Senior Pharmacy Assistant

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Would you like a new challenge? Would you like to make a real difference to patients' treatment? As a senior ward based pharmacy assistant, you will be responsible for supporting the Acute Medicine Admissions Wards , Accident & Emergency Department, Urgent Care Centre and nursing teams in ensuring that medicines are safely stored and readily available to the wards, clinics and associated areas. You will assist in the provision of a high quality patient focused medicines management and dispensary service to patients at the Trust.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust aims to be a hospital of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to improve all aspects of the patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.

There are many reasons to work at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country and in partnership with Imperial College London is one of the UK's first academic health science centres (AHSCs). The creation of the AHSC is a major advance for patient care, clinical teaching and scientific invention and innovation.

The Trust consists of Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea, St Mary's and Western Eye Hospitals.

Main duties of the job

• To support the ward managers in maintaining safe storage and temperature control of medications in all areas of the ward(s).
• To assist in the provision of a high quality 'topping up' and 'self-ordering' distribution service of pharmaceutical supplies to wards, clinics and associated areas.
• To assist in the provision of a high quality pharmacy stores service to the wards, clinics and associated areas.
• To ensure that stock levels for 'topped up' areas are appropriate and that the stock is in date and appropriately rotated.
• To assist in the provision of a high quality patient focused medicines management and dispensary service to patients at the Trust
• In association with the senior technician, ward/department manager and specialist pharmacists to ensure that stock lists are updated and adequately reflect the needs of the area.
• To undertake day-to-day housekeeping tasks and other basic duties as per section rota's.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• General Secondary Education including literacy to level 2 (equivalent to A-C or grade 4 GCSE) and numeracy to level 1(equivalent to D-E grade GCSE)

Desirable criteria

• Numeracy Level 2
• Pharmacy Service Skills NVQ Level 2 (QCF) or equivalent
• Medicines Optimisation Programme (POD Assessment & Transcribing module) (or equivalent)

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Good ability to organise and prioritise work
• Able to use own initiative
• Analytical ability for problem solving
• Good ability to use computer systems including excel and word
• Able to work under pressure
• Able to work both alone and in a team
• Good personal organisation and time management skills
• Ability to deal with non-routine tasks
• Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical
• Governance and quality agenda
• Able to recognise the limits of own competence and refer or seek advice from others.
• Demonstrated good verbal and written English communication skills

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working with computers.
• Experience of working in a hospital or customer orientated environment

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in a pharmacy environment.

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• JD (PDF, 810.5KB)
• Functional requirement form (PDF, 272.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)