Pharmacy Assistant

Pharmacy Assistant

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£12.58 per hour, dependent on experience

Build a brighter future while you’re helping us build a healthier nation. At Nuffield Health, our approach is to fully integrate medicines into a personalised pathway of patient care. That means you’ll benefit from a way of working that allows you to do the best job you can. It’s everything you need to grow your career. It starts with you.

As a Pharmacy Assistant at our Wessex Hospital, you with have NVQ2 or equivalent in pharmacy services and ideally have previous hospital experience. It’s also important that you have excellent communication and people skills, as you’ll be working closely with our patients and a variety of clinical staff.

The Opportunity

As our pharmacy assistant, you will:

• Help monitor and maintain stock levels within the Pharmacy department

• Assist in the procurement of pharmaceutical stock for pharmacy and other departments using appropriate electronic systems

• Support the pharmacist in dispensing controlled drugs

• To participate in stock takes within the pharmacy department quarterly

• To date check as required

• To provide general administrative support to the department

• To help with general dispensing as required

The Person

To succeed as a Pharmacy Assistant, you will:

• Have previous pharmacy experience

• Hold a Buttercups (or equivalent) qualification in Pharmacy Services

• Have excellent people skills, as you will be working closely both with patients and the wider hospital team

• Have excellent computer skills

• To be able to work as part of a team, and equally as confident lone working

• Be motivated to provide a high quality service

• To be passionate and enthusiastic in their role

• To show initiative

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. From Holiday in line with the Working Time Directive, Access to our Pension Scheme and discounted gym membership at £25.00 a month.

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.

Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital

Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital is a stunning 46 bedded private hospital in West Hampshire with specialisms in Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology, Urology, Women’s Health and Spinal surgery. The hospital also benefits from having onsite Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy and Hydrotherapy so we can give our patients a complete package of care. There are 16 consulting rooms with speciality outpatient rooms, 46 private patient bedrooms with en-suite facilities, 24 hr resident doctor on site (RMO) and four operating theatres and one endoscopy suite.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.