Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-1799
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £31,944 - £34,937 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/01/2025
Employer heading
Team Leader Pharmacy Assistant
Band 4
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has an electronic prescribing and administration system, upgraded robots on all our main pharmacy sites. Here at St Mary’s, we have an exciting opportunity a team leader post for our pharmacy assistants to support flow in our dispensary and stores.
We are currently recruiting for a highly motivated Team leader Pharmacy Assistant for our Dispensary and stores team on the St Mary site.
Our pharmacy assistants are the foundation of our service enabling the release of technicians for other duties. The post holders will be required to have or undertake training in according with the General Pharmaceutical Council requirements. This role builds on that experience with more responsibility for the workload management, allowing greater prioritisation.
You will work closely with the senior technicians for dispensary and stores to ensure daily tasks are completed in a timely manner. In addition you will supervise/ support pharmacy assistants when necessary.
This is a great opportunity for pharmacy assistants looking for a new challenge.
Main duties of the job
- To assist in the provision of a high quality, flexible and responsive dispensing service to patients of the Trust, associated hospitals including the dispensing of prescriptions and supply of stock.
- To co-ordinate the dispensing of prescriptions in the appropriate time frame i.e. message pool prescriptions, OPAT, clinical trials and posted/couriered medication.
- To assist with the training of new staff with the various applications used in the dispensary i.e. Prescription tracker and CMM (Pharmacy labelling and stock maintenance computer system
- To assist with the auditing of dispensary and distribution services.
- To co-ordinate the stock maintenance of sundries and personal protective equipment for the dispensary and offices
- To assist with the receipt of medication into the dispensary or store, including receipt on the pharmacy computer system (ODELIV)
- To co-ordinate, stock takes and adjust stock levels where a discrepancy is noted and assist in investigation of discrepancies, up to a limit of £500.
- To assist in the provision of a high quality 'topping up' and 'self-ordering' distribution service of pharmaceutical supplies to wards, clinics and associated areas.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy Assistant with GPhC
- Good Secondary Education
Desirable criteria
- Use of CMM computer system
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a customer orientated environment.
- Experience of working with computers.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of dealing with customers
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Good ability to organise and prioritise work
- Good interpersonal skills
- Able to work both alone and in a team
- Able to recognise the limits of own competence and refer or seek advice from others.
- Ability to enter data accurately
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jasmine Patel
- Job title
- Senior Lead Pharmacy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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