Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent: Permanant
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (9am-5:15pm Monday to Friday, 1 in 6 weekends (Saturday or Sunday), Bank holiday (1 per year), early (8am) and late duty (until 7pm) rotas.)
- Job ref
- 321-CSS-6080497-B3
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Churchill Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum pro rata
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Pharmacy & Ward Based Assistant
Band 3
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
I am very keen to hear from you if you are an experienced Pharmacy Assistant looking to expand your skillset with a move from Community into Hospital Pharmacy, or are looking to progress further in your career within a Hospital setting. Ideally you will have obtained your Specialist BTEC Level 2 Principles and Practices for Pharmacy Support Staff Pharmacy Service Skills NVQ Level 2 (or equivalent GPhC recognised qualification), although this is not essential and support through the qualification process can be provided (successful applicants who do not hold the required qualification will be paid at band 2, rising to band 3 on successful completion of the qualification). Many of our staff progress from this level to become Pharmacy Technicians or take other roles within the wider Pharmacy team. This position is a blended role involving both the dispensary, and multidisciplinary working with the renal team on a rotational basis at the Churchill Hospital.
The Dispensary team are supported by ever evolving Technology, with electronic prescribing and a robot to support the labelling and dispensing of medications. The successful applicant will be trained in the full use of the robotic system. Key duties of this role include dispensing medicines according to procedure, using the Pharmacy computer system to produce dispensing labels, preparation of emergency drug boxes, maintaining accurate medication records and assisting in efficient stock control management.
Main duties of the job
Key roles include:
- Opportunity to work in both ward and dispensary area.
- Work in reception area taking in prescriptions
- Delivery of high-quality pharmacy services for out-patients
- Labelling and dispensing prescriptions
- To be aware of and be involved in customer service
- Working as part of a team
- Returning ward stock.
- Assisting the wards with stock management
- Relocation of patients own medication.
About you:
- You will respond to enquiries and requests from staff, patients and carers and ensure appropriate and accurate information is readily available, and to escalate questions and problems to other members of the pharmacy team when needed. You will be expected to form good working relationships with staff from all the different groups within the Clinical and Pharmacy team.
- You should ideally have experience of working as a qualified Pharmacy Dispensing Assistant, using computer systems for dispensing and stock control and have good communication, be well organised and able to use your own initiative.
- This post would suit somebody with either a hospital pharmacy background, or with community pharmacy experience wishing to make a change into the hospital environment, for which appropriate training will be provided.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
This is a full-time position, 37.5 hours per week Mon-Friday, with working hours of 9:00-17:15, flexible working options would also be considered. You will also be required to participate in weekend working on a 1:6 rota basis, bank holiday, early and late duty rotas as per rota.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the description above and to the job description.
This will be a combined role with both dispensary and rotational ward responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualities
Essential criteria
- NVQ2 in pharmaceutical sciences
- Experienced dispenser
- Experience of stock management
- Able to work as part of a team and independently
- Proven time management skills
- Able to use own initiative appropriately
- Good verbal communication skills
- Willing to travel between sites
- Enthusiastic and responsible attitude
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Adaptable to change
- Respectful towards colleagues and patients
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS experience
- Experience of using the local pharmacy computer system
- Experience of hospital pharmacy
- Well organised
- A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs
- Experience of a changing work environment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Emma Heyden
- Job title
- Lead Technician for Medicines Optimisation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 857859
- Additional information
If you are interested in an informal discussion about this role, we would be very happy to hear from you. You are welcome to call or email to make an appointment so that we can show you around and answer your questions.
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