Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend working on rotation.)
- Job ref
- 156-7450599
- Employer
- Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Cornwall Hospital
- Town
- Truro
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Warehouse and Stores Manager Development Post
Band 5
Job overview
· Royal Cornwall Hospital Pharmacy Stores Team are looking for an enthusiastic individual to manage the operational aspects of the Pharmacy Stores service for the Secondary care services in Cornwall; including but not limited to; direct liaison with key stakeholders and suppliers to overcome delays and to help maximise performance; direct liaison with key pharmacy staff to advise on delays, particularly where treatment is of an urgent nature. This post is a development role for the right candidate to progress from a Band 4 to Band 5 based on the development criteria within the job description. The successful applicant will need to complete a suitable level 3 qualification in health and safety or warehouse management related fields.
Main duties of the job
- To work towards managing the operational aspects of the Pharmacy Stores Service at the Royal Cornwall Hospital covering customers throughout the Cornwall Healthcare community. The includes direct liaison with key customers and suppliers to overcome delays and to help maximise performance.
· To manage the team that organise and maintain efficient drug purchasing for fluids and feeds held within the pharmacy store.
· To manage the receipt of all pharmaceuticals into the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.
· To ensure the pharmacy stores is compliant with all aspects of Good Distribution Practice.
· To have responsibility for health and safety within the pharmacy store including proactive risk assessment within the store, training and maintenance of equipment.
· Maintain a programme of stock checks, expiry date checks and critical drug usage monitoring checks.
· Manage the ordering of medical gases for RCHT.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with
visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million.
We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side.
To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:
- Identity Checks
- Professional registration and qualification checks
- Employment history and reference checks
- Occupational Health clearance
- Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check
- Right to work in the UK
For further information please visit:
https://www.nhsemployers.org/topics-networks/employment-standards-and-regulation
We reserve the right to close this advert early.
We may be able to offer flexible working. Please discuss at interview.
We may be able to offer sponsorship but this is not guaranteed.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- To be able to meet the requirements for entry onto a suitable level 3 course
- GCSE in maths and science at grade 4 or above
Desirable criteria
- Level 4 Management Qualification
- EDCL or equivalent
- Warehouse operational Good Distribution Practice Certificate
- Medical gas handling train the trainer training
- NEBOSH or warehouse management Level 3 Certificate
- Warehouse operations and Good Distribution Practice requirements and/or management qualification to diploma level or equivalent in-house training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of liaising with customers and suppliers.
- Experience of supervising a team of staff including organisation of day to day work, training, recruitment and appraisal.
- Experience of investigating problems and resolving day to day issues within a pharmacy stores environment.
- Expired of supervising a warehouse
Desirable criteria
- Experience involving the supply and/or purchase of medicines in a healthcare setting.
- Experience of the Wellsky stock control system.
- Experience of managing a team
- Experience of applying good distribution practice principles to pharmaceutical warehouse management.
- Significant experience of supervising a pharmaceutical warehouse.
- Experience of utilising a stock control system at an advanced level, including understanding of stock algorithms and costing methodologies.
Practical and Intellectual Skills
Essential criteria
- Numerate and with excellent interpersonal skills
- Negotiating skills for liaising with suppliers and customers regarding contractual issues.
- Frequent requirement to concentrate.
- Able to interpret complex financial information concerning contractual information.
- Able to communicates technical information to departmental colleagues and external customers.
- Able to author and implement standard operating procedures for purchasing area
- Able to organise and adjust rotas and plan plans work schedules.
- Able to use lifting and handling equipment.
- UK drivers licence able to undertake driving of a van.
- Experience of dealing with service complaints and issues
- Able to maintain stores equipment
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
- Adam Edwards
- Job title
- Chief Technician Pharmacy Procurement
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01872 252592
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