Pharmacy ATO - HCD & Homecare Medicines

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.
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.
For further information regarding this role please contact Marcell Fisher or Clive Haslam on .

Main duties of the job
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.
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.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation 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.

NHS AfC: Band 3
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As "People" is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department., 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, Please refer to the job description for further details on what this role has to offer.
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.