Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Aseptic Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (1 in 4 weekends and bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 190-7980-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- RHH
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum/ pro rata for Part time
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/08/2024
Employer heading
Principal Stock Management Support Worker Aseptic Services
NHS AfC: Band 4
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Would you like the opportunity to work as a part of a progressive, patient focused pharmacy aseptic service?
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated and positive individual to join our team. The team at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust comprises of approximately 500 pharmacy staff working across five sites and is one of the biggest pharmacy departments in the country.
Our inclusive and diverse pharmacy department has a strong clinical presence in all areas. We are innovative and forward-thinking and have invested in a host of technical improvements, including robotics and a state of the art, multi-million-pound technical services unit.
NHS organisations recognise the benefits of having a diverse workforce. As a trust and department, we are working to promote and improve inclusion and representation from under-represented groups including global majority ethnicities, LGBTQ+ identities, and colleagues with disabilities. We would welcome applicants who are members of these groups and other underrepresented groups to apply.
The trust will give you time to use your skills and help you develop a fulfilling career as well as a commitment to support flexible working and can support such things as, part time hours, condensed hours, or job share. These options are not exhaustive, and we would encourage candidates to state any forms of flexible working they would like to explore in their application.
Main duties of the job
To participate in the provision and maintenance of a comprehensive pharmaceutical service as part of the flexible working team in line with the current policies and procedures for Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Being responsible for stock maintenance and control including ordering and sourcing alternatives for out of stocks.
To be responsible for the day-to-day supervision of Aseptic -based Pharmacy Support Workers. Create and implement rotas or similar for allocation of staffing resource.
Assist the management team with managing attendance procedures including welcome back to work meetings and conduct selected annual staff appraisals, delivering feedback, and setting development objectives.
Upholding the Trust PROUD standards. Creating and demonstrating a positive and constructive environment within the Department.
Working for our organisation
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. It is an energetic and vibrant organisation that places patients and staff at the heart of everything they do. We provide a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, spinal cord injuries, renal and cardiothoracic services.
As a teaching hospital, we have a great commitment to education, training, and development of staff, including undergraduates from many professions.
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
The NHS offers a wide range of benefits including pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance and career, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Grade C or above in English and Mathematics or equivalent.
- BTEC or NVQ 3 or willing to work towards in either Pharmacy Services or Warehousing and Storage, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Evidence of short courses /qualifications or equivalent demonstrable experience in supervision of staff including undertaking appraisals / performance reviews / sickness absence reviews.
- Willingness to undertake additional training – such as NVQ /supervisory and management courses.
- Certificate in Good Distribution Practice (GDP)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Good Working knowledge of Health and Safety and COSHH
- Work to high standards of accuracy and reliability demonstrable from previous experience
- Excellent customer service skills demonstrable from previous experience
- Experience of using pharmacy-based computer systems
- Ability to tolerate interruptions and to deal with complaints.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to cope with occasional exposure to unpleasant working conditions
- Ability to work in an isolator for prolonged times. Standing for long periods
- Microsoft Office Packages – evidence of short courses or relevant experience.
- Able to prioritise tasks
- Ability to concentrate for long periods and work under pressure
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Reliable, trustworthy, and punctual
- Evidence that you can work independently using own initiative
- Ability to communicate effectively demonstrable from previous experience.
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
- Nazia Ahmed
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2711991
- Additional information
Helen .M. Oakes
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