Job summary
Employer heading
Pharmacy Storekeeper
NHS AfC: Band 3
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
- Works in Pharmacy Stores and supports Drug Distribution when required.
- Use Pharmacy stock control system to receive, unpack, input deliveries into the robot and receive deliveries of nutritional feeds for diet store.
- Produce picking lists, packs and supply drugs and medicines to wards and departments.
- Ensure expiry date checks of the medicine’s stored in pharmacy stores, fridge and freezers are regularly checked.
- Carry out rolling stock checks generated by the pharmacy system.
- Unpack delivery from suppliers, receive medicines and them away in their allocated locations e.g. pharmacy robot, rolling shelves etc.
- Support with training of staff rotating in stores.
- Support the operations in the purchasing office
- Assist with checking the diet store.
- Participate in weekend and bank holiday shifts as per departmental
Main duties of the job
- Works in Pharmacy Stores and supports Drug Distribution when required.
- Use Pharmacy stock control system to receive, unpack, input deliveries into the robot and receive deliveries of nutritional feeds for diet store.
- Produce picking lists, packs and supply drugs and medicines to wards and departments.
- Ensure expiry date checks of the medicine’s stored in pharmacy stores, fridge and freezers are regularly checked.
- Carry out rolling stock checks generated by the pharmacy system.
- Unpack delivery from suppliers, receive medicines and them away in their allocated locations e.g. pharmacy robot, rolling shelves etc.
- Support with training of staff rotating in stores.
- Support the operations in the purchasing office
- Assist with checking the diet store.
- Participate in weekend and bank holiday shifts as per departmental
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ (QCF) level 2 in Pharmacy Services or an equivalent Pharmacy Assistant certificate
- Good standard of education, GCSE or equivalent
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Worked in a pharmacy either hospital or retail
- Dealing with the public/ healthcare professionals
Desirable criteria
- Worked in a Hospital Pharmacy Stores & Distribution Department
Skills, abilities, and attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to train and supervise staff.
- Ability to learn fast, be flexible, a good team player and show initiative.
- Good communication skills
- Good organisational skills.
Desirable criteria
- IT Microsoft skills an advantage
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hanisha Modasia
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 8692765
- Additional information
Sobia Altaf on 0208 8692214
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