notes and official orders. Ensuring that items meet quality andquantity specified and any good specific requirements.

Operation and minor maintenance ofall equipment/manual handling aids necessary for the role to be used incompliance with standard operating procedures

Ensuring all communications areresponded to in an efficient/timely manner.

To follow all local methodstatements & risk assessments to ensure that the role is undertaken in asafe, secure manner.

Act on feedback given from anyquality assurance system

Communication with allied healthprofessionals/trust staff members to ensure that the patients health andwellbeing is being maintained in helping to deliver excellent clinicaloutcomes.

To report anyfaults/issues/complaints/Health & Safety concerns regarding serviceprovision or equipment immediately to the supervisor or other appropriatesenior Trust staff member.

To complete and record rolespecific data/information either electronically or in written format that isrequired complying with operational procedures or local/Trust/National policyand audit recommendations/controls.

To provide a warm professionalwelcome and supportive communication to patients and visitors to the Trust,providing an efficient and courteous service.

Use and maintain any role specificdatabases/hardware/software, in accordance with departmental guidelines.

Ensure that all duties are carriedout in line with quality control procedures using standard facilitiesdocumentation.

To ensure that the correct uniformand PPE is worn at all times whilst on duty.

To undertake the duties of any ofthe specific job role ensuring that all the procedures, correct practices areadhered to.

To support the training of teammembers in the delivery of on the job service skills.

The job may require other duties tobe carried out as may reasonably be requested by line management commensuratewith the grade of the post.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working within a patient focused environment
• Experience of working in a physically demanding role which includes lots of walking

Additional Requirements

• Physically able to walk long distances on a daily basis

Qualifications

• Formal Qualifications - GCSE's or equivalent
• Literate and Numerate

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.