Senior Assistant Technical Officer - Rotational

Senior Assistant Technical Officer - Rotational St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Band 3 SATO - Rotational. We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated Band 3 Senior Assistant Technical Officer (SATO) to join our medicines optimisation team. You will currently be an Assistant Technical Officer preferably in a hospital setting looking to expand your role and knowledge. If you have excellent proven organisation and communication skills as well as attention to detail and a good knowledge of pharmacy IT systems, then this exciting new role could be the job for you.

Main duties of the job

Your duties will include:

1. Day to day running of the satellite dispensing unit.
2. Rapid TTO turnaround to maintain patient flow.
3. Assist with the reporting of high cost medicines used within the directorate to ensure the timely reimbursement of income from our commissioners.
4. Assist the ward-based pharmacists and pharmacy technicians at ward level maintaining the outsourced blister pack service.
5. Participate in dispensary based duties on a rota system.
6. Participate in late evening rota, weekends and bank holiday rota.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London. Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting, is one of the country's principal teaching hospitals and is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region. As well as acute hospital services, we provide a variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010. St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences, and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people. The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.

Person Specification Experience

• Work experience, preferably in a pharmaceutical environment, involving dispensing for a minimum of 1 year.
• Ward top up experience.
• Proven stock control experience & knowledge.
• Proven experience of efficient dispensing.
• Ward/clinical experience.
• Proven experience of supervising staff and workload on a day-to-day basis.
• Previous experience of participation in audit.

Qualifications

• GCSE Grade A-C including maths, English, and science.

Skills

• Effective customer care skills - able to work to meet the needs of customers of the department and to meet the standards of the trust's code of practice at all times.
• Competent in all areas of dispensing practice.
• Ability to train and assess others.
• Familiarity with JAC computer system.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Pharmacy Operational Manager - Clinical Services

£29,485 to £31,088 a year per annum including inner London HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-NN BC-Z

Job locations

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust