Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer (ATO) -Rotational
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen, and we are currently seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Assistant Technical Officer to join and support our busy team in the Pharmacy Department at the Whittington Hospital. You will support the provision of pharmacy services across the Trust, and provide a professional, efficient and customer focused service following agreed departmental policies and procedures. The post is rotational so you will rotate in Dispensary, Distribution and Pharmacy Stores areas.
We are looking for a candidate who has good customer service and interpersonal skills, communicates well, and demonstrates the ability to prioritise and organise work to meet deadlines. There may be a requirement for the successful candidate to lift heavy goods.
The candidate ideally should have previous pharmacy experience and hold an NVQ Level 2 Certificate in Pharmacy Services or equivalent. but if not, you will undertake the BTEC Level 2 Certificate in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Support Staff through the Apprenticeship framework.
You must have GCSEs in both Maths and English at Grade C (4) or above, or equivalent.
Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills and career progression?
Why not try a interesting role in hospital pharmacy?
This could be your first step into a rewarding, challenging, progressive and lifelong career in hospital pharmacy.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will rotating in the dispensary, assisting the Pharmacy Technicians, Senior Pharmacy Assistants dispensing medications to wards and other areas. They will be also working with the distribution team carrying out ward top-ups, assembling medications to be delivered to wards and clinics and also they will be rotating into the pharmacy stores area receiving goods into the pharmacy, ensuring stock rotation at all times and also receiving deliveries using the Pharmacy computer system
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Details
Date posted
15 September 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£27,515 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
220-WHT-1483
Job locations
The Whittington Health NHS Trust,
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
Employer details
Employer name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
The Whittington Health NHS Trust,
Magdala Avenue
London
N19 5NF
Employer's website
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Employer contact details
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