Job summary
Women's and Children's Pharmacy are delighted to offer this newly created post for a motivated and enthusiastic Pharmacy Assistant to join our team at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop knowledge and experience within a busy paediatric pharmacy service, supporting the safe and efficient supply of medicines and nutritional feeds to patients across the hospital. Working as part of the dispensary team, the post holder will be involved in stock management, procurement, medicines supply, dispensary operations and supporting ward services.

The successful candidate will receive comprehensive training and support from experienced Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists and will play an important role in ensuring high standards of patient care and medicines governance are maintained.

Main duties of the job

• Operational leadership of the dispensary
• Staff supervision and training
• Stock and inventory management
• Safe paediatric medicines supply
• Service improvement and quality assurance
• Accurate record keeping and governance

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day supervision, training and mentorship to SATOs and Student Pharmacy Technicians.
• Ensure staff operate in accordance with dispensary SOPs, guides and Trust policies.
• Supervise the receipt, storage and supply of medicines and feeds, ensuring activities are completed safely and accurately.
• Support the Lead and Senior Pharmacy Technicians in the management of dispensary operations and service delivery.
• Delegate workload appropriately and monitor completion of routine dispensary activities.
• Promote a positive team culture, maintaining high standards of performance and professionalism.
• Ensure staff adhere to Trust health and safety policies, including manual handling requirements.
• Supervise the review and release of paediatric cardiac arrest kits where required.

Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential

• Level 2 Standard in Maths (GCSE grade C or 4)
• Level 2 Standard in English (GCSE Grade C or 4)
• NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy services
• PWDS Final Accuracy Checking Programme (FACP) or willingness to work towards
• Willingness to undertake Pharmacy service improvements

Desirable

• Mentoring and supervision of junior staff

Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential

• Good oral and written communication skills
• Reliable team player and interpersonal skills
• Good time management
• Ability to work in a busy environment
• Computer literate
• Good attention to detail
• Evidence of prior working to written/verbal procedures

Desirable

• Experience of supervising others within a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge of Kidzmed and benefits to paediatric patients

Experience
Essential

• Experience of working in a hospital pharmacy
• Experience of stock control
• Experience of working in a team
• Experience of supervising and training others

Desirable

• Experience of working with Microsoft systems and/or in-house systems e.g. CMM, PTS

Personal Qualities
Essential

• Innovative
• Works well under pressure
• Attention to detail
• Team Player
• Flexible and adaptable approach
• Reliable and self-motivated
• Respectful and supportive

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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