Senior Pharmacy Services Assistant; XR

Areyou passionate about providing an efficient medicines supply service to inpatients in our hospital?

Ourbusy, friendly dispensary team at St James hospital work hard in a fastpaced but supportive environment to provide an excellent medicines supply service. You will be working with pharmacists, technicians, and our wardteams dispensing medicines to all our patients on the wards.

Therole requires an NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services and previous pharmacy experience.

Thisrole is based in Inpatient Pharmacy at St James hospital and is full timehours, (37.5 hours) Monday to Friday 9am - 5.30pm. All staff contributes to an 8pm evening shift every 5 weeks and a Saturday or Sunday on a 1 in 4 rota.

The role is varied and consists of all aspects of labelling and dispensing medicines, including controlled drugs, discharge prescriptions, and inpatient orders.

There will also be some reception work, answering the phone, dealing with reception and admin type tasks.

Some stock maintenance and ordering of medicines will also be included in this role.

Leedsis a wonderful city to work in and LTHT is an organisation that puts its patients first and highly values and supports its staff,

Pharmacy is a forward thinking department that values the contribution of all our staff. There are plenty of opportunities to progress within different areasof our pharmacy services should you wish to.

The dispensary team is a friendly and extremely supportive team working as partof the larger Medicines Management & Pharmacy Services Team.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Performa variety of pharmacy support duties, some of which may be patient facing.

These include stock management, dispensing and/or preparation of medicines ina designated area of MMPS which may include dispensary, aseptic facilities,warehouse and dispensary support rooms at ward level. Day to day supervision of Pharmacy Services Assistants and Pharmacy Porters to ensure service delivery in relevant area of MMPS

Theremay also be distribution duties including the movement of goods and arequirement for general housekeeping duties.

The post holder will not have anyline management responsibilities. Theywill provide induction and training for Pharmacy Services Assistants and Pharmacy Porters and other staff as required.

Thepost holder will be required to work evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays ona rostered basis.

Thepost holder will be required to travel to other sites for briefing meetings,training sessions and to support service provision.

Level 2 Apprenticeship /Pharmacy Services Assistant or NVQ level 2 in Pharmacy Services or Pharmacy Manufacturing Course.

Experience of working in acommunity or hospital pharmacy.

Knowledge of procedures of own working area following on the job training

Knowledge of good customer care.

Experience of stock control systems

Must have excellent verbal communication skills.

Ability to work accurately under pressure and follow standard operating procedures.

Good literacy and numeracy skills

Ability to interpret written instructions.

Ability to supervise and give instruction to Pharmacy Services Assistants and Porters and other staff as required

THELEEDS WAY VALUES

Ourvalues are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see thisas a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by ourstaff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Accountable

Empowered

Allour actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

• English and maths GCSEs
• Level 2 NVQ in Pharmacy Services

• Previous hospital or community pharmacy experience
• Labelling and dispensing experience
• Experience in stock control

• Excellent communication and team work skills
• Hardworking, reliable and flexible to change

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.