Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
- We are looking for an enthusiastic Dispensing Assistant who has gained, or has almost completed, their Level 2 Apprenticeship in Pharmacy Services, to join our friendly team.
- This is a varied and interesting position which will be based in our busy dispensary at Kingston Hospital. Experience will be gained in different aspects of hospital pharmacy and you will be given the opportunity to learn about Dispensing, Chemotherapy and Clinical Trials.
- You must have customer service experience, be a good communicator on both a written and verbal basis and show a willingness to learn.
- We offer the opportunity to enhance existing skills and develop new ones.
- We are moving towards a 7-day working week service, including weekends, Bank Holidays and late duty and you would be expected to participate in this according to rotas.
We welcome community based dispensing assistants to apply for this position.
- For further information please contact Rudyard Lewis, Chief Technician Dispensary Manager [email protected]
- To dispense clinically screened prescriptions including labelling, preparation, assembly and dispensing accurately in a timely manner.
- To dispense controlled drugs (CDs) for patient discharges and ward stock, and to manage stock levels.
- To dispense chemotherapy for patients on our haematology day unit.
- To assist with returns and destructions of medications from wards.
- To develop effective communication between the staff in the pharmacy and on wards and departments.
- To ensure that accurate records are maintained either electronically or in paper copy.
- To ensure that sundry materials are available and ordered when necessary.
- To file prescriptions and recover prescriptions when required, including end of day and end of month filing.
- To correctly use the Prescription Tracking System (PTS) and monitor it throughout the day.
- To act as the co-ordinator to manage telephones and e-mails and ensure deadlines are met.
- To regularly complete stock and expiry date checks in the dispensary.
The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other. To support this, our four values are that we are all:
Compassionate- we treat everyone with kindness, understanding and empathy
Inclusive- We are respectful, fair and open, embracing everyone’s unique contribution
Collaborative- We work together across our teams and with our partners and are helpful, positive and supportive.
Inspiring- We strive for the best for patients, staff and partners and are always learning and improving.
Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'.
Your recruitment team
The NHS South West London Recruitment Hub is your dedicated recruitment team, here to support you at every stage of the process. If you have a query, please contact us:
E: [email protected]
Your application
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References
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Closing date
To help us manage recruitment efficiently, some vacancies may close early once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting
If you are successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted by email or SMS from the South West London Recruitment Hub. Please check your registered TRAC email regularly.
Application feedback
If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Safeguarding and DBS Checks
We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. For roles with direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All staff are expected to understand and uphold their safeguarding responsibilities as part of their role.
