Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy and Medicines Management
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 13.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-AC169-0424
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £23,159 - £24,701 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Admin Assistant - Pharmacy
Band 3
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
The post holder will work as part of a team within a busy office environment. The post holder will provide a range of administrative support to the Medicines Management Administration Team, Education and Training Team and Pharmacy staff.
This will include organisation and co-ordination of meetings, minute taking, inputting data, collating figures and information for use in reports, supporting clinical, education and training and health and safety commitments and disseminating information to a range of internal and external contacts.
The post holder must be able to plan and organise their own workload efficiently using initiative and have the ability to prioritise work and to respond appropriately.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity for a Band 3 Administration Assistant has become available to join the pharmacy team at the Princess of Wales Hospital Bridgend.
You must possess excellent communication and organisational skills in order to provide an efficient and safe pharmacy service for patients at the Princess of Wales Hospital.
Our Administration Assistants are valued members of the Pharmacy team and this role is an opportunity to develop further to support the Pharmacy staff working in all areas of Pharmacy. You will gain experience across a variety of specialties, working closely with Technicians and Pharmacists to deliver a high quality, patient focused medicines management service.
We are committed to the development of our staff and offer excellent training where you will be supported and encouraged to develop in this role.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifactions
Essential criteria
- GCSE Maths and English to Grade C or above
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous work experience within Administration
Desirable criteria
- Previous work experience within healthcare
Attributes
Essential criteria
- Accurate and methodical
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Caprie Thomas
- Job title
- Senior Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 752420
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