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Dispensing Assistant

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Job summary

  • Are you a dispenser looking to progress within a forward-thinking practice

  • Do you have excellent customer care skills and enjoy working in a demanding environment

  • If so, we would like to hear from you

Main duties of the job

Dispensing

  • Dispensing acute and repeat prescriptions

  • Updating patients records where appropriate

  • Dispensing controlled drugs in line with current regulations

  • Checking colleagues dispensing

  • Ensuring the dispensary area remains clean and tidy

  • Maintaining the cold chain and reporting any concerns to management

Prescriptions

  • Handing out prescriptions and collecting charges where appropriate

  • Processing repeat requests as per surgery protocol

  • Sorting and endorsing prescriptions

  • Generating prescriptions when required

Stock Control

  • Ordering appropriate quantities of goods via the wholesalers' websites

  • Checking in goods as and when delivered

  • Returning incorrect goods to the wholesalers

  • Stocking shelves, fridges and other storage area using rotation method

  • Removing out of date stock from shelves

  • Disposal of returned medicine

Wholesale

  • Weekly participation in the ordering of items in accordance with our wholesale contract

  • Checking in wholesale goods and storing appropriately

  • Returning incorrect goods, noting missing items to the wholesalers

Other

  • Completing annual mandatory & selective training

  • Being up to date with the SOPs of the dispensary

  • Attending dispensary and practice meetings

  • Carrying out audits when required

About us

Aspiro healthcare is a dynamic and forward thinking Partnership based across Northamptonshire and Derbyshire serving a population of 55,000 patients across 8 sites.

We have a rare opportunity for a dispenser to join our team in Bozeat. We have 3 sites in Northamptonshire including Corby, Wollaston and Bozeat. All sites are training practices and the entire team shares the educational ethos whilst looking after our medical students, FY2 and GP registrars

In Northamptonshire we currently offer services to non-registered patients such as vasectomy, enhanced minor surgery, community wax clinic and provide medical support to two private mental health unit and Specialist Care Centre.

Details

Date posted

27 November 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A1633-24-0009

Job locations

Brookside Medical Centre

Bozeat

Wellingborough

NN29 7NJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

In addition to the main duties mentioned above

Confidentiality

  • In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information about their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

  • Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Health & Safety

To implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy. This will include (but will not be limited to):

  • Awareness of infection control policies within the workplace

  • Correct use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

  • Responsible for correct hand hygiene of self

  • Identifying risks and escalating issues where needed

  • Making effective use of training

  • Maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and safe way, free from hazards.

  • Waste management including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection

  • Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding

Equality and Diversity

  • Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures

  • Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

  • Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights

Personal/Professional Development

  • Participation in an annual appraisal

  • Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

  • Alert colleagues to issues of quality and risk

  • Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

  • Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Communication

  • Communicate effectively with other team members

  • Communicate effectively with patients and carers

  • Recognise the need for alternative methods of communication

Job description

Job responsibilities

In addition to the main duties mentioned above

Confidentiality

  • In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information about their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

  • Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Health & Safety

To implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management of their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy. This will include (but will not be limited to):

  • Awareness of infection control policies within the workplace

  • Correct use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

  • Responsible for correct hand hygiene of self

  • Identifying risks and escalating issues where needed

  • Making effective use of training

  • Maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and safe way, free from hazards.

  • Waste management including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection

  • Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding

Equality and Diversity

  • Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures

  • Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

  • Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights

Personal/Professional Development

  • Participation in an annual appraisal

  • Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

  • Alert colleagues to issues of quality and risk

  • Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

  • Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Communication

  • Communicate effectively with other team members

  • Communicate effectively with patients and carers

  • Recognise the need for alternative methods of communication

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ2 in dispensing
  • An ability to work alone and as part of a larger team
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent IT skills
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ2 in dispensing
  • An ability to work alone and as part of a larger team
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Excellent IT skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Aspiro Healthcare

Address

Brookside Medical Centre

Bozeat

Wellingborough

NN29 7NJ


Employer's website

https://www.woodsendmedicalcentre.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Aspiro Healthcare

Address

Brookside Medical Centre

Bozeat

Wellingborough

NN29 7NJ


Employer's website

https://www.woodsendmedicalcentre.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Dispensary Manager

Lucy Goult

l.goult@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

27 November 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A1633-24-0009

Job locations

Brookside Medical Centre

Bozeat

Wellingborough

NN29 7NJ


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