Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 236-DPG-CS258-24
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Royal Oldham Hospital
- Town
- Oldham
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Medicine Management Pharmacy Assistant
Band 3
Job overview
Medicines Management Pharmacy Assistant
The Royal Oldham Hospital
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic team member, working at The Royal Oldham Hospital.
Main duties of the job
Applicants must be reliable, adaptable to change, capable of working in a busy environment and have excellent people skills to be able to communicate with a large range of healthcare professionals, patients and their relatives.
The successful applicant will be responsible for offering a medicines management support service to the pharmacy and ward teams. This involves speaking to patients and relatives about their medicines, helping to avoid missed doses, transferring medicines to other wards and to deliver a strong pharmacy presence in a demanding environment. The post holder will be a vital link between the multidisciplinary team at ward level and the Pharmacy service.
You must be able to prioritise your workload, use initiative, work under pressure, meet deadlines and be committed to the delivery of high standards in a patient focused service.
This post involves working weekends.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
For the latest information around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 2 in Pharmacy Services; or 4 GCSE’s grade C or above, 2 of which must include English and Maths (training for NVQ level 2 in Pharmacy Services, BTEC syllabus is provided if qualification not achieved at appointment)
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to work quickly and accurately under pressure
- Ability to work under their own initiative
- Ability to negotiate
- Ability to problem solve
- Able to receive complex and/or sensitive information and act accordingly
- Good communication (written and verbal skills)
- Basic IT skills
- Good organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Self-reliant
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a team
- Awareness of the range of duties involved in the post
Desirable criteria
- A knowledge of stock control systems
- Knowledge of Pharmacy services
- Previous experience in hospital or community pharmacy
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Carly Bullough
- Job title
- Senior Pharmacy Technician - Ward Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 627 8969
- Additional information
Joanne Appleton
Chief Pharmacy Technician - Patient Services
0161 656 1075
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