Pharmacy Support Worker-Technical Services

1 week ago


Stevenage, United Kingdom East and North Herts NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Pharmacy Support Worker Technical Services who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The post holder will have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills to work in our busy manufacturing unit within the pharmacy department at the Lister Hospital.

We have a state-of-the-art new unit that has undergone extensive refurbishment. This is an exciting time for you to join our team and work in a brand-new facility.

The Lister Pharmacy Aseptic team is a growing and progressive team that makes personalised medicines, mainly injectable chemotherapy doses, in clean room environments for our Trust's patients.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

You will be expected to follow strict standard operating procedures in the preparation of drug products.

Aseptic preparation of medicines and assembling and transferring drugs and consumables into the clean rooms.

Creating documentation using pharmacy software systems.

Conducting cleaning of aseptic rooms and associated equipment.

Supporting stock maintenance of drugs and consumables.

Applicants are required to be able to work methodically and have rigorous attention to detail. You must be willing to meet the strict personal requirements for clean room working and be dexterous to undertake aseptic preparation, including the manipulation and use of needles and syringes.

In house training and accreditation will be provided to achieve the required level of competency; on-going validation of aseptic technique is a requirement of the post.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

o The Lister Hospital, Stevenageo New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden Cityo Hertford County, Hertfordo Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

Grade C (GCSE) in maths, science and English Basic numeracy and literacy skills Able to undertake certain units of NVQ Level 2 and complete in 1 year

Desirable

NVQ level 2

Previous Experience

Essential

Good team player Working with customers

Desirable

Experience of training others

Skills

Essential

Able to undertake simple word processing Maintains confidentiality Achieves objectives in timescale set Customer Service Skills Good verbal communication skills

Desirable

Able to work with minimal supervision Able to maintain electronic database/spread sheets Able to create spread sheets Able to plan out workload

Knowledge

Essential

Numerate and literate Able to perform simple calculations Able to input data accurately Able to use email system

Other Requirements

Essential

Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion Role model our Trust values every day

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