Senior Pharmacy Assistant

3 weeks ago

Harefield, United Kingdom Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for an enthusiastic and hardworking individual to join Harefield Hospital Pharmacy team. You will provide a professional, efficient and customer focused dispensing and supply service.
- Rotating between dispensary and distribution areas, as required for the need of the service,
- To undertake accurate dispensing of prescriptions for inpatients and outpatients,
- To ensure prescriptions are printed and recorded into the digital prescription tracker,
- To assist in stock management including medications that have been used out of hours,
- Working together with patient services team to ensure that non-medicinal stock is replenished in a timely manner,
- Helping to reduce patient wait times and help improve the patient’s hospital experience,
- To respond to telephone and face to face enquiries of a routine nature from patients, their representatives, members of the public and a wide range of staff groups and referring queries to the relevant member of the pharmacy team when necessary,
- To assist distribution in their daily tasks. This may include, but not limited to, ward top ups, picking stock lists, Omnicell top up and maintenance, BOC gases and Robot maintenance.

This post provides dispensing and administration support to the dispensary at Harefield Hospital. In addition there may be times on rotation where the post holder is required to assist in Pharmacy stores and distribution, including at weekends

To participate in inpatient and outpatient dispensing, following departmental procedures

To assist with filing and archiving prescriptions following agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs)

To assist in pharmacy portering assistant duties when required

To interact with other staff and patients both in person and over the telephone and the need to work quickly and accurately under pressure

To participate in ward and department topping up and ensuring appropriate stock rotation

To ensure that infection prevention and control is an integral part of service delivery

Harefield Pharmacy department is a friendly welcoming team, who support their staff.

We work closely with our counterparts at Royal Brompton Hospital Pharmacy, to ensure our patients get the best possible treatment for their lung and heart conditions.

**Our core values are**:

- We care
- We respect
- We are inclusive
- To work effectively as a member of the Pharmacy team
- To communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals, patients and members of the public
- To carry out reception duties including the answering of the telephone and receiving prescriptions from staff and patients in a courteous manner, referring to Pharmacy Technicians or Pharmacists when appropriate
- To print prescriptions from MedChart, our electronic prescribing system, and input prescription data on the prescription tracking system
- To undertake accurate dispensing of prescriptions for inpatients and outpatients, in accordance with current Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Clinical Group Dispensing procedures. This will include Controlled Drugs and Clinical Trials with appropriate training
- To assist the Patient Services Manager and Senior Pharmacy Technicians Patient Services to maintain efficient stock control
- To participate in Bank Holiday and weekend working on a rotational basis
- To assist with the distribution of stock to the wards and departments.
- To be responsible for topping up Pharmacy stock on assigned wards and ensuring the ward stock is correctly stored and stock rotated liaising with ward pharmacists, Pharmacy and ward staff
- To participate in the daily stock checks
- To help investigate fridge deviations using the CheckIt fridge monitoring system
- To take part in the training of Pharmacy and hospital staff as required

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