Senior Pharmacy Assistant, Medicines Management

Job overview

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Medicines Management Assistant (MMA) team . Our MMA team is required to support the ward based clinical pharmacy services at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust (ESTH).

It is an exciting time to join our team as we have recently restructured our team to help meet our ambition of providing outstanding pharmacy services. As part of this we want to shine a spotlight on MMAs and the value they add to our team, patient care and the organisation.

If you think you have what it takes please give us a call for an informal chat, we can facilitate departmental walk rounds and can give further information about this exciting role.

Main duties of the job

All MMAs at ESTH are NVQ Level 2 trained and provide a full ward based service to ensure the safe, timely and financially sound provision of pharmaceutical items. You will be a key member of the pharmacy clinical team, working together to provide excellent patient focused care.

You should be able to demonstrate excellent communication and time management skills, and have a good attention to detail. NVQ Level 2, previous experience of working in hospital pharmacy and knowledge of pharmacy distribution and stock systems is essential.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Key activities in addition to provision of a regular top-up service will be:

• Support the transfer of patient’s own and dispensed one-stop medication between wards
• To put stock items away and rotate stock to minimise wastage.
• To identify slow moving stock and transfer to alternative locations in the trust to minimise wastage.
• To identify medicines supplied for patients that have been transferred and to deliver to patient's current location to reduce requirement for re-dispensing.
• To check and clear medicine trollies at least once a week.
• To reduce number of expired medicines & liquid medicines not labelled with "opened on"/expiry date.
• To support the ward staff in ensuring fridge and clinical room temperatures are recorded on a daily basis.

The role is primarily ward based and will require a good understanding of medicine supply systems.

You will be required to participate in the seven day, late duty and Bank Holiday rotas .

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.