Pharmacy Assistant

6 days ago


Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Pharmacy Assistant to join our team at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. As a Pharmacy Assistant, you will play a vital role in supporting our pharmacy technicians and pharmacists in the provision of high-quality pharmacy services.

Key Responsibilities
  • Assist in the dispensing of medicines to patients, under the supervision of a qualified pharmacy technician or pharmacist.
  • Support the work in the provision of an extended hour's service, including evening working, Saturdays, and Sundays.
  • Carry out routine supply of medicines, including inpatient dispensing, controlled drugs dispensing, and recycling and returning medicines no longer needed.
  • Receive prescriptions, label, and dispense routine items for inpatients and outpatients, seeking advice from senior staff when necessary.
  • Operate at all times within the local standard operating procedures relevant to the area of work.
  • Work on reception in the provision of hatch and associated duties, receiving work from wards and departments through the pharmacy reception.
  • Carry out filing, photocopying, and scanning of paperwork within the department when required.
  • Fill up bottles, bags, tops, and sundry items, ensuring availability of items at all times.
  • Answer the telephone, handling routine enquiries and referring all non-routine to the specified personnel.
  • Store stock in the correct shelf locations, ensuring appropriate stock rotation measures are in place.
  • Check expiry dates and undertake stock rotation of stock held within individual areas of responsibility.
  • Recycle, return, and destroy any unwanted medicines from wards and departments, following standard operating procedure and under the supervision of a technician.
  • Dispense and record appropriate details according to written protocols for unlicensed and named patient medicines within pharmacy.
  • Dispense controlled drugs to be held as stock on wards and for the completion of TTO medicines, completing the necessary legal documentation.
  • Study towards an NVQ level 2 qualification if not already held.
  • Participate in any education and training programmes.
  • Assist in ensuring that a high-quality pharmacy service is maintained.
  • Undertake the in-house ATO training programme, passing competencies proving ability within each area of the dispensary.
  • Demonstrate on request, appropriate tasks to unqualified and support staff.
  • Participate in education and training programmes when appropriate and ensure that accurate records are kept of Continuous Professional Development.
  • Participate in the provision of extended hours of service, including evening working, Saturdays, and Sundays, and bank holidays, according to formal rota arrangements.
  • Report any suspected or observed defects in medicines, medicinal products, and equipment to a senior pharmacist on duty.
  • Be familiar with, and maintain, safe standards of work and adequate records of all processes.
  • Have due regard for, and to conform at all times with, those aspects of the General Pharmaceutical Council's Code of Professional Ethics that apply to technical and support staff.
  • Have due regard for, and to conform at all times with, directives and circulars associated with the provision of pharmaceutical services, including the Medicines Act, the Duthie Report, relevant Controls Assurance requirements, and associated Trust policies and procedures.
  • Have due regard for all statutory guidance applicable to the pharmacy, including Health and Safety at Work, Manual Handling, and the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH).
  • Maintain at all times the rules relating to patient confidentiality.
  • Assist in ensuring a clean and tidy department.

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