Medicines Management Assistant

5 months ago

Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

**Job overview**:
**This is a fixed-term post/secondment for 18 months.**

Due to investment, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Salford community services pharmacy team as a Medicines Management Assistant, supporting medicines management in Care Homes. Working alongside our pharmacists and technicians, you will play a key role in reducing medicine waste, replenishing medicines, and supporting Care Home staff to safely handle medicines. This is an ideal opportunity to develop your knowledge and experience as part of our dynamic and diverse pharmacy team, whilst helping shape a new innovative community role. You’ll receive all the training needed, including completion of relevant qualifications where necessary. You will have regular time in the acute in-patient pharmacy department to support development and be part of the wider pharmacy team. You will be required to travel between locations and visit Care Homes, therefore require access to transport.

**Main duties of the job**:

- To order medicines as part of the pharmacy care homes team.
- To support the technicians and pharmacists with resident’s own drug checks to ensure timely access to medicines, reducing missed doses and waste.
- To support staff in storing medicines appropriately as per CQC requirements.
- Help gather audit data to demonstrate improvements.
- To dispense medication for inpatients, outpatients, and discharges as part of the in-patient pharmacy service

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to **make a difference** and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - **care**, **appreciate** and **inspire** - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in Pharmacy Services or a minimum of 4 GCSEs at Grade C or above 2 of which must include Maths and English.

**Skillls and knowledge**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Good verbal and written communication, including by telephone.
- Good time management
- Able to work quickly and accurately under pressure.

**Desirable criteria**:

- Knowledge of Pharmacy services
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

**Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.**

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