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Pharmacy Assistant

New Victoria Hospital
Full-time
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We are looking for a Pharmacy Assistant to join our Pharmacy team.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

  • To provide a comprehensive pharmaceutical service to New Victoria Hospital with particular emphasis on the technical aspects of dispensing, ordering, issuing and stock control of medicines.
  • The way in which this role supports the registered pharmacy professionals includes reception duties in the dispensary and clerical duties in any area of medicines management; assembly of prescribed items (including packing medicines, generation of labels and interactions with patients); ordering, receiving and storing of pharmaceutical stock to meet demand; and packing and supply of pharmaceutical stock to wards and departments through top-up process.
  • Maintains all relevant records for processes

Requirements for the Role

  • Good General Education to include good grades in Maths, Science and English
  • Knowledge of handling hazardous materials
  • Experience of working in a patient facing environment
  • Experience from situations where stock is managed
  • Experience from situations requiring accurate data entry
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Good IT literacy including standard keyboard skills for stock control, dispensing and input of data

Status

Permanent

Hours

37.5 hours per week

Pay Rate

Competitive

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Should you wish to apply for the position, please send your CV to Human Resources at recruitment@newvictoria.co.uk