Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Assistant

2 months ago


StokeonTrent, United Kingdom North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust Full time

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and conscientious person to join our developing pharmacy team, based in Stoke-on-Trent. We are looking to employ a motivated, efficient Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Assistant (part time, 15 hours/week) who has previous experience of working in healthcare and holds excellent typing and IT skills.

Ideal for a community-based dispenser looking to experience hospital pharmacy or a hospital based ATO wanting a new challenge.

You will be responsible for overseeing the day to day processes for communicating accurate patient’s discharge medicines information and medicine support requirements to external community pharmacies, via ‘PharmOutcomes’. This is a web-based system which helps community clinicians provide services more effectively, to enable you to support patients with their medicines post-discharge and prevent medicines related admissions. You will be under the supervision of the Clinical Pharmacy Team.

The hardworking individual will also be undertaking duties such as assembling medicines at ward level, topping up wards with pharmacy stock, supporting with in-patient, out-patient and discharge medicines supply.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is a leading provider of mental health, social care, learning disability and substance misuse services in the West Midlands.

We are a forward-thinking Trust and are extremely proud to have attained the highest possible rating of “Outstanding” from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), one of only two specialist Mental Health Trusts in England to be awarded this.

Our vision is ‘To be Outstanding in all we do and how we do it’ and the way we do inclusion is no exception. As a ‘Disability Confident Employer’, we very much believe that inclusion is something that you feel when you work at the Trust and we are continuously developing our culture of inclusion. Our teams pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience.

You willhold4 GCSEs or equivalent - must include Maths and English at grade C/Level 4 or above.

Hold an NVQ Level 2 in Pharmaceutical Services or be willing to work towards one.

You must have a willingness to learn and in return we’ll give you our full support and training in the department.



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