Bank Pharmacy Assistant/Porter - Supply and Distribution

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals; Preston; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Preston is seeking a Bank Pharmacy Assistant/Porter to ensure effective medicine supply services. This role includes responsibilities such as delivering orders, maintaining stock levels, and working closely with healthcare teams. Candidates should have GCSE-level education and good communication skills. Experience in pharmacy or customer service is beneficial. Join us and make a difference in patient care.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Experience in a hospital setting

Contribution to patient care

Qualifications

• Experience working in a team setting.
• Good communication skills, both on the phone and in-person.
• Knowledge of stock control systems and health & safety regulations.

Responsibilities

• Provide a top-up service to wards and departments of the Trust.
• Process and deliver pharmacy orders to external customers.
• Communicate effectively with pharmacy and medical teams.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication skills

Customer service

Stock control knowledge

Computer skills

Education

GCSE level education

Job description

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Bank Pharmacy Assistant/Porter - Supply and Distribution, Preston

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Client:

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals

Location:

Preston, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

8

Posted:

12.08.2025

Expiry Date:

26.09.2025

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Job Description:

Job overview

Are you a driven, passionate individual looking for a new challenge? Then look no further! The pharmacy department are delighted to be able to offer vacancies for a Bank Pharmacy Porter/Assistant where no two days will be the same!

Why, you ask? There are a range of duties and responsibilities that you will receive training in. You could be providing an urgent top up of medicine stock to our hospital wards one day and then dealing with our external customers the next processing their orders.

In this role, you will need to be enthusiastic, motivated and demonstrate a desire to contribute towards developing our services. It would be an advantage if you had previous pharmacy or stores experience, however full training and support will be provided.

Our core working hours are Monday to Friday (8am until 7pm), with weekends and bank holidays managed on a rota basis (9am until 6pm). All shifts are 7.5 hours with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break. For those applying for a part time role, please be aware that this requires committing to the same days each week Monday to Friday for a full 7.5 hour shift.

**Please be aware that large parts of this role involve working in our pharmacy stores warehouse and involves significant manual handling of bulk products. These then require onwards delivery to wards and departments throughout the hospital so that our patients have access to the medicines that they need. There is also a requirement to use both hand and electric pallet trucks.

Main duties of the job

So what will you be working on on a day to day basis? Your main duties within this role will include providing an effective medicine supply service to wards/departments across the Trust and to external customers such as Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Trust , Ambulance stations, Private hospitals and other NHS hospitals. You will process, pick, pack and deliver all pharmacy orders for the Trust and even be responding to any robot issues. Your days won't ever be boring!

Further information can be found in the job description and if you would like to know more prior to interview, why not get in touch and come and visit us. We are more than happy for you to spend some time with us so that you can see what we do.

If you are considering applying then please contact us for more information, we can also arrange a visit for a tour of our department!

Working for our organisation

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Duties to include, but not be limited to:

• Communicates all relevant information and advice to the pharmacy, nursing and medical teams; patients and service users; and with external organisations as required
• Provide an effective ward top up service to wards/departments of the Trust
• Provide an effective medicine supply service to external customers who include Lancashire Care, Ambulance stations, GP’s, Private hospitals and other NHS hospitals.
• Provides an effective reception service whilst working on the phone rota, receiving incoming work and dealing with customer enquiries.
• Carries out housekeeping duties to maintain good environmental standards
• Contribute to effective team working within pharmacy
• Comply with legal and organisational requirements, standards and codes of practice on equality, diversity, discrimination and rights relevant to own role and responsibilities
• Maintain and develop own competence and seeks to extend the scope of personal knowledge and skills within scope of role and professional practice, policies and legislation
• Supports the training and development of pharmacy team
• To ensure the quality of quality of service provision
• Comply with current legislation, policy, good practice, organisational and professional codes of practice and ethical standards
• To ensure any incidents and near misses are identified, reported and recorded according to Trust policy.
• Proactively manage risk and maintain safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines
• To contribute to the delivery and achievement of the department Service Plan and specific service improvements
• Delivery of In-Patient and Discharge medication.

Person specification

Qualifications & Education

• Educated to GCSE level

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of working in a team
• Knowledge of stock control systems
• Good telephone/ communication skills
• Computer experience including good keyboard skills
• Knowledge of Health & safety
• Experience of working in pharmacy
• Experience of working in a customer facing role
• Experience of working in a busy environment
• Knowledge of Good Distribution Practice and MHRA Guidelines