Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer

6 months ago


Whitehaven, United Kingdom North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer - Homecare Services, Band 2, up to 22.5 hours per week

The opportunity has arisen for a part-time Assistant Technical Officer within the Pharmacy Homecare services team, to support a variety of administrative and technical functions for the Pharmacy Homecare service.

Work primarily within the Pharmacy department, to support administrative and technical functions for the Pharmacy Homecare service under Trust procedures.

The Pharmacy Homecare team is a friendly, small, hard-working team who are an important part of the hospital Pharmacy department. This post is ideal if you are keen to work in a vital NHS role and have a keen interest in Pharmacy and patient care.

This involves scanning, filing, ordering stationery items, preparing items for posting, and the use of the Pharmacy computer system to assist with ordering, invoicing, goods receipt under supervision, in accordance with procedures, and the postholder will be responsible for passing any invoices with queries on to senior staff according to procedures.

To accept telephone messages for the Team to pass to senior staff.

Assist in office and departmental tasks within abilities as requested.

Liaise with the other members of the Homecare Team to ensure continuity of processes.

Accuracy is a critical skill for this role.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicyfor eligible vacancies?
- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

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**The changes mean that**:

- the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.

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**Standard Check**: £18 + Administration cost of £3.85 = £21.85. Deducted at £6.85 from 1st month salary and £5 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

**Enhanced Check**: £38 + administration cost of £3.90 = £41.90. Deducted at £11.90 from 1st month salary and £10 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.

A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.

27 day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

Excellent opportunities for development

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies

EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist



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