Pharmacy Procurement

**Working hours**: 37.5 hours per week

**Who Our Opportunity is for**: We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Assistant Technical Officer to join our pharmacy stores and medicines procurement teams.

You need to be able to effectively manage your time to prioritise work and meet deadlines and have excellent communication skills. Working across pharmacy stores, procurement office and on wards you will need to be flexible and be able to work weekends and bank holidays.

To be responsible for issuing, distribution and stock-control of Top Up Medicines for Wards and Departments across the Trust. To receive, unpack and check all orders received into the Pharmacy Stores from wholesalers and other companies; ensure they are stored correctly following the principles of Good Distribution Practice To participate in the Pharmacy stock-control programme investigating discrepancies, maintaining and rotating stock and ensuring waste is kept to a minimum.
To participate in the secure delivery of pharmacy stock to all clinical areas within the Trust.

To be responsible for accuracy checking of ward stock top up including the drug’s strength, formulation, pack size, expiry date and quantity, in line with departmental procedures, prior to delivery.

To be responsible for processing Purchase Orders and Requisitions for medicines and related products via the pharmacy stock control system using electronic ordering (or other electronic means of communication) with all compliant suppliers.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.

The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.

The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trusts Values and Behaviours which are the 6 Cs Communication, Competence, Courage, Care, Compassion and Commitment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

The Trust encourages and supports the uptake of approved Covid 19 vaccines as the means of providing the best line of defence against infection, for patients and our people.