Pharmacy Purchasing and Stores Assistant

Position Overview

The Pharmacy Department is looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and hardworking individual to join our purchasing team as a Pharmacy Purchasing and Stores Assistant working in the pharmacy store and with the pharmacy robot to ensure urgent medicines are received into the Trust and that fluids and feeds are stored and supplied according to the high standards set out by our wholesale dealer's licence.

You will also cover the priority porter role on a planned basis working on a shift rota.

• Full time post working an average of 37.5 hours per week including weekends and late evenings on a rota.
• To work as a member of the procurement team supporting the procurement officer in the purchase of medicine supplies for the Trust.
• To utilise the computerised pharmacy stock control system for the ordering and receipt of medicine.
• To perform routine operations of the robot.
• To work as member of the pharmacy stores team to ensure pharmacy goods are received into the Trust and that fluids and feeds are provided to clinical areas.
• Work under our wholesale distributors authorisation providing fluid and feeds to our external customers.
• Ensure the pharmacy store is maintained to a high standard.

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million.

We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School. The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles. Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally.

Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation.