Pharmacy Based Assistant

2 weeks ago


Banbury, United Kingdom Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Hello

My name is Abi Ford, I am the dispensary Manager at the Horton Hospital Pharmacy.

I am privileged to lead our very hardworking, friendly, and committed Dispensary team in providing a dispensary service, supplying inpatient, outpatient, and discharge medication to Patients of the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated Pharmacy assistant with a positive outlook to support our team in ensuring that our patients receive the best service possible. The successful applicant will have previous hospital or community pharmacy experience and hold their NVQ level 2 in Pharmacy services or equivalent.

Main duties of the job

The Pharmacy assistant role is varied, where you will be required to assist in the smooth running of an assigned area under direction of our Senior technician. You will support the training of pharmacy apprentices, trainee technicians and pharmacists working alongside you.

You will support both dispensary and stores functions on the Horton Hospital site, labelling and dispensing discharge prescriptions, in-patient medication, and controlled drug requests, providing a ward and fluid top up service to clinical areas, receipt deliveries and be involved in stock management procedures including expiry date checking and processing drugs returned from inside the hospital.

The successful applicant will also answer the phone to our service users, and coverreception, requiring excellent customer service and communication skills.

Please contact Abigail Ford or Lisa Broom if you would like to find out more details

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.

This is a part-time position, 30 hours per week Mon-Friday, with working hours between 9:00-17:15, flexible working options would also be considered. You will also be required to participate in weekend working on a 1:6 rota basis, bank holiday, early and late duty rotas as per rota.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the description above and to the job description.

This will be a combined role with both dispensary and rotational ward responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualities

Essential

NVQ2 in pharmaceutical sciences Experienced dispenser Experience of stock management Able to work as part of a team and independently Proven time management skills Able to use own initiative appropriately Good verbal communication skills Willing to travel between sites Enthusiastic and responsible attitude Ability to work well under pressure Adaptable to change Respectful towards colleagues and patients

Desirable

Previous NHS experience Experience of using the local pharmacy computer system Experience of hospital pharmacy Well organised A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs Experience of a changing work environment
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