High-Cost Drugs & Homecare Pharmacy Assistant

• Support our Lead Pharmacy Technician (Homecare and Blueteq) in the management of homecare medication to our patients
• Help the ophthalmology clinical area with the controlled supply of high cost stock
• Work with the Blueteq pre-approval funding process to ensure that their patients have the correct funding in place
• Help the gastroenterology team in managing the flow of homecare prescriptions and ensuring funding is in place
• Provide support to the lead pharmacy technician working with the homecare team to assist in the delivery of the team's key objectives, completion of the teams agreed tasks and actions, and documentation as per pre-set processes
• Book in and process homecare prescriptions, checking through the prescription to make it is legal and complete
• Create purchase order numbers and sending the prescriptions to the suppliers
• Pay the invoices from the suppliers and to book the medication out to the patients profile
• Monitor and action emails to the joint box
• Work with gastroenterology to ensure homecare prescriptions are managed when requested and checking that the patient has prior approval of funding before prescriptions sent to pharmacy
• Work with ophthalmology, in the supply of high cost medication, controlling of the stock and ensuring prior approval of funding is in place

• QCF level 3 in Pharmacy services - or willing and able to work towards
• GCSE or equivalent in Maths and English grade C or above
• Working within a team
• Managing own workload to meet the needs of a service
• Previous pharmacy experience
• Working within a busy office environment

• Previous worked with spreadsheets on Microsoft Excel
• Previously managed joint email boxes

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