Pharmacy Assistant

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team of pharmacy assistants in our main pharmacy stores.
You will be part of a busy team who deliver a high standard of service to the wards which includes stock and IV fluid replenishment to ensure that there is sufficient stock available to maintain patient care.
You will be part of our team to ensure that all external deliveries are received correctly and stored appropriately within our modern stores area including our robot.

You will help deliver medication to wards and departments, check and request stock requirements and update stock lists.
Some computer experience would be an advantage however you will be
trained to use our Pharmacy computer system and automated stock cabinets.
The role does involve heavy lifting due to large orders being delivered to the Pharmacy stores and when delivering to the wards and departments.
You should enjoy working in a team but must also be capable of working on your own at times. You must also be accurate, numerate, neat and organised with good communication skills.
Training will be provided to achieve NVQ level 2 in pharmacy services

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

We are passionate in supporting our staff to develop and have great opportunities for career progression. We take equality and diversity seriously and seek to empower all diverse groups within our trust. We seek to develop a culture where diversity in all its forms is celebrated. We are committed to ensuring that women are empowered to work at all levels of management and that working patterns are as flexible as possible giving all members of staff opportunity to flourish in using their skills for our patients. We work across our trust to enable those who consider themselves to have a disability both visible and invisible to have access to all they need to thrive in their work environment. We work with Stonewall to embed an inclusive and accepting culture for all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender staff. We have 78 nationalities working in our trust and we are proud of this. We are active in embracing the ethnic and cultural diversity in our trust. We work to empower people with any protected characteristic to have opportunities to work in an environment that helps them to contribute to the best of their ability, recognising and valuing the unique contributions each of us brings for best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to supporting the delivery of the Equality Act with zero tolerance for any discrimination, harassment or victimisation of applicants and staff with these protected characteristics

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