Pharmacy Services Assistant

Job summary

As a Pharmacy Service Assistant you will undertake duties to support the pharmacy team such as ordering, dispensing, packing and supplying of medicines to wards, departments and patients homes.

You will work closely with the team to gain the required skills, knowledge and behaviours for the role.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role will include -

• To plan own workload, tasks to meet service requirements.
• Communicate information to staff and patients.
• To use computer systems to identify medication that is required to be ordered, labelled and dispensed
• Accurately dispense, package, and label medication following pharmacy standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• To order medication ensuring appropriate stock levels.
• To ensure effective management of the pharmacy ordering system and stock control.
• Check in deliveries.
• To assist in delivering medicines and pharmaceutical supplies to units/wards within the Trust and to patients homes
• Collect medication from the allocated community pharmacy and deliver to patient homes.
• To carry out clinic checks and audits on medicine use and handling.
• To ensure safe storage of medication.
• To be involved with stock and date checks including CDs.
• To assist with drug recall procedure as necessary.
• To deal with routine enquiries from other health care workers and patients.
• To accurately record information on electronic systems.
• To participate in regular supervision identifying, developing and agreeing your own development plan
• Any other duties as reasonably required by the line manager.

About us

We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website

We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.

We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.

We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.

From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.

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