# Senior Pharmacy Assistant, Medicines Management

**Company**: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
**Location**: Carshalton
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £30,630 to £32,346 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are currently seeking an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our Medicines Management Assistant (MMA) team. Our MMA team is required to support the ward-based clinical pharmacy services at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust (ESTH).

The role involves providing a full ward-based service to ensure the safe, timely, and financially sound provision of pharmaceutical items. You will be a key member of the pharmacy clinical team, working together to provide excellent patient-focused care.

Key activities include:

- Supporting the transfer of patients' own and dispensed one-stop medication between wards

- Putting stock items away and rotating stock to minimise wastage

- Identifying slow-moving stock and transferring it to alternative locations in the trust to minimise wastage

- Identifying medicines supplied for patients that have been transferred and delivering them to the patient's current location to reduce the requirement for re-dispensing

- Checking and clearing medicine trollies at least once a week

- Reducing the number of expired medicines and liquid medicines not labelled with 'opened on'/expiry date

- Supporting ward staff in ensuring fridge and clinical room temperatures are recorded on a daily basis

The role is primarily ward-based and requires a good understanding of medicine supply systems. You will be required to participate in seven-day, late-duty, and Bank Holiday rotas.

Salary: £30,630 to £32,346 a year pro-rata pa inc HCAS (outer)

## Skills

### Required
- NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services
- Knowledge of stock rotation & expiry dates
- Knowledge of different medicine formulations
- Significant experience of pharmacy distribution/dispensing systems
- Experience of working in a hospital pharmacy
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to organise own and others' workload
- Good customer care skills
- Computer literate, IT skills
- Good written communication

### Nice to have
- Experience with CMM (previously JAC) Pharmacy Computer System

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