Medicines Management Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust; London Borough of Harrow; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000

Job description

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Medicines Management Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer

Band 3

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Late duties and weekend) Job ref 337-NP-8713MF

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic Medicines Management Assistant Technical Officer to work in our busy Pharmacy department on the Northwick Park Hospital site. As part of this ward-based role, you will be working alongside our clinical pharmacists and medicine management pharmacy technicians to ensure patients' timely access to medicines throughout their admission and discharge. This rewarding role will provide you an opportunity to interact with patients, nurses and doctors as well as external healthcare professionals to ensure that the best standard of pharmaceutical care is available to patients in our hospital.

Main duties of the job

You will need to be self-motivated with good communication and interpersonal skills. You will have a friendly and approachable personality, be willing to work as part of a team and committed to providing the best possible service for patients.

The department actively promotes development, education and training. To apply you will need to have good GCSE's or equivalent and good IT skills.

Person specification

Qualifications

• NVQ level 2 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent
• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent - Grade A-C or 9-5 in both Mathematics and English
• Pharmacy Experience
• Experience of working in hospital
• Experience of working with Omnicell/JAC (CMM)/ Cerner
• MOP course for pharmacy assistants

Skills

• Good communication skills and team player

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We promote the wellbeing and safety of all our patients and carers by acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately, according to the standards determined by our policy and procedures. All posts working with vulnerable groups will be subject to an enhanced criminal records check upon appointment and staff will need to give their consent for the Trust to receive regular updates on their criminal records status throughout their employment.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Our employment checking processes require that all shortlisted applicants provide the contact details of their current HR Department. If shortlisted you will be sent an email reminder to present the contact details of your HR Department at the interview.

Please note the Trust uses identity checking software for verifying the authenticity of identity documents provided by candidates.

As part of our commitment to the Equality and Diversity at LNWUH, we are encouraging applications from BME (Black, Minority Ethnic) candidates as we seek to ensure our workforce structures are representative of the diversity of the communities we serve.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Mahbub Baksh Job title Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0208 8693442