Senior Pharmacy Assistant (High Cost Drug and Medication Efficiency)

at  Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

We have an exciting opportunity to join our expanding Aseptic Oncology Pharmacy Team
You will be part of a close, dedicated team working with Pharmacy and Nursing Staff in an essential role to help minimise waste and improve medicines efficacy with our high cost cancer drugs.
Your role within the team will be to support the pharmacy team in correctly booking out and charging for high cost drugs, liaising with pharmacy and nursing staff to process and return delayed drugs and ensuring they are re-used in a safe and cost-effective way, and assist in stock control.
You will be supported in all training by our expert pharmacy team based at Tunbridge Wells Hospital
Computer literacy would be an advantage, especially in MS office applications. You will be trained to use our Pharmacy computer system and other databases that we use.
This role requires all team members to be accurate, numerate, highly organised, and possess good communication skills. Ideally you should already have some pharmacy experience, but this is not essential. You should and enjoy working in a team, but must also be capable of working independently.
This is a new role with scope for development in an expanding and exciting area of Pharmacy
1. Assist in the booking out and costing of IV SACT to ensure correct and timely charging of treatment provided at MTW NHS Trust, in liaison with the Oncology Pharmacy High Cost Drugs Team.
2. Processing any delayed or cancelled IV SACT treatment and ensuring it is re-used safely, appropriately and cost effectively.
3. Liaise daily with the day wards and Maidstone Oncology Pharmacy Team to ensure prompt return of unused IV SACT treatment and processing the treatments ensuring it is re-used appropriately.
4. Assist in managing the ‘spare’ and ‘allocated’ IV SACT treatments and to ensure drugs are allocated correctly to patients and re-allocated to prevent wastage.
5. Liaise with the Pharmacy Technical Team to ensure spares and allocated IV SACT treatments are re-used appropriately, at time of ordering outsourced products
MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Job Summary: To work with the technical services team, Pharmacists, Aseptic Unit Staff and Nursing Staff to ensure the safe and cost-effective use of intravenous systemic anti-cancer cancer treatments (IV SACT) in the MTW NHS Trust. To assist in managing and reducing wastage of High Cost Intravenous Cancer treatments.

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