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Pharmacy Dispensing Assistant

Employer
Pharmacy@UHB Ltd
Location
Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Heartlands Hospital - Birmingham.
Salary
£27,109.61
Closing date
1 Nov 2024
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Role
Dispensing Assistant
Sector
Hospital - NHS
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Job Description

Pharmacy@UHB Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary company of University Hospitals Birmingham, which was established in 2011. We provide Outpatient and Discharge services from Queen Elizabeth and Heartlands Hospitals and are currently recruiting Dispensers at both of our sites.

It is essential that applicants have achieved at least NVQ level 2 in pharmacy services, have relevant community or hospital pharmacy experience in a busy dispensary and will deliver unrivalled customer service. This is a unique opportunity to support the delivery of care at the hospital in our automated pharmacies.

Newly qualified pre-registration technicians are welcome to apply. We offer an excellent environment within which to develop your clinical skills for a move into a medicines optimisation role within primary or secondary care.

The advert is a Permanent 40 hours per week post

Main Duties and Tasks

  • To accurately dispense clinically checked prescriptions against the relevant prescription documentation, referring any areas of doubt promptly to the Responsible Pharmacist.
  • To contribute to responsibility for the ordering and management of all medicines within Pharmacy@UHB Ltd, working collaboratively together with the other dispensing assistants and under the guidance of the pharmacy manager.
  • To identify potential problems in the administration of medicines such as medicine interactions, newly prescribed drugs, physical factors that could affect patient compliance etc.
  • To contribute to the development and maintenance of a high quality and timely outpatient service for patients.
  • To contribute to the safe and accurate issue of completed dispensed prescriptions to patients.
  • To contribute to the maintenance of complete and accurate patient medication records for all supplies from the pharmacy.
  • To work collaboratively with other dispensing assistants to get the most from pharmacy automation.

 

Company

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is the leading university teaching hospital in the West Midlands. It is one of the most consistently high performing trusts in the NHS and has been rated "excellent" for financial management and "excellent" for quality of clinical and non-clinical services by the Healthcare Commission.

On 16 June 2010 UHB’s new £545 million Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham opened, with A&E and inpatients transferring from Selly Oak Hospital and other services moving from the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. More services will transfer during phased moves through to October 2011, with Selly Oak Hospital eventually closing and some services remaining at the old QE, adjacent to the new hospital.

The Trust employs around 6,900 staff and provides adult services to more than half a million patients every year, from a single outpatient appointment to a heart transplant. The Trust is a regional centre for cancer, trauma, burns and plastics, and has the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe.

Mental health services and certain women's health services are provided
at the nearby Mental Health and Birmingham Women's hospitals. These services are not based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

Company info
Location
Mindelsohn Way
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TH
United Kingdom

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