Pharmacy ATO - HCD & Homecare Medicines

The High-Cost Drugs and Homecare Team at SWBH Pharmacy are seeking a qualified NVQ2 Pharmacy Dispensing Assistant to join our friendly team. This is in readiness for our early 2025 move to our new home at the Sheldon Block Pharmacy, located at what will be our City Health Campus, which will also serve the Birmingham Treatment Centre and The Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre.

Our brand new Midland Metropolitan Hospital is now open so there will be opportunity to gain experience working in their brand new dispensary too.

Experience of working with High-Cost Drugs or Homecare medicines is desirable but not essential as full training will be given in all aspects of our service.

This is no ordinary Dispenser's post as many tasks require you to be office based and working with various spreadsheets and databases. You will also work closely with our clerical assistants, to resolve any queries they may have in relation to the payment of invoices or prescription requests., You will assist in the provision of a High-Cost Drugs and Homecare service to all patients of our Trust to include, dispensing high-cost drugs, carrying out funding checks via the Blueteq Hi-Cost Database, raising homecare requests to generate purchase orders for our homecare patients, carrying out stock checks, updating and maintaining relevant spreadsheets and databases used by the team and helping to resolve queries, relating to invoicing or prescription tracking.

If you're up for a change as well as a new challenge, and you posses an NVQ2 Dispenser qualification or equivalent then this post may be just what you're looking for.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
1. Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live

There will be a requirement to work across all of our site dispensaries including the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital as part of a rostered 7-day working pattern.