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Trosolwg o'r swydd

Due to investment, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Salford community services pharmacy team as a Medicines Management Assistant, supporting medicines management in Care Homes. Working alongside our pharmacists and technicians, you will play a key role in reducing medicine waste, replenishing medicines, and supporting Care Home staff to safely handle medicines. This is an ideal opportunity to develop your knowledge and experience as part of our dynamic and diverse pharmacy team, whilst helping shape a new innovative community role. You’ll receive all the training needed, including completion of relevant qualifications where necessary. You will have regular time in the acute in-patient pharmacy department to support development and be part of the wider pharmacy team. You will be required to travel between locations and visit Care Homes, therefore require access to transport.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

• To order medicines as part of the pharmacy care homes team.
• To support the technicians and pharmacists with resident’s own drug checks to ensure timely access to medicines, reducing missed doses and waste.
• To support staff in storing medicines appropriately as per CQC requirements.
• Help gather audit data to demonstrate improvements.
• To dispense medication for inpatients, outpatients, and discharges as part of the in-patient pharmacy service

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.  

For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/