Job overview

Are you looking for a role where you can make a real difference to patient care every day? We have an exciting opportunity to recruit to Pharmacy Assistant posts to join our friendly and dedicated teams at King George Hospital and Queen’s Hospital.

What will you be doing?
As a Pharmacy Assistant, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring patients receive the medicines they need safely and efficiently. Your responsibilities will include:

•    Dispensing medication for inpatients and outpatients, including controlled drugs. 
•    Managing stock, receiving and checking orders, monitoring expiry dates, and keeping the dispensary organised. 
•    Reception duties, receiving prescriptions and assisting patients and staff. 
•    Supporting wards with top-up services and medicines supply.

What we’re looking for
•    Someone hardworking, accurate, and methodical, with great attention to detail.
•    Excellent communication skills and confidence working with the public.
•    Someone with a good attendance record
•    Experience using computers and working in a pharmacy setting (hospital experience is ideal, but community pharmacy experience is welcome).

Both sites provide full 7-day working and this post will involve some late, weekend and Bank Holiday shifts.

You are required to hold a GPhC approved/accredited Level 2 pharmacy qualification appropriate to the role, in order to meet regulatory requirements. Don’t have it yet? We will still consider your application, if successful, you may join as an apprentice while you complete the qualification – please see the special conditions within the job description for further information.

Interested?
For more details, contact:
•    Helen Little, Dispensary Manager, Queen’s Hospital
[email protected] | 01708 435000 ext 2855
•    Claire Boswell, Dispensary Manager, King George Hospital
[email protected] | 0208 970 9078

Main duties of the job

To carry out pharmacy duties for the provision of a high quality, responsive, patient orientated service, including the dispensing of medicines for inpatients and outpatients, stock management and medicines supply to patients and wards. Duties include reception tasks such as receiving in prescriptions and dealing with adhoc queries from members of the public as well as nursing, doctor and other healthcare staff, training of junior staff and ensuring compliance with SOPs. The role requires accuracy, adherence to safety standards, and effective communication with colleagues and patients.

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.