Are you interested in making a difference to patients?
Do you want to support patients without having to carry out personal care?
Our Pharmacy Homecare Team are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our team. The department supports patients receiving medicine via homecare services across the Trust with patients living countrywide.
Experience is not necessary but a keenness to learn new skills is essential. We will ensure you have all the appropriate training to ensure your success in this role.
This role offers the opportunity to upskill and progression to Band 3 upon meeting specified criteria. We will consider entry directly at Band 3 for applicants with relevant experience who already meet this criteria.
This is a varied role in which no two days will be the same. If you want to work in a specialised team and be a valued team member then this is the role for you.
This is predominately office-based role, but flexible working will be considered.
You will be key to processing all aspects of work related to pharmacy homecare including preparing prescriptions for transmission to homecare companies and the preparing of purchase orders prior to invoicing of medicines for our homecare patients.
You will be required to use the CMM (WellSky) pharmacy stock control system (full training will be provided) to complete invoicing and publish reports when required. You will also be using the pharmacy homecare database and spreadsheets.
As part of the pharmacy homecare team will be working alongside colleagues from the pharmacy procurement department and be trained in pharmacy procurement invoicing and any other departmental administrative duties required to be carried out.
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
GCSE in mathematics and English or equivalent
Basic keyboard skills
Experience with Microsoft office
Enthusiastic and demonstrates aptitude for team working
Able to work calmly and efficiently under pressure
Demonstrates attention to detail and initiative in work
Numerate and literate with good communication and organisational skills
Ability to organise own time and prioritise
Demonstrate an ongoing commitment to learning and developing own role
Prior experience of an office / ledger control environment
Advanced keyboard skills
Knowledge of Pharmaceutical/medical terms
As well as being able to demonstrate examples of how they work in a way that is consistent with our values of compassion, excellence and collaboration the successful candidate will be able to clearly demonstrate a commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion.
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.
