Trainee Pharmacy Assistant

Working towards delivering the technical aspects of the dispensary whilst ensuring the safe supply of medicines e.g. ordering medicines, labelling, dispensing, endorsing and collection of prescriptions.To learn and participate in day to day routine activities of the dispensary in line with current policies and procedures ensuring smooth workflow and creating a professional and organised environment.

This role will be solely based in the Outpatient Pharmacy for Simply Serve Ltd (SSL), a wholly owned subsidiary company of Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Learning how to tailor conversations with every customer to ensure they leave your pharmacy feeling informed and confident about their healthcare needs.

Completion of the Dispensing Accuracy Assessment after suitable training.Maintaining a low near miss error rate (under 1.5%)

Learning to manage stock closely ensuring good stock rotation, meeting ordering deadlines and liaising with the YDH procurement team.

Work towards receiving, dispensing and issuing out-patient prescriptions, identifying where an outpatient needs to pay, issuing instructions and paper slip to complete transaction

Learn to work accurately and efficiently to dispense blister pack prescriptions for the discharge of YDH patients to various care settings.

Learn to dispense, supply and organise outpatient and blister pack medications from orders sent from Somerset Partnership

Learn towards processing of private prescriptions and associated invoices and ensuring thorough documentation.

Prioritise workload appropriately to meet deadlines.

Raise issues and suggestions to the Superintendent Pharmacist

Ensure Pharmacy procedures are read and followed

Learn and maintain high standards and orderly methods of working

Answer the dispensary telephone and deal with ensuing queries

Sort emails from commercial units and place in correct trays ready for clinical checking

Move completed orders from the checking bench to the appropriate dispatch route

Yeovil Hospital is an ambitious and friendly Trust that is extremely proud to provide acute care for a population of more than 225,000 people in South Somerset, North and West Dorset and parts of Mendip. The hospital has 345 beds, a busy Emergency Department, a variety of outpatient and diagnostics services, and a private patients’ wing which offers a personal service in state-of-the-art clinical facilities, with all profits being invested back into NHS healthcare.

Yeovil Hospital’s iCARE model, which has established the principles of exemplary patient care, patient and employee experience, has attracted national interest and is embedded in everything we do, following our vision to care for our patients as if they are one of our family. The Trust’s shared vision has led to our staff rating Yeovil Hospital the best in England for employee health and wellbeing for the third year running in the annual NHS staff survey 2020

For a full list of duties and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please Note: Our Trust is undergoing a merger to enable Yeovil Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to become one combined organisation in April 2023. If you are successful in securing employment with the Trust we wanted to make you aware of this proposed merger. If this merger is confirmed, your employment will continue as part of the newly formed Trust.