Pharmacy Assistant

NEMS Community Benefit Services Ltd; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare organization in Mansfield is seeking a Pharmacy Assistant to support pharmacy operations. The role involves managing medicinal stock, assisting with prescription preparation, and coordinating training activities. Ideal candidates must have strong attention to detail, excellent organizational and communication skills, and a proactive attitude. This position offers a rewarding experience in a fast-paced healthcare environment.

Benefits

Learning and development program

Opportunity to develop clinical skills

Qualifications

• Experience in pharmacy operations is preferred.
• Ability to manage and prepare medicinal stock accurately.
• Strong communication skills to coordinate training activities.

Responsibilities

• Manage medicinal stock including stock checks and ordering.
• Monitor pharmaceutical storage temperatures.
• Prepare stock for dispensing with compliance.

Skills

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Proactive approach

Job description

This is a primary care-based Pharmacy Assistant role supporting pharmacy operations within a healthcare setting. There is no direct patient contact. The Pharmacy Assistant plays a key role in managing medicinal stock, prescription preparation, inventory control, and administrative support to pharmacy teams across multiple sites. The role requires attention to detail, excellent organisational and communication skills, and a proactive, innovative approach suitable for a fast-paced primary care environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage medicinal stock including stock checks, top-ups, ordering, discrepancy tracking, waste management, and reporting.
• Monitor pharmaceutical storage temperatures and escalate any breaches promptly to the pharmacy technician.
• Support Medicines Optimisation Committee through meeting coordination, minute taking, and updating action logs.
• Assist with prescription pack preparation.
• Support training activities for clinical and non-clinical staff related to safe stock handling.
• Prepare stock for dispensing, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulations, including repackaging, overlabelling, and ensuring legal compliance for pharmacist review (excluding controlled drugs).

About NEMS

NEMS CBS is a high quality, high performing; not-for-profit organisation which delivers integrated urgent care and urgent primary care services to over 1 million patients. Responsive, adaptable and continually evolving, we have a reputation for delivering locally-tailored, safe, effective and cost efficient services with high levels of patient satisfaction.

We are committed to investing in our people and have an established programme of learning and development, successfully developing our own Urgent Care Practitioners and Advanced Clinical Practitioners. NEMS currently operates 3 main services: (1) Integrated Urgent Care across Nottinghamshire serving a patient population of over 1 million, including home visiting, remote consultation and clinical assessment services; (2) Urgent Primary care provision located within the A&E Department at QMC, (3) A 24-hour walkin urgent primary care service adjacent to Kings Mill Hospital A&E, Mansfield. NEMS is committed to the NHS Values (as set out in the NHS Constitution March 2015). NEMS CBS is a registered society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014.