Job summary
Employer heading
Pharmacy Summer Vacation Worker
Band 2
Job overview
Are you a pharmacy student currently at university studying MPharm?
Are you looking for work experience?
At Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, we are looking for two bright and enthusiastic MPharm students to join our pharmacy team.
This role will provide you with experience, knowledge and skills within the pharmacy workplace, where you will be able to work alongside all levels of pharmacy staff.
Main duties of the job
- To dispense to a high standard of accuracy a variety of prescriptions.
- To gain knowledge and understanding of the hospital pharmacy technicians, through shadowing and observing the work they do.
- To gain knowledge and understanding of the hospital pharmacists by shadowing and observing the work they do.
- To participate in the collection of data from some of the pharmacy audits and help produce the reports required.
Working for our organisation
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Currently undertaking a vocational Master’s degree in Pharmacy in the UK (having successfully completed a minimum of one year of the course.
Desirable criteria
- Computer Literate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous Hospital/ Community Pharmacy experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous team work experience
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona Dunton
- Job title
- Specialist Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03033303942
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