Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
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Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Duties will be different depending on the area in which you are working, and full training will be provided, your role will be varied and challenging but ultimately rewarding To meet these challenges, you will need to have a positive outlook, be resilient, and demonstrate excellent communication skills.

Medicines form an important part of treatment for the vast majority of patients.

It is vital that all members of our pharmacy team demonstrate that they are capable of, and committed to, delivering high quality accurate and timely care.


Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff.

Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.


We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

  • Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
  • Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
  • Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Our Pharmacy department employs over 130 staff delivering high quality clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services. Due to service expansion we are looking for enthusiastic, flexible and committed pharmacy assistants to join our friendly team.

Posts available are full time and part time.

You will be required to participate in early/late, weekend and bank holiday rotas, and be willing to work across all sites of our Trust.


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Goods receipt from suppliers:
unpacking, checking against documentation; receipt onto pharmacy IT stock management system

  • Storing goods appropriately including cold chain and restricted items.
  • Rotate stock to minimise waste
  • Ensure work area is kept clean, tidy and de-cluttered
  • Process stock returns and manage waste according to the trust policy
  • Issue stock to wards and departments
  • Assist in the packaging and delivery of goods to ward and departments.
  • To answer the telephones and to deal with clients, nurses and other hospital staff in a helpful, efficient and courteous manner.
  • Maintain relevant records of work undertaken including computer records.
  • Co-operate with pharmaceutical staff in all parts of the Trust, to the benefit of the service as a whole
  • Receive, record and assist with prioritisation of prescriptions into the dispensary.
  • Record prescriptions onto the Prescription tracking System (PTS)
  • File/retrieve prescriptions and records as required.
  • Assemble emergency boxes and maintain appropriate records.
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