Pharmacy Dispensing Assistant

3 days ago

Portsmouth, United Kingdom Bank Partners Full time

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is the largest non-teaching hospital trust in England. With strong local ties and serving around 675,000 residents in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire, they pride themselves on providing comprehensive acute and specialist services.

The Trust has one main site, Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, and looks after six peripheral community sites for outpatient activity.

Here at Portsmouth Staff Bank, we support the Trust with temporary staff in all staff groups. We offer our workers an excellent service that allows them to work flexibly whilst enjoying several benefits including:

- Online timesheets
- Weekly pay
- Priority over agency workers
- Supportive on-site teams
- And many more

To make sure that our bank workers are fully supported we have a dedicated recruitment and compliance team. They work hard to ensure that our workers can start booking shifts as soon as possible. In addition, a helpful bookings desk and on-site team are there to assist them and answer any questions.

**Job Summary**:
To correctly label an dispense Pharmaceuticals against prescriptions and to participate in other duties that contributes to the smooth running of the dispensary and associated areas

To support the pharmacy and medicines services to patients and other professional healthcare teams.

To support ordering, receiving, maintaining and supplying stock medicines for Pharmacy areas and/or agreed wards.

Receive prescriptions and any other pharmaceutical work appropriate to the level of training, knowledge and experience, in order to participate in the safe and effective delivery of pharmacy services across the Trust.

Current areas of responsibility are as follows:

- 1. Dispensary, including clinical trials

2. Near Patient Services, Wards and Departments

3. Supervisor, Stores including Medical Gases

**Qualifications**
- Pharmacy services Assistant apprenticeship or equivalent to meet the requirements of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Evidence of numeracy and literacy at level 1
- Level 2 qualification/GCSE higher passor above including maths, English and a science, or equivalent qualifications, or work experience that demonstrates comparable ability in a similar field.**
Skills and Knowledge**

Essential
- Good oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
- Able to learn to advance own skills and knowledge.
- Computer skills
- Able to work flexibly and prioritise workload
- Able to distinguish accurately between similar products
- Able to use initiative whilst knowing when to refer
- Able to work safely and effectively under pressure and/or mínimal supervision.
- Safety and Security awareness
- Able to work alone and/or flexibly in a team.
- Responsible and Professional behaviour
Desirable
- Customer Care skills.
- Understanding of Stock control**
Experience**

Essential
- Experience ofteam work
- Experience of Pharmacy or another customer focussed, caring field
- Working with formal procedures
- Compiling complex orders
- Experience of stock control/handling
Desirable
- Recent experience of hospital pharmacy.
- Pharmacy Counter Sales Qualification
- Proactive attitude to ongoing training and assessment

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