Pharmacy Assistant

Nuffield Health Brentwood; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health Woking Hospital is hiring a Pharmacy Assistant to join the Pharmacy team. The role involves dispensing medicines for outpatients, assisting with ward-related duties and stock control, and supporting the pharmacist to deliver high quality care.

The position is full-time and requires working Saturdays on a rotational basis. A dispensing assistant course and strong numeracy and English skills are essential for success in this hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Completed dispensing assistant course.
• Experience in patient-facing role.
• Able to dispense medicines for outpatients.
• Assist with procurement and stock control.

Responsibilities

• Assist in administrative tasks.
• Accurately dispense medicines for outpatients.
• Help prepare take home medicines for inpatients.
• Aid in procurement of medicines for the department.
• Support with stock take and expiry date checking.
• Provide medicines to all hospital departments on request.
• Assist pharmacist with ward work and other duties as appropriate.

Skills

Dispensing medicines

Patient facing role

Team player

English fluency

Numeracy skills

Education

Dispensing assistant course

Job description

Pharmacy Assistant

Woking Hospital | Pharmacy | Permanent | Full Time |

£25,545 per annum

37.5 hours per week Required to work Saturdays on a rotational basis

At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

OurNuffield Wokingpharmacy department currently have an opportunity for a pharmacy assistant . Continue your journey with us whilst we’ll support you to be your best.

An opportunity has arisen for a full time pharmacy assistant to work alongside the pharmacist in delivery of a high quality service to our stakeholders.

As ourPharmacy Assistantyou will:

• Assist in administrative tasks
• Accurately dispense medicines for outpatients
• Help prepare take home medicines for inpatients
• Aid in the procurement of medicines for the department
• Support with stock take and expiry date checking
• Provide all hospital departments with medicines at their request
• Assist the pharmacist with ward work and other duties as appropriate

To succeed as a Pharmacy Assistant , you will need:

• Have completed dispensing assistant course
• Have experience in patient facing role
• Be fluent in English and have basic numeracy skills
• Be motivated to provide high quality service
• A team player

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.

• free gym membership
• health assessments
• retail discounts
• pension options

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Woking Hospital

Our Woking Hospital is a leading private hospital in Surrey, South East England. We pride ourselves on providing exceptional standards of treatment and care in our state-of-the-art facilities and CPD programme. Our specialities include Women’s and Men’s health, Orthopaedics, and Eye Care with many more available. We are registered for 27 beds with en-suite facilities on the Ward, two Theatres with facilities including lamina flow and one Minor Operating Theatre, Pre-Assessment,Physiotherapy clinic, Onsite Pharmacy, Mammography, Xray and Ultrasound, with nine consulting rooms in Outpatients.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today

It starts with you.