Pharmacy Dispensary Assistant inSlough inSlough PUBLISHED 25 AUG 2024

The post holder supports the Lead Pharmacy Technician in the management of the dispensary assistants.
Job Overview


We are looking for committed and motivated people with excellent organisational skills to support our pharmacy team. This will include the supervision and training or dispensary assistants and acting as a role model for pharmacy assistants.

You must possess good communication skills and be able to work to tight deadlines in this busy and challenging environment. Computer literacy and attention to detail is also important.


Previous Experience Of Labelling And Dispensing Medication Is Essential.


Main duties of the job

The post holder supports the Lead Pharmacy Technician in the management of the dispensary assistants. This will include:

  • Management of sickness, absence and poor/ under-performing of assistants
  • Supervision and training of pharmacy assistants in reception, receipt and storage of stock, labelling and dispensing of medication
  • Supervision and delegation of assistants and their duties
  • Review and updating relevant procedures

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties


Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities


Please read the Job Description and Person spec before apply for this post , if you have any queries please contact Harjit Bansal on

Person specification


Qualifications


Essential criteria

  • NVQ level 2
  • GCSE Maths & English

Desirable criteria

  • Customer care training

Competencies

Essential criteria

  • Attention to detail
  • Labelling and dispensing medication

Desirable criteria

  • Experience of using EPR


Experience


Essential criteria

  • Pharmacy Experience
  • Good knowledge of stock control

Desirable criteria

  • Knowledge of pharmaceuticals

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .

Apply online now
Job Overview

We are looking for committed and motivated people with excellent organisational skills to support our pharmacy team. This will include the supervision and training or dispensary assistants and acting as a role model for pharmacy assistants.

You must possess good communication skills and be able to work to tight deadlines in this busy and challenging environment. Computer literacy and attention to detail is also important.

Previous Experience Of Labelling And Dispensing Medication Is Essential.

Main duties of the job

The post holder supports the Lead Pharmacy Technician in the management of the dispensary assistants. This will include:

  • Management of sickness, absence and poor/ under-performing of assistants
  • Supervision and training of pharmacy assistants in reception, receipt and storage of stock, labelling and dispensing of medication
  • Supervision and delegation of assistants and their duties
  • Review and updating relevant procedures

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please read the Job Description and Person spec before apply for this post , if you have any queries please contact Harjit Bansal on

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • NVQ level 2
  • GCSE Maths & English

Desirable criteria

  • Customer care training

Competencies

Essential criteria

  • Attention to detail
  • Labelling and dispensing medication

Desirable criteria

  • Experience of using EPR


Experience

Essential criteria

  • Pharmacy Experience
  • Good knowledge of stock control

Desirable criteria

  • Knowledge of pharmaceuticals

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment .

Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .

Apply online now


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