Senior ATO - Customer Service

To provide support to Pharmacy services across the Dispensary and Ward-Based Services, under the supervision of registered pharmacy professionals. The post holder will assist in the preparation, dispensing, distribution, and stock control of medicines, ensuring safe and timely supply to patients and departments.

The role includes routine and non-routine tasks, requiring the use of standard procedures and judgement in prioritising workload.

The post holder will also support the supervision and training of Band 2 ATO staff and contribute to service improvement initiatives.

We are looking for a friendly, organised and professional individual to join our Pharmacy team, with a key focus on providing an efficient and welcoming reception service. You will be an important first point of contact for patients, carers, hospital staff and other healthcare professionals, responding to face-to-face and telephone enquiries, receiving and managing prescriptions, taking and relaying messages, and helping to ensure queries are directed to the appropriate member of the Pharmacy team. You will use pharmacy electronic systems to support prescription tracking and workflow, undertake a range of administrative duties and handle confidential patient information appropriately. Working in a busy environment, you will need excellent communication and organisational skills, a calm and helpful approach, and the ability to prioritise competing demands while delivering a positive experience for everyone accessing the Pharmacy service.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.