Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Homecare | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will assist the Principal Pharmacy Technician Homecare, in the co-ordination of the workload for Homecare and will ensure that the administrative duties relating to Homecare purchasing and invoicing are carried out in accordance with departmental policies and procedures and drug trial protocols. Administrative support for pharmacy homecare team including managing prescriptions, emails, telephones and invoices 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. We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer, and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs. We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients. As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. We also have a positive approach to corporate social responsibility and are keen to engage our staff in an agenda that ranges from promoting environmental sustainability to the creation of local employment opportunities.

• To process orders, in association with Homecare Delivery Companies prescriptions for home delivery
• To ensure continuity of supply/discontinuation of supply of medication to patients by accurately maintaining appropriate recording system
• To report on and follow up Homecare service problems to the appropriate people
• To maintain appropriate filing systems for homecare prescriptions, invoices and other records
• To process Homecare invoices according to Pharmacy SOPs to make sure billing flows are picked up correctly for commissioners billing
• To maintain strict confidentiality of all patients
• To delete all outstanding orders no longer required on a monthly basis