Pharmacy Assistant - Prescot, United Kingdom - St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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Prescot, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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This post would be suitable for someone who is looking to start their career in Hospital Pharmacy.

We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible and well-motivated individuals to join our existing Pharmacy team.

Attention to detail is essential, as is an ability to work accurately in a fast-paced environment and with other members of the Pharmacy team.

Good communication skills and a willingness to learn is important. This post would be suitable for someone who is looking to continue their career in Hospital Pharmacy.

A good standard of education (to GCSE level) would be advantageous.

Interview date:

w/c 24th July 202- Stores duties will include working as part of the distribution team in Pharmacy stores and processing and assembling ward stock requests.

Dispensary duties will include greeting patients, receiving inpatient and outpatient prescriptions at our front desk, maintaining stocks of emergency boxes, processing returned medicines and other general housekeeping duties.

St Helens & Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside and one of the few in the country to achieve OUTSTANDING rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across the North West, North Wales, and Isle of Man.

We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of what we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Our latest achievements include:

Acute Trust of the Year HSJ Awards November 201
Trust rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 201
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Awarded National Preceptorship Accreditation for our Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme

In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas:

Standard of care
Best place to work
Care of patients being the Trust's priority
Staff engagement
Staff morale
Compassionate & inclusive
Providing safe environments for staff

Please see attached Wellbeing & Benefits booklet for more information on our benefits for staff. Accessible version available upon request.

KEY DUTIES

To participate in the ATO rota through areas of the stores dispensaries and wards.
To assist in the receipt of prescriptions.
To participate in pharmacy services to wards and clinics primarily to maintain and control medicines.
To assist in booking in and auditing prescriptions, using the latest software.
To prepare and assemble supplies of medicines for delivery to wards and departments.
To assist in the receipt, storage and issue of stock including the maintenance of manual and computerised records.
To assist in the provision of a ward topping up service, supplying stock medication to wards on a weekly basis.
To cooperate with the provision of necessary staffing within the pharmaceutical service and participate in staff rotation to other sites e.g. St Helens.
To assist in the preparation and assembly of resuscitation and anaphylaxis boxes.
To participate in stock control of medicines within the pharmacy department under the supervision of the dispensary manager or senior technician.
Regularly handle or process cash or cheques when dealing with outpatients prescriptions.
To comply with the legal and other requirements related to the purchase, supply, use, safe custody and destruction of drugs both within the Pharmacy and in all other areas of the Trust.
To comply with and ensure that all other pharmacy staff under his / her control comply with the Health and Safety at work act, COSHH Regulations, Display Screen Equipment Regulations, Data Protection Act and other appropriate legislation during daily activities.
To participate in the Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday rotas.
To participate in evening and oncall rotas in response to the changing needs of the service.