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Senior Assistant Technical Officer - Dispensary Band 3
Grade
Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
220-WHT-2352
Employer
Whittington Health NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Whittington Health NHS Trust - Pharmacy Department
Town
London
Salary
£27,948 - £29,468 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Senior Assistant Technical Officer (SATO) - Dispensary

Band 3

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen, and we are currently seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Assistant Technical Officer to join and support our busy team in the Pharmacy Department at the Whittington Hospital. 

The candidate must have good customer service and interpersonal skills, communicate well, and demonstrate the ability to prioritise and organise work to meet deadlines. 

The candidate should have previous pharmacy experience and hold an NVQ Level 2 Certificate in Pharmacy Services or equivalent qualification.

You must have GCSEs in both Maths and English at Grade C (4) or above, or equivalent.

Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills and career progression? This could be your first step into a rewarding, challenging, progressive and lifelong career in hospital pharmacy.

Main duties of the job

They will support the provision of pharmacy services across the Trust, and provide a professional, efficient and customer focused service following agreed departmental policies and procedures. The post holder will be based in the dispensary, assisting the Senior Pharmacy Technicians, rotational assistants, dispensing medications to wards and other areas. They will also be carrying out ward top-ups, dispensing controlled drugs using the electronic Omnicell cabinet. The post holder will also be responsible for training junior staff and liaising with all health care professionals regarding medicines. The post holder will be assisting the Senior Technician on the management of the daily activities in the dispensary ensuring the dispensary is running efficiently.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see detailed job descriptions attached. Some of the main duties include the following.

  • Assist the dispensary manager in oversight of dispensary services.
  • Supervise and allocate as appropriate, the workload of the rotational assistant technical officers, in dispensary.
  • To assist in the management of all aspects of the main dispensary.
  • The post holder should hold a Pharmacy Dispensing assistant qualification or equivalent.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Underpinning knowledge to standard required for NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services or other equivalent qualification
  • GCSEs in English and Maths, Grade A to C (4-9) or equivalents

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Accurate dispensing skills and ability to follow written procedures
  • Able to communicate effectively with all grades of staff throughout the trust (verbal and written)
  • Able to organise and prioritise workload, and to meet pre-determined deadlines.
  • Good clear and well spoken English
  • Effective customer service skills able to work to meet the needs of customers of the department and to meet the standards of the trust.
  • Ability to motivate self and others.
Desirable criteria
  • Able to train and assess all dispensary staff
  • Able to manage stock effectively to ensure the availability of formulary medicines whilst minimising wastage

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Pharmacy Computer/IT skills including Microsoft programs
  • Problem-Solving skills
  • Clear and literate writing skills
  • Numeracy skills

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Reliable
  • Self-motivated
  • Demonstrates initiative, motivation and enthusiasm for the post
  • Demonstrated ability to manage the handling of hazardous materials safely according to local standard operating procedure
  • Able to demonstrate ability to cope under pressure and multi-tasking correctly
  • Able to work independently and as a member of a team
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrated ability to manage load handling issues and ensure local manual handling procedures are followed

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident leaderInvestors in PeopleImproving working livesCare quality commission - GoodDisability confident committed

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sahedia Hussain
Job title
Dispensary and Distribution Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
020 7288 3704
Additional information

Please contact Sahedia Hussain for any further information or to arrange an informal visit.

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