Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer

4 days ago


Gateshead, United Kingdom Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join our caring team of pharmacy assistants, technicians and pharmacists, to help deliver pharmacy services to the Trust. Full and part-time posts are available / will be considered.

Successful applicants will be rotational between ward services, in-patient dispensary and the pharmacy store, to support the delivery of a high quality service to our patients and customers.

The Pharmacy department operates a 7 day service so all applicants must be prepared to work weekends, late nights and Bank Holiday on rotation, and to be flexible to support the requirements of the team.

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

As a group we employ around 4,200 staff and currently provide 600 hospital beds across Gateshead. Our primary focus is on providing excellent general health services to our local community complemented by key specialist areas including Gynaecology, maternity, palliative care and old age psychiatry.

Alongside a full range of local hospital services, we provide breast screening services for Gateshead, South Tyneside, Sunderland and parts of Durham and we are the North Eastern hub for the National Bowel Cancer and AAA Screening Programmes, covering a population of around seven million people.

**Key Duties**:

- Assist in the receipt of delivered pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical items; ensuring all items received are processed correctly. The accurate and timely completion of any supporting documentation along with receipt of goods on to JAC (Pharmacy Stock Management System) and systems to support FMD.
- Participate in the ordering, supply and replenishment of pharmaceutical items to wards, departments and clinic. This will be via either a top-up service, requisitions received into the department or Omnicell cabinet orders.
- Maintain good stock management, handling and rotation practices in all areas of pharmacy and ward areas. Assist with drug re-calls and alerts.
- Participate in the day to day maintenance and effective use of Robotic Dispensing Systems and Omnicell Cabinets, this will include addressing failures, restarts, re-stocking and counts.
- Re-stock the dispensary, as required, with all consumables / disposables used in the dispensing process.
- Manage and dispose pharmaceutical waste.
- Assist with reception duties such as; receipt of orders and prescriptions, use of PTS (Prescription tracking), preparing completed orders and prescriptions ready for collection by delivery staff.
- Use JAC to accurately dispense, a range of prescriptions and orders to include In-Patient discharge and Out-Patient prescriptions, temporary stock requisitions, controlled drugs orders, clinical trial and unlicensed medication, in accordance with agreed safe systems of work practice in safe and timely manner.
- Maintain all areas of work, keeping areas clean and tidy (not general domestic duties). Complete and record environmental checks such as fridge and room temperatures.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external customers including pharmacy staff, health care professionals and delivery personnel.
- Ensure that Local Record Management is followed; storing, filing and maintaining all associated paperwork.



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