Job overview

We are seeking an enthusiastic and ambitious individual to join the staff in the Purchasing and Distribution department within Pharmacy at Queens Hospital, Essex.

 You will be required to:

- To ensure the safe storage, and supply of Pharmaceuticals to wards, departments, and dispensaries throughout the trust.

- To work in distribution, receiving, purchasing and invoicing areas.

- To be responsible for the standards within the stores area, promoting good practice, Training and development of staff.

- To manage the daily stock check within pharmacy stores.

- To assist in the implementation and running of the Pharmacy stores robot.

- You will be self-motivated with good communication skills. 

- You will have good time management and able to work effectively in a team and under their own initiative.

The position demands a well organised person, who can multi-task and demonstrate ability to accurately follow instruction and maintain competence in a very busy stores environment to provide a customer focused service.

Previous experience working within the NHS is desirable.

It would be desirable but not essential of some experience within the Pharmacy store and purchasing environment, although training and guidance will be given to the successful candidate.

Keyboard skills and knowledge of Microsoft office, Word and Excel are essential.

Main duties of the job

To liaise and support the Pharmacy store Manager, to supervise within the pharmacy store area and provide cover for Pharmacy Procurement and Invoicing.

You will assist in the day to day running of the department. They will ensure the safe storage and supply of Pharmaceuticals to wards, departments and dispensaries 
throughout the Trust. You will be responsible for standards within the area, promoting good practice, training and development of staff. You will help implement the running of the Pharmacy robot.

You will be expected to cover Pharmacy purchasing and invoicing. 

Team working and organisational skills are required together with ability to prioritise when necessary. You should be able to remain calm under pressure and work conscientiously whilst paying particular attention to detail.

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.