Senior Pharmacy Homecare Assistant, Band 3
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 08 October 2024
Job summary
An enthusiastic and hard working person is required to work within the pharmacy homecare team at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
Main duties are based in the pharmacy homecare office, processing of homecare prescriptions and invoices, and maintaining patient records for homecare medications. This will involve reviewing prescriptions to ensure they are fully compliant before scanning and posting them to external homecare providers. You will also use the pharmacy computer system to produce purchase order numbers for each prescription and check invoices against these orders ready for payment. You will also book out (but not dispense) medication to patients via the pharmacy computer system so that divisions are charged appropriately. You will be required to maintain accurate records of prescriptions and invoices on the computer system and in a format that information can be accessed efficiently. Post holder will be required to process invoices and pass for payment to creditors.
You will be required to answer the phone on a regular basis and this will mean that you will need to communicate with patients, healthcare professionals and homecare provider staff.
Main duties of the job
- Review and process homecare prescriptions
- Review and process homecare provider invoices and pass them for payment to creditors
- Communicate with a range of healthcare professionals within trust and homecare providers. Communication via emails, phone and face to face
- Using Trust computer system with programmes like EMIS, Sunrise Clinical Manager and Microsoft Office
About us
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.
Date posted
20 September 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 3
Salary
£24,071 to £25,674 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
318-24-D&S-T1782
Job locations
Gloucestershire Royal
Gloucester
GL1 3NN
Employer details
Employer name
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Gloucestershire Royal
Gloucester
GL1 3NN
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