Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 32 hours per week
- Job ref
- 409-7019439
- Employer
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ormskirk Hospital
- Town
- Ormskirk
- Salary
- £24,169 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/05/2025
Employer heading
Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer
NHS AfC: Band 2
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Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join a developing and motivated team of pharmacy staff serving Southport & Ormskirk sites. We are currently developing and expanding our medicines management practices both within the department and at ward level. This post will be key to our planned developments and will be based at Ormskirk & District Hospital within a modernised stores setting. Duties will include working within the Pharmacy Department & at ward level, general stock control, ordering, receipt and supply of medicines.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will participate with other team members of the pharmacy staff aiming to provide an efficient and comprehensive pharmaceutical service within the pharmacy departments of Southport and Ormskirk Hospitals, under the direction of the Chief Pharmacist. Duties will include stock ordering and rotation, “top-up”, storage and dealing with stock.
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
KEY DUTIES
Main Duties & Responsibilities
- To be a member of the Pharmaceutical Service team as required at Southport District General, or Ormskirk District General Hospitals.
- To participate in the physical receipt of medicines and sundries, including signing for delivery and put away such items in the appropriate location ensuring stock rotation. To assist in the maintenance of stock levels and stock storage ensuring efficient turnover whilst maintaining quality and potency.
- To participate in ward “topping-up” service for stock items held on wards and departments, including checking stock levels and placing newly ordered items into stock under the supervision of the Technical Services Manager.
- To raise orders for wards departments, and community clinics as per approved stock order sheets, across both sites, using the EMIS Pharmacy computer system.
- To input data into the pharmacy computer system as necessary and to provide information such as pricing lists and delivery notes.
- To assemble and pack stocks of medicines for wards, departments and associated hospitals.
- Following successful training completion of the internal training package, accuracy check orders of stock medicines for wards, departments and associated hospitals.
- To check expiry dates of stock items on a regular basis, no less than monthly.
- To ensure the appropriate return of drugs into stock and assist in the maintenance of accurate and reasonable stock levels.
- To record and liaise with external companies to ensure the safe disposal of waste, including clinical waste returned from wards in accordance with local policy and departmental procedures.
- To record and monitor refrigerator temperatures in accordance with local policy and departmental procedures.
- To file documentation and prescriptions as required in accordance to Trust Guidelines for record storage and departmental procedures.
- To answer telephone and face to face queries of a routine nature from a wide range of staff groups, either in the Pharmacy or on the wards. Refer appropriate queries to the relevant member of the Pharmacy team when necessary.
- To liaise with various members of the Pharmacy team and ward staff when solving supply problems and ensuring the best service to patients.
- To ascertain requirements for departmental sundry orders.
- To cash and record contents of dispensary till.
- To participate in Annual Performance Appraisal Reviews, setting joint objectives in relation to the Trust set objectives.
- To co-operate in the operation and development of the EMIS pharmacy computer system under the direction of the Computer Systems Manager.
- To participate with Saturday and Bank Holiday duties on a Rota basis.
- To participate on a voluntary basis with late night duties as considered appropriate by the Technical Services Manager or other supervising pharmacists or senior technical staff.
- To participate in appropriate training schemes for pharmaceutical staff. To keep relevant pharmaceutical clinical and technical knowledge up to date.
CLINICAL & PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Adhere to the Standards for Pharmacy Professionals as set out by the GPhC
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
- To raise orders for wards departments, and community clinics as per approved stock order sheets, across both sites, using the EMIS Pharmacy computer system.
- To input data into the pharmacy computer system as necessary and to provide information such as pricing lists and delivery notes.
TEACHING & TRAINING RESPONSIBILITIES
- To undertake Mandatory training on an Annual basis determined by the Trust on CPR, Risk and Manual Handling.
- Undertake appropriate mandatory training in infection control and comply with all Trust Infection Control policies relevant to the post, particularly with regard to the hand hygiene policy
- To provide mentoring, induction and training of student technician’s, pre-registration pharmacists, dispensary ATOs, summer placement and work experience students and any other relevant members of the Pharmacy team.
FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
· To participate in the physical receipt of medicines and sundries, including signing for delivery and put away such items in the appropriate location ensuring stock rotation. To assist in the maintenance of stock levels and stock storage ensuring efficient turnover whilst maintaining quality and potency.
RESEARCH & AUDIT
· To participate in ward base SSHM audits under the direction of the Technical Services Manager on a quarterly basis.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ LEVEL II in Pharmacy Services (hold or work towards)
Other
Essential criteria
- Physical Effort - To sit at VDU, to push, pull and handle deliveries of drugs
- Mental Effort - To concentrate for stock issue and checking
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Computer literate
Desirable criteria
- Dispensing Assistant
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Ability to pay attention to detail
- Ability to work to a high specification of accuracy
- Ability to understand the importance of confidentiality
- Commitment to Continual Professional Development
- Good time management skills
- Self-motivating and flexible
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Richard Evans
- Job title
- Stores and Procurement Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01695 65 6229
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