# Senior Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer – Stores and Distribution **Company**: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Orpington **Work arrangement**: onsite **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: £30,630 to £32,346 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9213-26-0945?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_fcfd601e-730 ## Description We are seeking a Senior Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer to join our Pharmacy Procurement and Distribution unit. The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting in the day-to-day duties of the unit, with a specific focus on the distribution and subsequent receiving of all medicines. **Main duties of the job** - Accurately use the internal computer system EPIC to issue stock items to replenish wards, departments, and community clinics. - Use information obtained from Omnicell system to respond to stock requests and assist with stock optimisation. - Accurately assemble items on picking tickets ready for checking. - Accurately check items previously picked by another member of staff and pack appropriately ready for delivery to required areas. - Have responsibility for the top-up of drugs to a designated ward/department and provide cover as necessary for any unavailable staff on their wards/department. - Maintenance of stocked items in the Omnicell cabinets including assigning, removing, and adjusting stock locations. - Generate Omnicell critical items report. - Assist in the issue of 'to follow' items for wards and departments daily. - Monitor and action requests and queries received in the distribution email inbox, including 'ad hoc' items to wards. - Check and record environmental temperatures, referring to a senior colleague in the event of any anomalies. **Procurement** - Provide cover for ordering in the absence of the Procurement Assistant. - Provide cover for invoicing in the absence of the Procurement Assistant. - Investigate ordering and invoicing discrepancies. - Investigation and escalation of out-of-stock items. **General Duties** - Participate in the department 7-day service, including weekends. - Deal with enquiries received over the telephone and within Pharmacy Stores environment, referring to the Senior Technicians if necessary. - Attend promptly to all internal and external customers and provide a high standard of customer service. - Be responsible for data accuracy on the computer system. - Undergo training to ensure competence. - Follow all procedures and policies in the department, including any other relevant duties, as may be required by the Director of Pharmacy. - Maintain satisfactory personal performance and professional standards and achieve, where possible, agreed objectives described in the Annual Staff Appraisal system. **Benefits** - Competitive salary: £30,630 to £32,346 per annum, including high-cost allowance (outer). - Permanent, full-time position. **Requirements** - GCSE or equivalent in English and Mathematics grades A-C or grades 4-9. - NVQ Level 2 accredited knowledge in Pharmacy Services or willing to work towards obtaining. - Ability to understand the importance of the medicines supply chain in a hospital environment. - Stock handling experience. - Ability to prioritise and organise routine daily tasks using own initiative in an accurate, methodical manner. - Ability to resolve/escalate emergency stock problems. - Able to work in a busy demand-led service, including on wards and stores, and respond to changing situations and environments. ## Skills ### Required - EPIC - Omnicell - stock handling - customer service - data accuracy ### Nice to have - experience in a hospital environment - training staff members - analysing Ward Stock Usage figures --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9213-26-0945?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)