Trainee Pharmacy Assistant

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity or an enthusiastic, motivated and ambitious Trainee Pharmacy Assistant to join our busy team at Barts Health NHS Trust (Royal London Hospital). The post holder must be keen to learn and develop with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Main duties of the job

Certificate in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Support staff (Apprenticeship) by the end of the 15-month programme. The Level 2 qualifications are run by allocated provider - Capital City College (WKC)You must be a team player, demonstrate reliability and be able to communicate well. You must also have a keen interest in developing a career in hospital pharmacy.Duties/Areas of this post include:o Dispensaryo Stores and Distributiono Medicines Managemento Technical services

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

We reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised closing date, oncea sufficient number ofapplications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful

Once qualified there will opportunities to work towards becoming a Senior Pharmacy Assistant or go on to become a Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician (ensuring that the relevant criteria are met).If you are interested in working at one of the largest Trusts in Europe, dedicated to providing outstanding patient care and would like any further details, please contact:Syeda RahmanLead Pharmacy Technician for Education, Training and Development (RLH)[email protected]

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 documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a team
• Experience of working in customer care environment

Desirable

• Understanding of relevant legislation
• Experience of working in a hospital environment

Skills

Essential

• IT skills
• Able to plan own work
• Able to work alone or as part of a team with different grades of staff.
• Able to work calmly under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Able to follow policies and procedures.
• Numeracy skills - Able to perform simple calculations.
• Time management skills
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.

Desirable

• Able to use Excel and Word proficiently
• Manual handling skills.

Knowledge

Essential

• Understand customer care issues.

Desirable

• Understand issues involved in stock control
• Interested in and have knowledge of the use of drugs.
• Understand the importance of quality issues.
• Dispensing and interpreting prescriptions

Qualifications

Desirable

• GCSE grades A/C or 4-9
• English Language
• Maths
• Double Science