The Pharmacy Department is a forward thinking and progressive department seeking to expand our current team as we develop a patient focused, modern hospital pharmacy service to the Trust. We have an active training programme and a proven track record in staff development.
In this exciting new post, we are looking to recruit a self- motivated and enthusiastic pharmacy professional who has great initiative, flair and is committed to excellence. The successful applicant will need to be committed to self- development, have strong attention to detail with excellent distribution and organisational skills who is able to work to tight timescales and lead a small team. Your support is vital to the continuing expansions of our patient focused pharmacy services.
The work is varied and will include:
• Deputising for the Pharmacy Distribution Manager to cover in their absence.
• Work with pharmacists to optimise ward stock lists and identify opportunities to reduce wastage and generate savings.
• Liaise with the purchasing team to source alternate suppliers.
• Regularly review stock levels using ADC reporting to determine which levels require modification.
• To participate in the distribution service for stock drugs and vaccines to wards and departments, including outside units.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
DIMENSIONS OF JOB:
Deputises for the Distribution Manager and manages stock shortages ensuring a supply is maintained or investigated in liaison with ward pharmacists, pharmacy procurement, pharmacy IT data analysts and senior managers.
PURPOSE OF JOB:
To deputise for the Pharmacy Distribution Manager and provide day to day leadership for the operation of the distribution of medicines to wards and departments.
To manage changes to ward stock lists, including Omnicell and Epic, to ensure stock supply is maintained during shortages/changes in pack sizes/changes to stock lists and to communicate effectively to pharmacy staff on any issues that arise in respect to ward to-follows and the resolution of stock shortages, including discrepancies or anomalies on the pharmacy computer system.
This advert closes on Tuesday 12 Dec 2023
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