Pharmacy Assistant

Freeman Hospital

Carthage (MO)

On-site

USD 26,000 - 31,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Pharmacy Assistant to join the Royal Victoria Infirmary Pharmacy Team. This band 2 role involves supporting pharmacists, technicians and assistants, with training provided to develop competency.

You may work across the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospital to support seven-day services. We offer comprehensive onboarding, a friendly team, and the opportunity to contribute to high-quality patient care while gaining experience in a

Qualifications

Knowledge of Health and Safety and hygiene in the workplace.
GCSEs (or equivalent) or relevant experience.
Willingness to undertake NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services.

Responsibilities

Provide technical support to dispensary services including stock management.
Answer dispensary telephone and enter orders on the tracking system.
Deliver drug bags to wards across the hospital.
Support dispensary staff and maintain accuracy in a busy environment.

Skills

Oral and written communication

Basic computer skills

Organisational and accuracy skills

Customer care skills

Education

GCSEs or equivalent qualifications

NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services

Job description

Urgent treatment centres

Employer heading

Pharmacy Assistant

Band 2

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job Overview

We are looking to recruit a Pharmacy Assistant into our Royal Victoria Infirmary Pharmacy Team. Times may occur when there is a need to work across site at the Freeman Hospital, both dispensaries have the advantage of automated robotic dispensing to facilitate the dispensing of a wide range of prescriptions and orders to various specialties across the Trust.

As a key member of the Pharmacy Team you will work alongside Pharmacists, Technicians, Assistants and Students supporting the rapid discharge of our patients 7 days a week.

The successful candidate will also be expected to support our seven day service and participate in weekend working, weekday late duties and bank holidays on a rotational basis.

Interview Date: 10 September
37 hours 30 minutes/week

Main duties of the job

This is a great role to start your career as a Pharmacy Assistant, as you'll receive all the training and support you need to be your best. In our new recruit we are looking for an individual who is committed to delivering a high quality service to our patients and the trust, whose personal attributes include:

the ability to work accurately in a very busy environment
good communication skills
a professional manner
good time management
a flexible team approach
the ability to adapt to and engage in change

Previous experience in Pharmacy is not required, as you will be provided with competency based training and support to help you expand on your knowledge and experience.

You will also support the timely supply of controlled drugs and a range of other requests for in-patient medicines.

So, if you are ambitious, enthusiastic, reliable, and conscientious, then this is the opportunity for you.

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
Freeman Hospital
Newcastle Dental Hospital
Cramlington Manor Walks
Urgent treatment centres
Newcastle Fertility Centre
Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Provide technical support to dispensary services including carrying out routine procedures in the ordering, distribution and storage of pharmaceutical stock
Undertake reception duties at the staff hatch, answer the dispensary telephone and ensure orders/prescriptions are entered on the prescription tracking system
Provide appropriate support as required to dispensary staff
Checks off orders received into the dispensary in accordance with procedure
Replenish the Emergency Drug Cupboard
Replenish a variety of cardiac arrest boxes
Issues Controlled Drugs in response to a written order
Deliver drug bags to wards and departments throughout the hospital

Person specification

KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

Knowledge of Health and Safety and hygiene in the workplace

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of Hospital Pharmacy
Knowledge of drug names and differences in formulations / pack sizes

Skills

Essential criteria

Demonstrate good oral and written communication
Basic computer skills
Good organisational and accuracy skills
Good customer care skills

Experience

Desirable criteria

Grandparent clause notification to the GPhC
Experience of stock control and stock management

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Good basic education (e.g. GCSEs or equivalent qualifications) or previous relevant experience
Must commit to undertake an NVQ level 2 in Pharmacy Services if not already achieved

Desirable criteria

GCSE (Min. Grade C) or equivalent in Mathematics and English Language or previous relevant experience
NVQ 2 in pharmacy services

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e‑mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download