Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Support Worker - Invoice Processing & Medicines Procurement
NHS AfC: Band 3
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
We have an exciting vacancy within our Pharmacy Purchasing, Invoicing & Homecare team. We are looking for someone who is hard working, enthusiastic and has excellent communication skills to join us. This is a permanent vacancy and full training will be provided.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit a forward thinking and enthusiastic individual to join our small but busy pharmacy purchasing, invoicing & Homecare team.
Your duties will include:
- The purchasing and receipt of all medicines on behalf of the Trust and external customers
- Manual and electronic processing of all pharmaceutical invoices and payment claims
- The ordering, receipt and invoicing of Homecare medicines in line with national standards
- Dealing with queries relating to all purchasing and invoicing issues
- Working in accordance with the Pharmacy’s wholesale dealers and home office licences
- Ensuring medicines are procured in line with the Department of Health and the Trusts strategies
- Occasional cover of goods receipt area which may involve prolonged standing and heavy lifting
- Ordering and invoicing of all Homecare medicines for the Trust
Excellent numeracy, literacy and IT skills, as well as previous experience of working in either a busy finance, procurement or pharmacy environment are all essential for this role.
This role requires attention to detail and strong communication skills to ensure all medicines for the Trust are procured, received and invoiced correctly and on time.
It is a challenging but rewarding role which requires someone that has the ability to work in a pressurized environment, using their own initiative and is able to meet deadlines.
Candidates who are invited to interview will be required to carry out a basic numeracy and literacy skills test.
Working for our organisation
The Pharmacy Department at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals consists of over 140 members of staff. We provide a wide range of services including clinical support at ward level, a dispensary service, aseptic services, medicines procurement, clinical trials, medicines information and much more.
We are a friendly department and pride ourselves on making everyone feel welcome when they join our team.
We recommend that all individuals employed in patient facing roles, or those located on a ward or department where patients receive a service should be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please ensure that you have read the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.
Person specification
qualifications
Essential criteria
- Good basic education including maths & English GCSE or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- NVQ level 2 in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- IT Qualification
experience
Essential criteria
- At least 2 years’ experience working in hospital pharmacy.
- Experience of dealing with stock.
- Experience of pharmacy PMR system
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a pharmacy department and with Pharmaceutical computer systems
- Electronic Invoicing and Finance Systems experience
- Experience in procurement of medicines in the NHS.
skills/attributes
Essential criteria
- Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Problem solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
Desirable criteria
- Drug contracting knowledge
- Knowledge of medicines, forms, strengths and basic clinical uses.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Angela Nausino
- Job title
- Senior Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 953931
- Additional information
If you would like to know any more details, please contact Angela Nausino
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
BTH
- Telephone
- 01253 957001
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