Band 3 Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Job Birmingham area,England UK,Healthcare

Band 3 Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, ENG, GB. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people’s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Main Duties

To participate in the daily ward stock supply service, including controlled drugs, to wards and departments as necessary establishing and maintaining a communication link between Pharmacy and the wards/units served.
To receive deliveries, check stock and receipt.
To make-up supply orders for the community-based clinics.
To accurately supply controlled drugs on request from clinical areas and for discharge / outpatient prescriptions, on a daily basis in accordance with departmental procedures and in compliance with related legislation regarding record keeping, storage and transportation of controlled drugs.
To maintain and replenish the out of hours emergency supplies by issuing medicines to the appropriate wards.
Carrying out daily stock checks to identify items taken, recording and monitoring the refrigerator temperatures to ensure storage conditions are within the defined parameters.
Replace short dated medicines where appropriate to minimise wastage.
To maintain and replenish the emergency drugs on wards and keeping a record of when emergency drugs are reaching expiry for replacement.
To store and distribute medicines in accordance with manufacturers and local guidelines ensuring;
Good stock rotation Daily maintenance and monitoring of appropriate storage environment e.g. fridge, room temperatures Restricting the availability of defined medicines e.g. controlled drugs, high cost drugs
To assess surplus medicines returned from clinical areas on a daily basis against a defined criteria and where suitable return into stock for re-use.
To dispose of waste products according to the Trust waste policy including appropriate handling of corrosive materials, cytotoxics and flammable substances.
To participate in the programme to regularly review ward and departmental stock lists in order to reduce waste and ensure appropriate supply of medicines. This involves evaluating the stock used over a set period of time and calculating the stock levels accordingly. This process is ongoing.
To issue and supply stock items daily to appropriate areas ensuring stock rotation, suitability for use, packaging and labelling are correct.
To identify stock shortages and place orders communicating with the Acute Unit staff regarding urgency and availability.
To interpret and dispense prescriptions on a patient specific basis for discharge, outpatients and in patients under the supervision of the pharmacist/checking-technician . Ensuring the work is carried out to a high degree of…