We are looking for a reliable and conscientious person, with an aptitude for thoroughness and accuracy, to fill the highly valued role of a Pharmacy Assistant – Homecare on an 18 month fixed term contract.
The successful candidate will be a member of a friendly and supportive pharmacy team and will be based at the pharmacy department in Crawley Hospital.

Receiving prescriptions and checking they are valid
Processing prescriptions and sending to homecare companies
processing invoices for homecare deliveries
Maintaining good record keeping of prescriptions and invoices
Communicate with the Homecare team and companies around discrepancies.
For full time applicants there may be additional medicines management responsibilities.
Please see full job description for more detail.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values — Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence —guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Medicines Management

• Production of orders to suppliers and processing the orders.
• Check and process delivery notes and invoices, ensuring they reflect orders received.
• Problem solve on ordering and invoice issues, in liaison with the Computer and Procurement Pharmacy Technician.
• Receiving the delivery to the pharmacy dispensary, unpacking and recording delivery.

Pharmacy Dispensary / Ward Duties

• Undertake stock top up of medicines on wards and departments.
• Answer incoming phone calls in a polite manner, referring on as appropriate and taking accurate messages if necessary.
• Select medicines according to ward requisitions / clinic orders according to local procedure.
• Select and label medicines according to the local procedure under supervision in preparation for checking. This will require:
• Selection to a high specification of accuracy.
• Complex manipulation of dispensing into multi-dose compartment compliance aids.
• Maintain high quality of data input of into the pharmacy dispensary computer system.

Please see the person specification and job description for further information