Pharmacy Receptionist

Permanent

£22,383 per annum pro rata

22.5 hours per week

**Hours of Work**:
Week 1
- Monday to Friday 9am-1.30pm = 22.5 hours per week

Week 2
- Monday to Friday 1pm to 5.30pm = 22.5 hours per week

You will also be required to participate in bank holidays on a rotational basis.

If you are successful in being invited to attend an interview, arranging a visit to the department prior to the interview is highly recommended

**Closing Date**: 26th November 2023

**Interview Date**: TBC

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

JoinTeamEliot

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated individual to fulfil a supporting role within the busy pharmacy team as a pharmacy receptionist.

This will involve receiving work into the pharmacy department from staff and patients, tracking in the work using the PTS system. Allocating work to the correct area as required. Use of the JAC pharmacy system to deal with queries and answering/ making calls to departments or staff to arrange collection of TTO's including Controlled Drugs and ward stocks.

Taking payment from patients for prescriptions and checking exemptions when required.

Here at George Eliot our vision to‘excel at patient care’takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

**Benefits**: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, on-site discounted gym, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

1. To receive prescriptions, TTO’s and ad-hoc requests.
2. To collect prescription charges, balance cash, bank weekly at finance Department and answer telephones and answer queries from patients and hospital staff when undertaking reception duties.
3. To file and maintain records of all documents relating to prescriptions.
4. To be jointly responsible for storage, issuing, maintenance of records and audit trail of controlled stationery (including FP10HNC) to authorised receipts so that prescriptions may be written for patients to obtain from community pharmacies when hospital pharmacy is closed.
5. Knowledge of Microsoft Office programs (e.g. Word) and Outlook.
6. To answer telephones, channel messages, sort and distribute departmental mail.

Please refer to job description and person specification for further details. If you feel that your skills, knowledge and behaviours match this description and our Trust Values, please do not hesitate to apply.