Pharmacy Stores Assistant

Job summary

Pharmacy Stores Assistant Band 2

How would you like to be part of a busy team within a local NHS Hospital Trust?

The Stores and Distribution team within Pharmacy provides the medicine supply service for three dispensaries, all wards and departments at Epsom and St Helier hospitals and a wide variety of local community clinics.

No previous hospital or pharmacy experience required just a willingness to take on a dynamic and rewarding role supplying medicines to fellow healthcare professionals for use within the Trust and local community

You must be able to demonstrate excellent communication and time management skills, basic IT skills and have a good attention to detail. Evidence of previous basic experience of stock control & maintenance, such as stock rotation, ordering and/or receiving stock should be included in your application.

Main duties of the job

The position is varied and will include receipt and correct storage of drugs, stock control, including stock rotation, stock checks and removal of expired stock. The supply of drugs including ward stock replenishment, inputting of orders onto computer systems and assembly of orders. And receiving and processing telephone calls.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication, and interpersonal skills with a good standard of education.

The Pharmacy Assistant role is based in the pharmacy stores area of the pharmacy department at St Helier Hospital but may also involve working at our other hospital in Epsom, Surrey.

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surreyand NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and issupported by over 500 volunteers.