Pharmacy Support Worker Higher Level-pharmacy - Glasgow, United Kingdom - NHS Scotland

NHS Scotland
NHS Scotland
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Glasgow, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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The shift pattern for this post is Monday to Friday, 9-5, and participation in weekend and public holiday working and extended hours service.


The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is one of the largest acute hospitals in the UK and is home to major specialist services such as renal medicine, transplantation and vascular surgery, with state-of-the-art Critical Care, Theatre and Diagnostic Services.

The Royal Hospital for Children is adjoined to the adult hospital and has 244 paediatric beds with a further 12 neonatal beds in the maternity unit.

This hospital provides a large number of specialist services to the West of Scotland and the wider population of Scotland in addition to a full range of secondary care services including cardiology and cardiac surgery, renal and bone marrow transplantation.

For a number of these services, the children's hospital is recognised as the sole provider in Scotland.


We are looking for a highly motivated and proactive individual to join our friendly and supportive pharmacy team in the delivery of clinical pharmacy services to a variety of clinical areas within the hospital.

You will ensure the safe and effective supply of medicines to patients, co-ordinate and manage ward top-up services and be responsible for recycling & redistributing non-stock medicines that have been ordered for patients, helping to ensure that missed doses are avoided.

You will also facilitate the transfer of patients own medicines to downstream wards to help reduce duplicate ordering, reduce drug expenditure and potential subsequent waste.

You will dispense medicines for patients being discharged from hospital and support nursing staff with good housekeeping of medicines.


You will be an integral member of the pharmacy team and work closely with the wider multidisciplinary team including nurses, medical staff, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

You will also be responsible for the direct line management of one or more pharmacy support workers.

Essential Criteria

  • A proficient level of general education at National 5/Standard Grade level or above is essential.
  • Experience in using stock control systems is desirable.
  • Previous experience in healthcare/ pharmacy or customer facing role is desirable.
Please detail that you meet the educational & experience requirements of the job in order to be shortlisted.
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