Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 153-SP03994-C
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole Hospital
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 05/06/2025
Employer heading
Pharmacy Homecare Administrator
Band 3
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
We currently have a vacancy for a Pharmacy Homecare Administrator. You will be working within the Pharmacy team processing prescriptions/ services and invoices through the Homecare management system to ensure patients receive delivery of their medications direct to their homes.
Are you looking for an exciting and challenging new role? Are you an enthusiastic and motivated team player who wants to work in a diverse and dynamic department? If this is you why not come and join one of our Pharmacy teams at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. We have a great opportunity together to improve outcomes for patients, make better use of all our resources, and ensure our services can be provided on a sustainable basis.
Main duties of the job
Our departments understand the importance of good team working and have strong links with our clinical and nursing colleagues. Ward round attendance in various areas is well established and we are regarded as integral members of the team. The patient is at the centre of all that we do and our strategy is to provide a pharmacy service that has medicines optimisation at its heart.
Bournemouth and Poole offer almost unrivalled opportunities for an excellent work-life balance as we benefit from having two bustling town centres, miles of sandy golden beaches and easy access to many other surrounding areas of natural beauty including the Jurassic Coast and the New Forest. Transport links are excellent with Bournemouth airport, ferry terminals and direct train access to London.
Base Location: Poole Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE’s or equivalent at grade A-C, including English and Maths
- RSA II or equivalent proven computer literacy and keyboard skills
- NVQ Level 2 in accounting or business administration or equivalent, or by demonstration of experience, knowledge and skills at this level relevant to these qualifications
Desirable criteria
- RSA III or equivalent
- European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a business or office environment
- Experience of financial processes
- Good level of experience of IT software, in particular good Excel spreadsheet skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of computerised financial systems
- Experience working with pharmacy terminology or pharmaceutical products
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
- Shauna Keen
- Job title
- Homecare Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 3090
- Additional information
Sam Murray
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