Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- AFC Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-LG-EMF19423-B2
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £25,768 per annum pro rata including high cost area supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy Porter
AFC Band 2
Job overview
ThThe role is to provide the safe and secure delivery of medicines from the Pharmacy Dispensary and Store to wards and departments at the RSCH. You will work closely with both teams to ensure delivery at allocated times and assist with duties within the Pharmacy store as required. You will also be responsible for the ordering, receipt and distribution of bulk fluids.
Main duties of the job
To provide a delivery and support service from the Pharmacy Dispensary and stores to wards and departments at the RSCH
Securely deliver medicines, including controlled drugs to wards and departments.
To work closely with the Pharmacy Dispensary and Store Teams to ensure delivery at allocated times.
To order, receive and distribute IV and bulk fluids.
Assist with the archiving of Stores picking lists and worksheets.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Collect empty pharmacy boxes and envopaks from designated wards and departments and return them to the main Pharmacy.
Collect Pharmacy returns boxes containing medicines for re-use and destruction from designated wards and departments and return them to the main Pharmacy.
Collect Pharmacy chemotherapy boxes and return them to the Pharmacy Aseptic Department.
Securely deliver filled ward boxes containing stock medicines from the Pharmacy store to designated wards and departments, completing all relevant paperwork.
Deliver IV and bulk fluids from the Pharmacy Level A Storeroom to designated wards and departments, completing all relevant paperwork. Store in secure cupboards or allocated areas at ward level ensuring stock rotation.
Seal envopaks containing inpatient medication and TTO’s within the Dispensary, complete paperwork and securely deliver to wards and departments at allocated times, obtaining a signature from ward staff upon receipt. Scan paperwork and update the tracker system of items delivered.
Securely deliver Controlled Drug orders to wards and departments in sealed envopaks, obtaining a signature upon receipt from an authorised Nurse. Scan paperwork and update the tracker system of items delivered.
Sign for the delivery of drugs and ensure delivery notes and invoices are dealt with appropriately.
Inform procurement staff immediately of any delivery errors.
Responsible for checking, unpacking and putting away orders received from suppliers ensuring that the stock is correct, fit for use, stored correctly and that stock is rotated to ensure minimal wastage.
Retrieve pallets of IV and bulk fluids from the level A loading bay and store in the level A fluid storeroom either manually or using the pallet truck as appropriate, removing empty pallets to the loading bay for collection.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE English and Maths or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Pharmacy Stores Services qualification or relevant experience
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Team working
- Experience dealing with the public
Desirable criteria
- Stores and distribution experience
- Previous experience in stock control
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Esther Davis-Bawn
- Job title
- Senior Technician Stores & Distribu
- Telephone number
- 01483 571122
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