Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (rota for late nights, weekends and bank holidays)
- Job ref
- 275-2407PMGA
- Employer
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Gillingham
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Medical Gas Assistant
Band 4
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.
Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job overview
Pharmacy Medical Gas Assistant
Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies
Band: 4
Salary: £25,147 - £27,596 per annum/pro rata
Interview Date: 29th July 2024
We are recruiting for a Pharmacy Medical Gas Assistant who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Are you committed to delivering a high-quality service in a busy department that focuses on improving patient care and experience? If so, then this will be perfect for you.
We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic individual to join our Pharmacy Medicines Optimisation Team to specialise in medical gases. It is a truly perfect opportunity for a dynamic Pharmacy Assistant/Pharmacy Technician to expand their knowledge and upskill in a specialist area.
Main duties of the job
In post, you will be able to make a significant difference and have a positive impact for patients at Medway NHS Foundation Trust, working within a highly committed team delivering a fantastic service.
As part of the Pharmacy Medicines Optimisation Team you will primarily help us improve the overall management of medical gas cylinders but also integrate within the procurement team, in delivering and contributing to the medicines efficiency programme.
This post will support the ordering of medical gas cylinders and work with a number of key stakeholders including the Estates & Facilities Team and clinical teams in optimising stock management. The successful candidate be provided with appropriate training, knowledge and experience, in order to participate in the safe and effective delivery of pharmacy services across the Trust.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To transfer and oversee the ordering process of medical gas cylinders. Portering and receipt of stock will remain a function under the Estates and Facilities Department.
Utilising clinical pharmacy knowledge and skills, ensuring medical gases are ordered in line with other medical and are clinically appropriate, challenging where necessary.
To liaise with Trust stakeholders to procure individual lines of medical cylinders from a primary supplier (subject to Trust contractual frameworks).
To advise clinical teams to ensure the most appropriate cylinder choices are made for clinical patient need and Trust equipment.
To confidently answer queries utilising pharmacy knowledge regarding medical gas cylinders, streamlining the ordering process so that only shortages are escalated to Lead Pharmacist Medicines Optimisation.
To liaise with the Finance department to resolve any invoice queries.
To support the Lead Pharmacist Medicines Optimisation in the review and writing of Trust processes for the management of medical gases under the guidance of the Lead Pharmacist Medicines Optimisation, including safe storage, transport of medical gases when in patient
Ensure that processes and protocols are standardised across the Trust to ensure safe, high-quality and cost effective management of medical gases.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 3 or working towards
Desirable criteria
- CIPs qualification
Knowledge
Desirable criteria
- knowledge of medical gases
IT profeciency
Essential criteria
- Experienced in using Microsoft EXCEL
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sharon Meehan
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist Medicines optimisation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01634 974576
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