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Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Practice

● Perform all duties required within, or on

behalf of the community pharmacy. This includes all Essential, Additional and

Enhanced services which are locally or nationally commissioned. This will

include but not limited to:

○ Labelling and assembly of prescription

items

○ Accurate endorsing of prescriptions

○ Maintaining a clean and tidy work

environment

○ Collection of prescriptions and or

delivering dispensed items as may be required.

○ Placing, receiving and putting orders into

stock.

● Follow national and local guidance at all

times, with particular regard to “Medicines, ethics in Practice” (MEP),

current addition.

● Work under direction of the pharmacy

Standard operating procedures (SOP’s).

● To undertake the sale or supply of

medicines and goods, including over the counter sales.

● Comply with the requirements for the sale

or supply of all medicines as required by the Medicines Act.

● Maintain stocks at an appropriate level of

all medication and appliances, within the pharmacy, to meet patient demands.

Communication

●

Provide advice and support to patients and their relatives and carers

as appropriate.

●

Build good relationships with practices and other prescribers and

healthcare professionals (e.g., GPs, community pharmacists, district nurses

etc.) to facilitate patient care.

●

Communicate effectively with the patient, relatives, carers and all

members of the healthcare team.

●

Counsel patients appropriately upon medication issues and throughout

their care, providing advice and written support where appropriate.

●

Promote and enhance the reputation of IntraHealth Pharmacy.

Delivering a quality service

●

Code of Conduct For Professional Group – all staff members are

required to work in accordance with their professional group’s code of

conduct.

●

Be aware of, and comply with employment legislation and codes of good

practice.

●

Be aware of, and comply with, all company and practice infection

prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene,

environmental and food hygiene.

●

Report any significant events within the time frame set out in the

company policy.

●

Follow current MEP and local guidance with regard to Community

pharmacy issues and alerts.

Team Working

● Work as part of the community pharmacy team

and wider team of healthcare professionals, fielding queries and offering

advice.

● Support and help develop colleagues and

other members of the community pharmacy team

● The post holder will be expected to work

flexibly according to team / clinical needs

Management of risk

●

Health & Safety – the post-holder must co-operate with Management

in discharging its responsibilities under the Health & Safety at Work Act

1974 and take reasonable health and safety of themselves and others and to

ensure the agreed safety procedures are carried out to maintain a safe

environment for patients, employees and visitors. All Health & Safety issues to be

flagged to senior staff and the post-holder must comply with the IntraHealth

Health & Safety Policy as well as any additional policy requirements

within the clinical contract.

●

Ensure personal, staff, stock, cash and premise security at all times

and before leaving the pharmacy.

●

Report all adverse events and significant events in accordance with

agreed procedures and participate in improvement activities to reduce

reoccurrence

Managing information

● Maintain appropriate records.

●

Confidentiality – During the course of your employment you may have

access to, see or hear information of a confidential nature and you are

required not to disclose such information, particularly that relating to

patients and staff.

●

In order to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 you must not at

any time use personal data held by IntraHealth or IntraHealth Pharmacy for

any unauthorized purpose or disclosure such as data to a third party.

Learning and Development

●

Complete accredited course, to enable all aspects of NHS pharmacy

contract can be carried out including Essential, Additional and Enhanced

services and Locally commissioned services.

●

Complete in-house training course, annual training review including

peer review.

Equality and Diversity

●

You are at all times required to carry out your responsibilities with

due regard to the IntraHealth Equal Opportunities Policy and to ensure that

staff receive equal treatment throughout their employment with the company.

Managing Tasks /

Projects

●

Ensuring tasks and duties are performed within clearly defined time

quality standards

Managing

Information / Confidentiality and data protection

●

Ensure all relevant information is handled appropriately in

concordance with Information Governance guidelines.

Core Competencies

Technical

Competencies

●

Computer literacy skills

●

Dispensing accuracy

●

Following the pharmacy standard operating procedures

Teamwork

●

Teamwork is essential to operation of a community pharmacy.

Communications

●

High level of verbal and written communication skills

●

Information sharing with other professionals

Personal/professional

Development

●

Participate in training programmes as part of your personal and

professional development

●

Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance,

demonstrating skills and activities to others undertaking similar work.

Job description

Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Practice

● Perform all duties required within, or on

behalf of the community pharmacy. This includes all Essential, Additional and

Enhanced services which are locally or nationally commissioned. This will

include but not limited to:

○ Labelling and assembly of prescription

items

○ Accurate endorsing of prescriptions

○ Maintaining a clean and tidy work

environment

○ Collection of prescriptions and or

delivering dispensed items as may be required.

○ Placing, receiving and putting orders into

stock.

● Follow national and local guidance at all

times, with particular regard to “Medicines, ethics in Practice” (MEP),

current addition.

● Work under direction of the pharmacy

Standard operating procedures (SOP’s).

● To undertake the sale or supply of

medicines and goods, including over the counter sales.

● Comply with the requirements for the sale

or supply of all medicines as required by the Medicines Act.

● Maintain stocks at an appropriate level of

all medication and appliances, within the pharmacy, to meet patient demands.

Communication

●

Provide advice and support to patients and their relatives and carers

as appropriate.

●

Build good relationships with practices and other prescribers and

healthcare professionals (e.g., GPs, community pharmacists, district nurses

etc.) to facilitate patient care.

●

Communicate effectively with the patient, relatives, carers and all

members of the healthcare team.

●

Counsel patients appropriately upon medication issues and throughout

their care, providing advice and written support where appropriate.

●

Promote and enhance the reputation of IntraHealth Pharmacy.

Delivering a quality service

●

Code of Conduct For Professional Group – all staff members are

required to work in accordance with their professional group’s code of

conduct.

●

Be aware of, and comply with employment legislation and codes of good

practice.

●

Be aware of, and comply with, all company and practice infection

prevention and control policies, to include hand hygiene, personal hygiene,

environmental and food hygiene.

●

Report any significant events within the time frame set out in the

company policy.

●

Follow current MEP and local guidance with regard to Community

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What is the salary for this pharmacy dispenser role in Chilton?

The advertised salary for this pharmacy dispenser role at Intrahealth Ltd is £13.21 (per hour). Typical pharmacy dispenser pay in Chilton varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

How many pharmacy jobs are currently open in Chilton?

PharmSee is currently tracking 2 active pharmacy vacancies in Chilton across 11 major UK chains and NHS sources. Browse every open Chilton pharmacy role on PharmSee's jobs search.

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