Job overview

We are recruiting for a Band 2 Pharmacy Assistant post 37.5 hours per week (fixed term, 12 month post)

To undertake, under the direction of pharmacists and technicians, duties that ensure the efficient running of the dispensary.  These include, dispensing, supply of stock medicines, processing orders, purchasing, return and disposal of medicines and stock takes.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

** Previous applicants need not apply **

Main duties of the job

Dispensary and Repeat room

• To dispense inpatient, outpatient, discharge, leave and repeat prescriptions according to SOPs, including those patients requiring medication compliance aids.
• To be responsible for the general tidiness and adequate stocking of the dispensary and ensure good stock rotation to minimise expired stock. 
• To replenish the dispensary with cartons, bottles, and bags on a daily basis.

Distribution

• To be responsible for supplying stock medicines via emailed stock order requests, authorised community orders and eMeds and supplying customers with a computer printout of the drugs supplied and their cost according to SOPs.
• To be responsible for the processing and where necessary the disposal of medicines returned from wards and departments in line with SOPs.
• To deal with telephone enquiries concerning supply of stock medicines, including availability and any discrepancies on stock orders. 

Stores

• To undertake the day-to-day ordering, delivering, and invoicing of medicines, using the Emishealth pharmacy computer system, according to SOPs.
• To be responsible for ordering bottles, cartons and other sundries ensuring the department is never out of stock.
• To deal directly with suppliers to problem solve any issues with drug availability and discrepancies on orders and invoices. 

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care