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Job Title:Veterinary Pharmacy Dispensing Assistant
Location: Northwest Veterinary Specialists
Reports to: Head Nurse in Oncology, Lab, Pharmacy, and Purchasing – Caroline Boothroyd
Job Purpose
Northwest Veterinary Specialists is a multi-discipline veterinary hospital with an opportunity for someone join the pharmacy and purchasing team. The successful candidate will provide a high level of pharmacy support for the veterinary hospital.
The ideal candidate will have a positive attitude, used to working under pressure effectively with a high attention to detail, and in a fast-paced environment. We want someone to make an important contribution to the pets that are undergoing treatment here at Northwest as well as providing excellent provision to the clinical and non-clinical teams.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Providing a high standard of pharmacy support for all departments within the hospital.
- Keeping health and safety of others and yourself at the forefront whilst dealing with all classes of medications.
- Daily wholesaler medication order (stock medications, controlled drugs)
- Ordering of less common medications from various suppliers
- Sourcing medications from alternative suppliers as needed
- Participate in stock take
- Completion of VMD Special Import Certificates based off information provided by the veterinary surgeon
- Liaising with clients requesting medications.
- Liaising with referring veterinary practices over medications requests
- Excellent communication skills and feel confident in speaking to other colleagues and clients.
- Good time management to ensure efficiency within the pharmacy
- To be self-motivated with problem solving skills and the ability to multi task
- Excellent team work skills
- Willingness to learn and pass on those teachings.
- Accurate completion, filing, archiving of paperwork (batch number recordings, CD requisition forms, VMD special import certificates, written prescriptions)
- Ensuring that the pharmacy is kept clean, tidy, and well maintained at all times.
- Completion of monthly jobs (expiry dates)
- Completion of weekly jobs (cleaning, maintenance)
- Completion of daily jobs (temperature monitoring, cleaning, restocking)
- Daily restocking of consumables
- Pricing up medication for dispensing on Animana.
- Safe preparation and dispensing of medication (oral, injectable, constant rate infusions, topical) requests received by email, written prescription, and over the telephone from within the hospital.
- Postage of medications as required and pricing of postage costs
- Remain an accessible point of contact for any queries colleagues may have with regards to medications and ordering
- To attend meetings as required.
- Answer incoming telephone calls to the pharmacy
- Completion of the Linnaeus Dispensing Programme
- To assist with the preparation and completion of tasks linked to the practice standards scheme
Desirable
Excellent IT skills
Previous experience within a pharmacy, Veterinary Pharmacy not essential.
Working conditions
- Full time 40 hours per week on a 8 hour shift range of 8am-6pm Monday to Friday.
Part of an amazing global family
Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets. We are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team. Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.
The future of the veterinary world is at the heart of everything we do. We are all individual but two important things bring us together: a commitment to excellence and our passion to make A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS.
Linnaeus is owned by Mars, that makes us part of their 70,000 Veterinary Health Associates who spend their days thinking about the 400 million pets of the world and how to improve their lives. Being part of this amazing global group gives us the benefit of a huge network of experts and specialists, a future we can invest in and the security that allows us to concentrate on what we do best – caring for pets.
Our Associates are fundamental to our success and we are proud to count some of the finest specialists, veterinary surgeons and nurses in the UK among our team.
Being part of the Mars family of businesses provides huge development opportunities across the group for our Associates.
Linnaeus is an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, we are committed to fostering a culture that is inclusive and diverse for all our associates.
If you would like to apply for this role, please click the Apply Button or for more information, please feel free to reach out directly to our Talent Acquisition team at careers@linnaeusgroup.co.uk
