Senior Pharmacy Medicines Management Assistant Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Walsall Council; Walsall; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job description

Hours are 37.5hrs per week to include late working on a rotation and to participate in Weekends and Bank Holidays on a rotation. Consideration will be given to candidates who wish to work on a part-time basis.

The Pharmacy Department at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is looking for Band 3 Senior Medicines Management Assistants who will work with the Clinical Pharmacists and Enhanced Role Pharmacy Technicians providing a ward-based Service.

The roles will involve developing a medicines management service to provide high quality, efficient person-centred care and drive improvements with Medicines Optimisation.

To undertake a range of duties providing services to in and out-patients and to wards and departments including dispensing, communication with patients and hospital staff.

The post holder will work under the supervision of Medicines Management Technicians and Pharmacists. Your main duties will be working on wards carrying out near bedside dispensing, patient interview and counselling for discharge. In addition, the ward-based teams are heavily involved in the governance of medicines through a regular cycle of audits.

This is an exciting time to join our friendly Pharmacy Team at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust. With the current and future landscape for pharmacy professionals, we have aligned our clinical pharmacy strategy to develop a pharmacy team that can function and excel in balancing patient care and service demand with their own professional development.

We are very supportive of pharmacy professionals putting forward their own ideas for service improvements and are committed to developing a strong Quality Improvement ethos.

WALSALL HEALTHCARE TRUST IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER AND ACTIVELY DISCOURAGES SMOKING AT WORK.

We pride ourselves on our trust values which are:

1. RESPECT
2. COMPASSION
3. TEAMWORK
4. PROFESSIONALISM

We are recommended by colleagues as a place to work which is supported by the Trust's values to work as part of a team, being respectful, compassionate and professional. We are committed to investing in our workforce.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall serving a population of 286,700, providing inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general services under one roof. The Trust has a state-of-the-art Critical Care unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, Integrated Assessment Unit facilities and a brand new Accident and Emergency Department which was opened in 2023.

We would particularly welcome applications from people from a BME background and people with a disability as these groups are currently underrepresented at senior level. We value diversity within our Trust and are working to achieve equality in our recruitment.

We support flexible working for all employees and prospective applicants.

You must have good organisational, communication and interpersonal skills and be able to show you are self-motivated and flexible in your approach to your work to meet the requirements for our developing service.

You are expected to work within key performance indicators as part of the service provision and show that you can work on your own initiative with Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, Nursing staff, Medical staff and other healthcare professionals in line with the Trust values.

To support both our ward-based services and dispensary we use automation through our ROWA robot and automated storage cabinets at ward level. The Pharmacy utilises aspects of our EMIS/Ascribe system to automate ordering and checking wherever possible.

To support your development, local training will be provided on medicines management to the successful candidates and your development needs will be identified through an annual individual performance development review.

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Mar 2025.