Pharmacy Assistant

Job summary

TEWV pharmacy team are recruiting a zero hour dispensing assistant to join our pharmacy at Roseberry Park Hospital, Middlesbrough. This post is to cover peak times of annual leave and absence and is an ideal opportunity to gain valuable experience in Mental Health Pharmacy. The successful applicant will be an exceptional team player with good communication and interpersonal skills who are enthusiastic and committed to join our team. Ideally applicants will have previous experience in working within a pharmacy as a dispensing assistant but this is not essential. Applicants own transport is desirable but not essential. This is an exciting time to join a supportive team with development opportunities in a growing NHS pharmacy team.

You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.

Main duties of the job

• To work under pharmacy SOPs to provide a medicines top up and stock management for wards, with supervision available from pharmacy technicians
• To dispense medication against prescriptions and requisitions, calculating appropriate doses and doses for both inpatient and outpatients following SOPs, ensuring prescriptions and requisitions are legal and safe.
• To receive medication supplies from wholesalers and electronically record this.
• To remove unwanted medication from the wards to determine what is suitable for return or destruction as per policies.
• To dispense controlled drugs for ward stock and named patients following all legal requirements.
• To dispense orders for emergency drugs.
• To maintain cost effective holding on the wards.
• To ensure good stock control, ensuring stock checks and expiry date checks are completed in a timely manner.
• Maintain up to date knowledge and competency in the skills required to perform safely and effectively in the role and to undertake relevant statutory and mandatory training and to be responsible for personal development agreed with line manager.

About us

The pharmacy team in TEWV has over 100 team members including drivers, pharmacy assistants, administration, nurses, pharmacy technicians and pharmacists. Individual team members are spread across multiple sites, with a dispensary in each of our 3 localities. The locality teams work independently, but come together to agree standards and best practice, learning from each other and trying to improve.

We developed a 5-year Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy framework which was created with the teams to produce a shared set of themes and priorities. This is 'Our Journey to Change'

Our values are Respect, Compassion and responsibility. If you are a kind, supporting, honest, ambitious team member who thrives on being inclusive and working in partnership - our organisation may be a fit for you.