Job summary
- Main area
- Mental Health
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 354-CO-21418
- Employer
- Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mill View Hospital
- Town
- Hove
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacy Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 3
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Are you looking for an career in mental health services or the NHS? If so, you could be well suited to this role.
We are looking to recruit a Pharmacy Assistant to be part of the Trust Medicines Management Team working with our Inpatient Pharmacy Team in Brighton & Hove. You will be responsible for the provision of pharmaceutical duties and supporting Pharmacists and Medicines Management technicians at ward level.
This post is subject to a standard check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.
Main duties of the job
This post presents an opportunity for a Pharmacy Assistant motivated by the desire to improve patient care, by supporting the Inpatient Pharmacy Team in Brighton & Hove. You will be working with Specialist Pharmacists and Technicians to provide this service.
You will be a point of contact for healthcare professionals and pharmacy staff for stock issues including drug chart transcription and medicines transfers between different care settings.
You will assist in the provision of a safe, efficient and effective pharmaceutical services to all units and wards of the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust within the locality.
This specific post is responsible for the facilitation, development and provision of pharmacy (supply) services to the mental health units and wards of this Trust within the locality.
You will be actively involved with medicines management duties, ordering stock and all consumable supplies and assisting the Senior Pharmacy Technician with technical developments for this service.
You will be actively involved in checking of Patient Own Drugs (PODs) to ensure their safe, suitability and accuracy for patient use.
The role requires an organised, flexible individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
The team provides a well-structured support system, access to training, with opportunity for development.
Working for our organisation
We are a friendly and committed pharmacy team, who are keen to support the wellbeing of our patients and each other.
Sussex Partnership is one of the largest mental health trust in the UK. The physical health of our mental health patients is important to us and with the live expectancy of patients with serious mental health dying 15 to 20 years earlier, the trust is committed to reducing this risk and pharmacy play a key role in this.
About us
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
You can expect:
- Access to full psychological support, the wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes.
- Flexible working opportunities
- Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
- A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + bank holidays)
- Excellent NHS Pension Scheme
We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see detailed job description and person specification for further information regarding this role. If you have any queries please feel free to contact us to discuss further. We would love to speak with you to see if you are a good fit for this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ level 2, Pharmacy Services. Including three core units.
- Minimum 3 GCSEs A*-C grade, including Maths
- Applicants must be able to demonstrate accuracy, numeracy, literacy and attention to detail.
Desirable criteria
- Unit 6: Assist in the issuing of pharmaceutical stock
- Unit 13: Receive pharmaceutical stock
- Unit 14: Maintain pharmaceutical stock
- Unit 16: Order routine pharmaceutical stock
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louisa Marchant-Rutherford
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist Inpatient
- Email address
- [email protected]
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