Senior Pharmacy Assistant

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Duties of the role include but are not limited to:

• Interpret and dispense prescriptions on a patient specific basis for in-patients outpatients and discharge under the supervision of a team pharmacist/accuracy checking technician
• Ensuring all work is carried out to a high degree of accuracy, safely and efficiently following current standard operating procedures of the department on a daily basis
• To input prescription data into the pharmacy computer system ensuring high levels of accuracy
• To supply controlled drugs on request from designated clinical areas and for discharge / outpatient prescriptions, in accordance with departmental procedures and in compliance with related legislation regarding record keeping, storage and transportation of controlled drugs
• To maintain and replenish identified stock or emergency supplies on a daily basis. To record and monitor medicines room and refrigerator temperatures to ensure storage conditions are within the defined parameters as delegated
• To replace or rotate short dated medicines where appropriate to minimise wastage
• To relay complete and accurate information, recognising self-limitations and referring to appropriate person
• To take appropriate daily action to ensure medication requiring delivery is available to individual patients
• To plan own work, liaising with manager to ensure appropriate management of ward/clinical area work

See job description for full range of duties

Job responsibilities

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.