Dispensing Pharmacy Assistant - Aseptic Dispensing Unit

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking capable candidates to join our Pharmacy Production team, contributing to safe, high-quality patient care. You will work across three key areas: Aseptic Dispensing Unit, Quality Control, and Pre-pack Unit, ensuring accurate preparation and timely delivery of medicines to clinics and wards.

Note: this role is not pharmacy dispensing. Visa sponsorship is limited to eligible roles.

Responsibilities

• Assemble and prepare patient-specific injectable medications in a sterile aseptic dispensing unit.
• Support Quality Control by checks on unlicensed medicines and Pre-packing Unit products.
• Label bulk quantities and pick/accuracy-check orders in the Pre-packing Unit.

Job description

Are you looking for a role where your work directly contributes to safer, better patient care?

Join our Pharmacy Production team and play a vital part in ensuring patients receive high‑quality, safe, and appropriately prepared medicines.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to join a committed and skilled team dedicated to maximising the availability of safe, appropriate medication to support excellent patient care.

Please note, this is NOT a Pharmacy Dispensing role.

You will work across three key areas within Pharmacy Production:

Aseptic Dispensing Unit

Your primary focus will be within our Aseptic Dispensing Unit, where you will assemble and prepare patient‑specific injectable medications for clinics and wards throughout the Trust. You will work within a Pharmacy clean room, wearing specialist clothing and prepare medications inside a pharmaceutical isolator.

Quality Control Department

You will be trained and validated to support the Quality Control team, carrying out essential checks on unlicensed medicines and products labelled in our Pre‑packing Unit.

Pre‑packing Unit

You will also be validated to work within the Pre‑packing Unit, labelling bulk quantities of medicines for both internal and external Trust customers, as well as picking and accuracy‑checking orders.

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically‑led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS‑run hospital in the East Midlands.

Role

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Julie Binney Job title: Production Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01623 622515

For further information or to arrange a visit prior to interview, please contact Julie, Laura or Sam on extension 3169