Pharmacy Homecare Purchasing Support Officer - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Description
Band 3Main area
- Medicines Homecare
Grade
- Band 3
Contract
- Secondment: 12 months (Fixed term available)
Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
Job ref
Site
- Trust Wide
Town
- Nottingham
Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
Salary period
- Yearly
Closing
- 30/11/2023 23:59
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is currently has an exciting opportunity of a secondment/temporary contract for a Pharmacy Homecare Purchasing Support Officer to work within our Medicines Homecare team.
You will work closely alongside a team of experienced technical, professional and homecare administration, staff to maintain and develop a high standard of Medicines Homecare to patients with often long term and complex conditions who receive their medication at home.
You need to be highly competent in purchasing or financial processing tasks, with a meticulous eye for detail, and able to turn round large volumes of work accurately to tight deadlines.
Main duties of the job
The post holder's primary focus will be to support the financial and business
Medicines homecare can be described as the dispensing and delivery of ongoing medicine supplies by a THIRD party homecare provider.
Working for our organisation
The Pharmacy homecare team sits within the wider Pharmacy Medicines Finance Team. We are a friendly, hard-working team who are an important part of the hospital Pharmacy department. This post is ideal if you are keen to develop your pharmacy career in a varied challenging environment.
We are dedicated to helping you to develop your talent, and training and development opportunities tailored to you will be provided in this role.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has a national and international reputation for many of its specialist services and expertise including stroke, renal, neurosciences, cancer services and trauma.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
To be part of the Pharmacy Medicines Finance team in providing financial,
performance and business management services to the Department.
Develop and maintain appropriate systems and processes for recording and monitoring homecare expenditure across all campuses, working with other Homecare Officers, Finance and Directorate staff and the Chief Technician Medicines Homecare.
Co-ordinate processing of all drug homecare treatments across NUH, maintaining a database of patient details, hospital numbers, drugs and treatments.
Reconcile patient details on the homecare database to hospital numbers on invoices, and notify the homecare company if information is incorrect to enable them to correct their records.
Accurately record the relevant invoice details on delivery notes, and prescriptions where supplied, checking information and signature, and check that goods charged for have been delivered, prior to separating the documents for processing and faxing to homecare companies.
Keep a record of prescription numbers against patient details, update database with patient names and hospital numbers, adding new patients when necessary.
Investigate discrepancies with relevant pharmacists, technicians and homecare companies to resolve complex queries and obtain credits where charges are incorrect.
Process invoices on the Pharmacy computer system, checking prices and contract details, ensuring compliance with the Trust's Better Payments policy.
Where discrepancies are found, refer these to the Chief Technician Medicines Homecare and then liaise with relevant homecare companies to resolve.
Check invoices against the invoice summary sheet on the Pharmacy computer system and copy prescriptions to ensure correct details have been entered.
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