Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Respiratory Medicine

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in the UK seeks a candidate to join their Interstitial Lung Disease pharmacy team. The role includes supporting administrative tasks, managing databases, and liaising with patients and healthcare professionals. Ideal candidates should have experience in pharmacy-related administrative tasks and effective communication skills. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-quality patient care in a respected hospital environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in administrative tasks related to pharmacy operations.
• Ability to manage and maintain databases.
• Effective communication skills with healthcare professionals and patients.

Responsibilities

• Support the team in administrative tasks and database management.
• Liaise with patients, healthcare providers, and homecare services.
• Manage outpatient communication for respiratory patients.

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Interstitial lung disease (ILD) pharmacy team at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital and provide pharmacy support.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

Responsibilities

• This role involves supporting the team in administrative tasks, managing and maintaining databases used by the ILD pharmacy team, and liaising with ILD patients, healthcare professionals, and homecare providers to facilitate provision of homecare medication for ILD patients.
• The postholder will support the ILD pharmacy team in the coordination and production of homecare prescriptions, ensuring relevant databases are maintained, liaising with patients, healthcare professionals, and homecare providers as necessary to facilitate homecare for respiratory patients.
• The post holder will support the ILD pharmacy team in communicating with primary care to gather information regarding patients’ blood tests.
• The post-holder will support the ILD Pharmacy and nurse specialist (CNS) teams to manage outpatient communication, liaise with referring physicians and general practitioners, and deal with patient queries.

Contact

For further details or informal visits, contact: Shereen Boreland, ILD Lead Pharmacist, Email: [e-mail], Telephone: [phone].

Jessica Clements: [e-mail]