Senior Pharmacy Assistant

2 weeks ago


Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Would you like to join our pharmacy team based at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust?

We have developed a new role to work with our clinical teams on our Emergency Floor, helping to organise medication supplies to patients in the new Royal Liverpool Hospital.

Working with the technical team you will be involved in the supply and distribution of medication to the Emergency Floor and training and developing various staff in pharmacy services.

You will be required to have a good understanding of hospital pharmacy and play a key role in ensuring supply of stocks to the different areas of the Emergency Floor. Also, patients have their medicines available during their stay and on discharge.

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual who wants to develop existing skills, you must be organised, flexible, have excellent communication skills and have a track record of paying close attention to detail.

You must be a team player who can work on your own initiative and who has a positive attitude towards providing a high-quality service and working to deadlines.

In the role as a Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Medicines Management you will work on the Emergency Floor, within the pharmacy department and on wards alongside nursing staff and the pharmacy teams.

Using your excellent communication skills, you will deal with queries regarding medicines supply and liaise with Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacists and dispensary or stores when required.

Maintaining medicines supplies will require analysis of reports to ensure stocks and named patient supplies are identified.

As a senior pharmacy assistant, you will supervise work of pharmacy assistants ensuring work is prioritised appropriately and play a key role in training and development of staff to maintain a quality and standards of work.

You will be expected to participate in evening, weekend and Bank Holiday working in keeping with the Pharmacy Directorate arrangements and the needs of the Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Key Responsibilities

1. Dispense and issue medicines from the Pharmacy Department including extemporaneously prepared products, controlled drugs, unlicensed medicines and clinical trials, in accordance with the policies, procedures and safe systems of work, which prevail in the department at the time.
2. Order and supply pharmaceuticals as part of the ward stock top-up service.
3. Using judgements within boundaries of own remit and training, interpret reports accurately to identify the correct supply of medicines and quantities.
4. Provide an effective medicine supply service to wards/departments and patients.
5. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure that patients have access to the correct medicines at the right time and that they are involved in decision making.
6. Receive medicines into the Pharmacy Department and ensure that documentation and computer entry is carried out in a timely and accurate manner.
7. Ensure that all pharmaceutical preparations are stored appropriately.
8. Ensure patients own medicines are brought into hospital through direct discussion with patient/relatives/carers.
9. Providing information to patients on their medicines supplies within remit.
10. Ensuring patients have adequate supply of medicines and reordering as necessary.
11. Liaising with discharge facilitators and multidisciplinary teams to identify patients requiring medicines for discharge.
12. Preparing medicines for discharge and dispensing items where applicable.
13. Acting as a point of contact for basic pharmacy related queries from other staff including nurses and multidisciplinary teams.
14. Interpret pharmacy portal reports and prepare daily handover for pharmacy ward teams.
15. Review antibiotic reports and order stocks as required through the pharmacy portal system.
16. Review controlled drugs report and identify order requirements and liaise with nursing staff to ensure they are ordered.
17. Review percentage report, check for transferred medicines, delete duplicate orders and reorder previously supplied medicines if required through th


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