Senior Dispensing Assistant

2 hours ago


Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Dispensing Assistant to join our Pharmacy team at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust. As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in providing dispensing support to qualified staff, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of medicines to our patients.

Key Responsibilities

  • Dispensing for in-patients and out-patients by calculating appropriate dosage and quantities required against prescriptions/requisitions, following departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
  • Ensuring that all customers receive the appropriate medicine in the correct form and in a timely manner.
  • Ensuring that all medicines are labelled and packaged appropriately, and all relevant patient information and compliance aids/sundries are supplied.
  • Dispensing controlled drugs for ward stock and named patients, following all relevant Pharmacy procedures and legal requirements.
  • Performing a self-check on all dispensed items to ensure accuracy and quality prior to placing the item in the designated area for final checking.
  • Receiving in prescriptions from a wide range of outpatient clients and using listening and questioning skills to obtain appropriate information to enable effective service provision.
  • Operating the cash till and debit/credit card machine to take payment for prescriptions.
  • Ensuring that the declaration of payment/exemption on outpatient prescriptions has been correctly filled in and clearly endorsed with grounds for exemption if a fee is not paid.
  • Selling over the counter products under the supervision of a pharmacist.

About Us

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing over 12,000 staff. We provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics, and in patients' own homes.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff, offering a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals, we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata), and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.


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