Pharmacy Assistant

6 months ago


Bedford, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for an enthusiastic Pharmacy Assistant to join our friendly stores team. You will work as part of a team to deliver a high quality pharmacy service to wards and departments where patient experience and safety is at the heart of everything we do.

The Pharmacy Assistant role is varied role centred around medicines distribution. You will be involved in receiving and storing stock as per storage requirements. Preparing ward boxes and restocking ward/department medicines as required.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.

We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Please review all documents attached to this advert to ensure you familiarise yourself with all requirements of the job.

The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities.

To receive and check medicine deliveries, complete documentation (paper and electronic) and maintain copy files. To record all discrepancies and report them to stores manager / procurement team in a timely fashion.

To load the automated dispensing system (ADS)

To put away medicines not stored in the ADS and properly rotate all stock.

To monitor stock levels in the pharmacy store and alert the senior technician to any low or incorrect levels. To check for expired and damaged goods. To operate a rolling stock check

To be responsible for the destruction of drug waste in accordance with COSHH principles and Trust waste disposal procedures including completion of necessary paperwork.

To perform environmental monitoring of the stores area, e.g. temperature monitoring

To process bulk to-follows, feeds and IV requests



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