Senior Support Worker

Job summary

1.To assist in the assembly of stock to wards and departments.2.To mark and assemble I.V. fluids for delivery to wards and departments.3.To accurately compute stock orders for wards and departments.4.To assist in ensuring work is prioritised effectively within the department.5.To assist with the top-up service as directed by the Technician Team manager (after appropriate training.)6.To assist with the EDC top-up7.To complete other tasks within distribution as directed by the Rotational Technician8.To manage the process of medication returns within the department in a timely manner9. To handle bulk fluids accurately ensuring accurate storage and handling.

Main duties of the job

1.To receive deliveries into the Pharmacy, ensuring that the driver deliverydocumentation is checked as correct before accepting the delivery. Some deliveries arrive on pallets, which may be up to 500kg in weight and require the use of handling equipment (Pallet Truck).2.To unpack deliveries and record receipt of the goods in accordance with standard procedures, confirming all batch numbers and expiry dates with invoices, input the data on the pharmacy computer system and put the stock away to maintain the efficiency of the pharmacy stock system.3.When goods are received to identify unlicensed products and to place them into quarantine awaiting approval for use.4.To remove from stock, goods no longer fit for use and when authorized to dispose of such goods.5.To issue against requisition lists goods to wards and outlying areas, ensuring that the item issued matches that requisitioned.6.To issue intravenous fluids and other bulky products to wards and departments.This involves handling and lifting of boxes up to 10-15kg in weight, on a daily basis.7.Responsible for maintenance of stock in the fluid store.8.To carry out physical stock counts of goods as required.9.To ensure the recording of expiry dates and to maintain records of expiry date checks at designated times.10.To package vaccines for delivery so as to maintain the cold chain.

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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