Pharmacy Assistant

Job summary

Please note that we are unable to offer Certificates of Sponsorship for this role. Are you looking for a rewarding role that supports outstanding patient care. If so, we would love to hear from you.

We are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals to join our friendly hospital pharmacy team as Pharmacy Assistants. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to delivering high-quality patient care and play an important role in ensuring patients receive the right care, first time, every time.

We currently have both full-time and part-time opportunities available at Worcestershire Royal hospital, Worcester. As a Pharmacy Assistant, you will be a key member of the team and often the first point of contact for healthcare professionals and members of the public accessing our services.

You will need to be self-motivated, organised, and able to work accurately in a busy environment. Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to meet deadlines are essential.

This is an ideal opportunity for individuals who are passionate about patient care and keen to begin or develop a career within hospital pharmacy.

Main duties of the job You will work as part of a multidisciplinary pharmacy team, collaborating closely with Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Assistants to support the delivery of high-quality patient care.

The role offers the opportunity to gain experience across a range of pharmacy services and functions, providing a broad understanding of hospital pharmacy operations. Applicants must be able to work accurately and efficiently, demonstrate excellent attention to detail, and adapt to a variety of tasks within a busy working environment.

Flexibility, teamwork, and the ability to meet deadlines are essential to the successful delivery of the service. For main duties of the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

About us

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 committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

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.

Job description

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responsibilities

Duties are varied and may include: Picking, packing and assembling medicines in stock distribution. Pharmacy stores receiving and processing orders. Manning the reception within the dispensary, speaking to both staff and patients and dealing with queries.

Supplying medicines to wards and departments by means of a top-up. Picking intravenous fluids Duties within our sterile preparation suites. Delivery of medication to wards and departments.

Replenishing specialist emergency boxes Participate in established Bank Holiday and Weekend Rotas until the introduction of 7 day working when contracted hours will be undertaken over 7 days. Part Time hours will be paid pro-rata. Please refer to the full Job description for more detail.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills Essential -Able to carry out verbal and written instructions accurately. -Able to communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and written. -Able to accurately record and file information -Customer Service skills -Skilled at multi-tasking - Please provide an example of when you have used your initiative to resolve a problem in your current or a previous role. - Demonstrate why you believe you would be the best candidate for this role.

Qualifications

Desirable -Customer Service Qualification and or Pharmacy Counter Assistant qualification Experience Essential -Previous experience of working as part of a team -Experience in applying attention to detail and producing work to the required standard. -Working to deadlines -Previous experience in a customer service or patient care setting -Experience of using different computer software -After reading the job description, please provide examples of how your experience in your current or previous roles will be transferable to this role.

Desirable -Previous experience of working as a pharmacy assistant or counter assistant in hospital or community pharmacy -Previous experience of receipt and controlling of stock Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.