Pharmacy Senior Medicine Management Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Pharmacy Team based at Hartington Unit, visiting our newly anticipated mental health inpatient wards and Community Mental Health Teams.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Senior Medicines Management Assistant to participate in the pharmacy department's safe, effective, and responsive pharmaceutical supply services to Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

We are currently in the process of preparing to move over to our exciting new purpose built mental health facility. Three wards will be based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and one Older Adult Ward based at Walton Hospital.

All duties will be carried out under the supervision of Registered Medicine Management Technicians, but you will be expected to work without close supervision following Standard Operating Procedures to ensure safe supply of medicine standards are met.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the role

• Maintain the supply of medicines to wards and community mental health teams to ensure a high level of patient care is maintained and pharmacy standards are adhered to.
• Work with community mental health teams to ensure Polarspeed prescriptions are completed prior to their expiry date.
• Take responsibility for completion of pharmacy governance audits, ensuring they're carried out 3 monthly as per pharmacy schedule.
• Support ward/community teams with maintenance and organisation of pharmacy record keeping and resources, such as delivery notes, information booklets, pharmacy ward memo's and information posters.
• Answer queries on the supply and availability of medicines.
• Provide support to dispensary and distribution at Kingsway Hospital, Derby.
• Independently travel between sites. Travel costs will be reimbursed.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of making a positive difference in people's lives.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD overall, commenting on how our colleagues treated patients with compassion and kindness and felt positive and proud about working for the trust.

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Access to Vivup
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBTI+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

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Stock top up and medicine management audits

Ensure medicine cupboards and clinic areas are kept tidy.

Inpatient repeat top up as per standard operating procedure to designated wards.

Check and audit out of hours crisis cupboards.

Unpack stock medicines on receipt from pharmacy into ward and team stock cupboards ensuring standard operating procedures and trust medicine code is followed and accurate completion of all documentation for traceability.

Work closely with Chesterfield Royal Hospital in line with our Service Level Agreement to support medication supplies to wards.

You will answer queries on the supply of stock related medicines.

Sort and organise return of medicines back to pharmacy as per department procedure.

Participate in regular dispensing sessions at Kingsway Pharmacy which will include the dispensing of inpatient, leave, discharge and outpatient medicines including compliance aids and Controlled drugs,

Carry out daily and monthly CD stock audits, issue of prescriptions and housekeeping tasks. You will also work within the stores, distribution and procurement team assembling and checking stock medicines, preparing medicines for distribution, stock take, ordering and receipt of medicines when required.

Completed trust mandatory and in-house training

Refer to job description for full role requirements

You must hold a GPhC approved level 2 Pharmacy Support worker qualification and GCSEs or equivalent in English , Maths and dual award GCSE or equivalent in science.

You must have significant experience of working in a pharmacy environment and be able to mentor and train junior healthcare professionals.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in Pharmacy Services
• GCSE English, Maths and Double Science C or above

Experience

• Significant experience/knowledge of working within a pharmacy
• Experience of organising the pharmacy day to day workload within the team
• Experience of stock top up/audits
• Experience of using other computer applications (e.g. excel, dispensing program, Systm1 )

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

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