# Senior Assistant Technical Officer - St Thomas' Dispensary

**Company**: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Salary**: £31554.00 to £33270.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has presented for a self-motivated, proactive and hard working individual to join our team in St Thomas' inpatient dispensary.

The post-holder will work closely with other Senior Assistant Technical officers to help provide core support to dispensary staff, demonstrate comprehensive communication and assist in the dispensing of medicines to in-patients and the supply of discharge medications in line with CQC standards.

**Main duties of the job**

- Assisting with reception and phone duties

- Answering and resolving complex queries from doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals

- Dispensing inpatient and Discharge medications

- Dispensing controlled drugs using our controlled drug omnicell cabinet

- Basic understanding of controlled drug medication and legalities

- Returning/ Discarding of medication following procedures

- Ordering, monitoring and stocking the Dispensary appliances daily

- Dispensary stock checks

- Rotation of stock to ensure minimal stock loss

- Omnicell cabinet counts for ward stock/Departments

- Dispensing of inpatient and discharge medication

**About us**

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

**Organisational Values:**

- Caring

- Ambitious

- Inclusive

## Skills

### Required
- ability to work to set procedures SOP's accurately
- ability to work as a team
- ability to dispense accurately including basic mathematical prescriptions
- ability to organise their own workload
- previous experience working in a Pharmacy
- Maths/English/Science GCSE level A-C
- NVQ/QCF level 2 or willing to complete

### Nice to have
- Previous experience in Stock control
- BTEC science/A level sciences

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