Job overview

Are you organised, detail-focused and looking for a role where you can make a real difference to patient care behind the scenes? We have an exciting opportunity for a Procurement Pharmacy Assistant to join our friendly Pharmacy Procurement Team based at Queen's Hospital, Romford. 

What will you be doing? 
As a Procurement Pharmacy Assistant, you will help ensure medicines are available when patients need them by supporting the purchasing and supply of pharmaceuticals across the Trust. Duties include:
•    Ordering medicines and pharmaceutical products using pharmacy procurement systems.
•    Monitoring stock levels and placing orders to maintain supply.
•    Liaising with suppliers to resolve delivery, pricing and availability issues.
•    Processing procurement administration, including claim-backs and stock monitoring.
•    Supporting drug recalls and electronic ordering systems.
•    Working with pharmacy teams to deliver an efficient and cost-effective service.

What we're looking for
•    An organised and methodical individual with excellent attention to detail.
•    Good communication, customer service and IT skills.
•    The ability to prioritise workload and work under pressure.
•    A team player who can also work independently.
•    Ideally you should have previous pharmacy procurement experience.

You are required to hold a GPhC approved/accredited Level 2 pharmacy qualification appropriate to the role, in order to meet regulatory requirements. The post is based at Queen's Hospital, but may be required to do cross-site working as required.

Interested?
For further information, please contact:
Lauren Pittard: Pharmacy Procurement Manager
[email protected]
01708 435000 ext. 4954

Main duties of the job

To support the efficient and cost-effective procurement of pharmaceuticals by ordering, sourcing, and monitoring medicines and related products, maintaining stock availability, liaising with suppliers, and assisting in the smooth operation of pharmacy procurement services across the Trust.

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. 

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.