Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Rotational Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced pharmacy assistant who has completed NVQ level 2 in pharmacy services or equivalent? At LUFHT, we may have the perfect opportunity for you. We are looking for a Rotational Senior Pharmacy Assistant who can act as a great role model, provide excellent training, and demonstrate our trust values. You must be able to show great leadership qualities, a broad experience of working in a pharmacy, and knowledge and understanding of working in a hospital. We want to recruit a Senior Pharmacy Assistant who is enthusiastic and motivated, and who will work to our professional standards to provide an efficient and patient-focused service. You may be required to rotate across all sites of LUHFT.

In the role as a Rotational Senior Pharmacy Assistant, you must have excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and be flexible as you will work within our dispensaries, stores, and on wards alongside pharmacy teams including pharmacy assistants, pharmacy technicians, and pharmacists. You will be required to supervise the work of pharmacy assistants, ensuring work is prioritized appropriately, and play a key role in training and development of staff to maintain quality and standards of work. You will be required to participate in evening, weekend, and Bank Holiday working in keeping with the Pharmacy Directorate arrangements and the needs of the Trust.

Key Responsibilities:

• Dispense and issue medicines from the Pharmacy Department including extemporaneously prepared products, controlled drugs, unlicensed medicines, and clinical trials, in accordance with the policies, procedures, and safe systems of work.
• Order and supply pharmaceuticals as part of the ward stock top-up service.
• Load medicines received into the automated dispensing machine.
• Take lead responsibility for reception duties and direct workload and queries to the most appropriate staff members within the department.
• Input data into the Pharmacy computer system to ensure all appropriate records are made and kept up to date.
• Receive medicines into the Pharmacy Department and ensure that documentation and computer entry is carried out in a timely and accurate manner.
• Investigate and resolve delivery discrepancies, liaising with invoicing staff and suppliers.
• Ensure that all pharmaceutical preparations are stored appropriately.
• Rotate stock at the point of goods receipt.
• Deal with more complicated enquiries referring to the line manager if they are not commensurate with the role.
• Ensure that all unused medicines are recycled in accordance with the safe systems of work.
• Manually handle IV fluids, bulk feed deliveries, and manoeuvre cages and tote boxes for delivery.
• Deliver medicines to wards and departments as required.
• Deal with frequent interruptions, e.g., telephone enquiries from internal and external customers.
• Fix the robot when basic errors occur.
• Participate in daily stock count.
• Issue medicines which are on the “To-Follows” list.
• Participate in development and project work in line with the objectives of the Trust and Pharmacy Directorate.
• Check picked stock items to ensure accuracy of medicines supplies on top up.
• Train, supervise, and assess support workers.
• Deliver robot error training for pharmacy assistants and other staff who are new to the department.
• Deal with ad hoc stock requests as they arise from wards/departments and outside clinics.
• Supply emergency orders.
• Support pharmacy assistants with NVQ level 2 training where appropriate.
• Prioritize work so that services meet their objectives.
• Ensure that procedures are carried out in accordance with current legislation and regulations.
• Participate and cooperate in weekend, Bank Holiday, Statutory Holiday, early morning, and evening services.
• Undertake other reasonable duties commensurate with this role as required.
• Work across sites where required.
• Adapt to changes that may occur within the Pharmacy Department.

This advert closes on Monday 9 Dec 2024.