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 Senior Pharmacy Assistant to join our friendly Pharmacy Team based at King George Hospital, Goodmayes & Queen's Hospital, Romford.

What will you be doing?

As a Pharmacy Assistant, you will help ensure medicines are available when patients need them by supporting the purchasing and supply of pharmaceuticals across the Trust as well as Omnicell-specific tasks.

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 Stores/Omnicell experience.

You are required to hold a GPhC approved/accredited Level 2 pharmacy qualification appropriate to the role, in order to meet regulatory requirements.

Main duties of the job

Ordering medicines and pharmaceutical products using pharmacy procurement systems.

To work in collaboration with staff cross site and mitigate expired stock by ensuring date checks are carried out monthly within all Omnicell areas.

Assist in managing stock provision/set-up for new Omnicell areas or wards opening/relocating.

Manage stock changes in response to recalls and shortages of medicines.

To train members of Pharmacy and nursing staff in accordance with SOP’s

To accurately process the relevant paperwork and use the pharmacy computer system, when receiving and issuing goods, following the relevant SOPs.

Maintain the security of goods within the department.

Answer queries and complaints from wards and other pharmacy locations concerning the supply and availability of pharmaceuticals.

Supervise pharmacy assistants in the pharmacy stores and the day to day running of the area including training new staff.

Assist with the replenishment and general housekeeping duties for the store robot

To assist in measures to check stock accuracy including becoming a double checker.

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.

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.