Pharmacy Assistant (Progression Post)

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care —our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.

We’re committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

We won’t rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.

Job overview

Applicants own transport is desirable but not essential. This is an exciting time to join a supportive team with development opportunities in a growing NHS pharmacy team.

• To work under pharmacy SOPs to provide a medicines top up and stock management for wards, with supervision available from pharmacy technicians
• To dispense medication against prescriptions and requisitions, calculating appropriate doses and doses for both inpatient and outpatients following SOPs, ensuring prescriptions and requisitions are legal and safe.
• To receive medication supplies from wholesalers and electronically record this.
• To remove unwanted medication from the wards to determine what is suitable for return or destruction as per policies.
• To dispense controlled drugs for ward stock and named patients following all legal requirements.
• To dispense orders for emergency drugs.
• To maintain cost effective holding on the wards.
• To ensure good stock control, ensuring stock checks and expiry date checks are completed in a timely manner.
• Maintain up to date knowledge and competency in the skills required to perform safely and effectively in the role and to undertake relevant statutory and mandatory training and to be responsible for personal development agreed with line manager.

Working for our organisation

The locality teams work independently, but come together to agree standards and best practice, learning from each other and trying to improve.

We developed a 5-year Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy framework which was created with the teams to produce a shared set of themes and priorities. This is 'Our Journey to Change'

Our values are Respect, Compassion and responsibility. If you are a kind, supporting, honest, ambitious team member who thrives on being inclusive and working in partnership - our organisation may be a fit for you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

Person specification

Experience

• Experience of stock management
• Telephone, email and internet experience
• Experience of working supportively within a team

• Experience of working in pharmacy
• Experience with the use of appropriate software packages including Excel and Word

Skills

• Good communication skills - both oral and written including good telephone manner
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to work under supervision, and independently as appropriate
• Customer care
• Accuracy and attention to detail

• Able to demonstrate good organisational and time management skills
• Manual dexterity – medication handling
• An ability to receive, interpret, analyse and deliver information

Qualifications

• Basic general education, GCSE grade D or above in English and Maths

• NVQ or equivalent level 2 pharmacy

If the contract type on the vacancy states 'Fixed Term' this would mean the vacancy is being advertised to address a temporary need for the duration stipulated on the advert, however, in the event that permanent funding is secured for the post the successful applicant will be confirmed in post on a permanent basis.

Internal applicants must ensure that prior to applying they have agreement from their current line manager that they can be released on a secondment basis.

Trust Welcome Day

Here at Tees, Esk and Wear Valley Foundation NHS Trust we want you to have a positive experience when you start your new role with us. To ensure you have great welcome, for all new starters joining the Trust, we offer two start dates per month on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of that Month.

For certain clinical roles, your Welcome Day could then be followed by up to 9 days face to face training. If this is applicable to you, further information will be provided ahead of your Welcome Day.

Right to Work in the UK

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Please note that not everyone needs a ‘Skilled Worker’ visa. If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead.

We are able to offer sponsorship for a Health and Care Worker or Skilled Worker visa, subject to candidate and position eligibility. Please review the job eligibility guidance for skilled workers here: Skilled Worker visa: Your job - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) and for the Health and Care Worker visa here: Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are in the UK already on a visa, please ensure you have no restrictions that would prevent you from taking this post.

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Newly Qualified Nurses

All band 5 nursing positions are only open to those candidates who already have their NMC registration in place and have successfully completed a preceptorship programme. Please note: Newly qualified applicants or those due to qualify will be recruited via a separate process, for more information about this process please contact: [email protected]

TEWV encourages and supports all staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the protection of staff, service users and visitors to the Trust from second hand smoke and currently operates a no smoking policy which ensures all buildings and grounds are smoke free.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from individuals who have experience of mental ill health or learning disabilities. Our service users and carers tell us our staff should be consistently concerned with maintaining and improving care with pride, empathy and compassion.

This job advert may close as soon as sufficient suitable applications have been received. If interested please apply for this post as soon as possible.

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Please note that if the post you are applying for requires a DBS check, you will be required to also subscribe to the DBS Update Service, if successful, and thereafter renew your subscription each year. The Trust will reimburse the subscription fee.

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