Job summary
Pharmacy Messenger
32.5 hours per week (Please see shift patterns below)
Permanent
Salary: £23,615 pro rata
Closing Date: 2nd March 2025
Interview Date: 19th March 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
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**32.5 hours including at least 2 late nights per week and bank holiday working on rota basis.
Messengers work on a 2 week rota - alternating each week between mornings and afternoon (Please see below).
There will be occasions where additional shifts can be picked up via NHSP to support annual leave, sickness and service provisions including weekends on an ad-hoc basis
Core hours of work:
Week 1 -Monday to Friday: 9am - 4pm
Week 2 -Monday to Friday: 11am - 6pm
(Late nights after 6pm are accrued as TOIL)**
Main duties of the job
- To provide a delivery service for medicines (including Controlled Drugs, IV fluids) between the pharmacy and Wards/Departments of the Trust site
- Assist with the internal processing, movement and supply of pharmacy stocks.
- To help pharmacy assistants receive goods arriving at pharmacy especially in loading and unloading heavy goods and pallet.
Please note: This role requires lots of walking, moving and handling of heavy fluid boxes around the hospital site.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate employees who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To collect prescriptions from wards and deliver medication, including Controlled Drugs, according to pre-determined schedule and as required.
- To ensure all medicines are delivered at the end of the day.
- To collect pharmacy boxes from wards and departments, return same to pharmacy and prepare ready for other staff in accordance with departmental standards.
- To assist other staff with receipt of goods, and sign for them,(other than controlled drugs which must be presented to a pharmacist or registered technician to check and sign) and correctly locate them within stores, in accordance with departmental standards.
- To assemble bulk fluids from picking lists and distribute them to the designated locations (wards/departments) around the hospital.
- To assist other staff with re-distribution of stocks within pharmacy.
- To remove and dispose of departmental refuse as required, in accordance with Trust standards.
- To prepare products in a form suitable for distribution to wards and departments, in accordance with departmental procedures.
- To maintain the stores and ward stock distribution area in a clean and tidy condition, ensuring that gangways and fire escapes are not blocked so that there are no avoidable Health and Safety risks to anyone.
- To attend departmental meetings as and when required.
- To undertake such other reasonable duties as may be necessary to ensure the smooth running of the pharmacy service as determined by the senior staff.
- To dispose of packaging to an appropriate place as required by pharmacy and Trusts waste management policies.
- To co-operate with other members of pharmacy staff as necessary, to facilitate the smooth running of the department.
- To participate in rotational work schedules, including bank holiday working.
- Complete any training in a timely manner
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To collect prescriptions from wards and deliver medication, including Controlled Drugs, according to pre-determined schedule and as required.
- To ensure all medicines are delivered at the end of the day.
- To collect pharmacy boxes from wards and departments, return same to pharmacy and prepare ready for other staff in accordance with departmental standards.
- To assist other staff with receipt of goods, and sign for them,(other than controlled drugs which must be presented to a pharmacist or registered technician to check and sign) and correctly locate them within stores, in accordance with departmental standards.
- To assemble bulk fluids from picking lists and distribute them to the designated locations (wards/departments) around the hospital.
- To assist other staff with re-distribution of stocks within pharmacy.
- To remove and dispose of departmental refuse as required, in accordance with Trust standards.
- To prepare products in a form suitable for distribution to wards and departments, in accordance with departmental procedures.
- To maintain the stores and ward stock distribution area in a clean and tidy condition, ensuring that gangways and fire escapes are not blocked so that there are no avoidable Health and Safety risks to anyone.
- To attend departmental meetings as and when required.
- To undertake such other reasonable duties as may be necessary to ensure the smooth running of the pharmacy service as determined by the senior staff.
- To dispose of packaging to an appropriate place as required by pharmacy and Trusts waste management policies.
- To co-operate with other members of pharmacy staff as necessary, to facilitate the smooth running of the department.
- To participate in rotational work schedules, including bank holiday working.
- Complete any training in a timely manner
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- On the job experience in similar environment e.g. warehouse
- Experience of working as part of a team
Desirable
- Experience with the use of electric trucks
- Experience in working in pharmacy
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential
- To have Basic Math and English skills e.g. Functional skills Level 2
Desirable
- Willing to undertake or have a Dispensary Stock management Course and any other relevant modules from the NVQ 2 Pharmacy Services course
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexible
- Tidy and clean appearance
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- To have Basic Math and English skills e.g. Functional skills Level 2
- Able to carry out routine tasks under Standard Operating Procedure
- Able to take instructions from more senior members of staff
- Able to read and comprehend written instructions
- Able to communicate effectively
- Recognises own limitations
- Able to work on own initiative
- Able to work as part of a team
Other
Essential
- Capable of occasional moderate lifting <20kg Ability to attend regularly Able to participate in weekend/bank holiday work Physically fit
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective open communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- On the job experience in similar environment e.g. warehouse
- Experience of working as part of a team
Desirable
- Experience with the use of electric trucks
- Experience in working in pharmacy
Qualification and Professional Training
Essential
- To have Basic Math and English skills e.g. Functional skills Level 2
Desirable
- Willing to undertake or have a Dispensary Stock management Course and any other relevant modules from the NVQ 2 Pharmacy Services course
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexible
- Tidy and clean appearance
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- To have Basic Math and English skills e.g. Functional skills Level 2
- Able to carry out routine tasks under Standard Operating Procedure
- Able to take instructions from more senior members of staff
- Able to read and comprehend written instructions
- Able to communicate effectively
- Recognises own limitations
- Able to work on own initiative
- Able to work as part of a team
Other
Essential
- Capable of occasional moderate lifting <20kg Ability to attend regularly Able to participate in weekend/bank holiday work Physically fit
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective open communication
- Excellence and safety in all that we do
- Challenge but support
- Expect respect and dignity
- Local healthcare that inspires confidence
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
