Pharmacy Dispensary Assistant Technical Officer/Dispenser

NHS; Middlesbrough; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Pharmacy Dispensary Assistant Technical Officer. You will play a crucial role in providing dispensing services and supporting patient care in a busy pharmacy department. This full-time position offers opportunities for professional development and training in leadership and improvement.

Benefits

Leadership and Improvement Training

Qualifications

• Experience of dispensing to L2 pharmacy services standard.
• Knowledge of a broad range of drugs and pharmacy law.

Responsibilities

• Dispensing a wide variety of prescription types including controlled drugs.
• Participating in dispensing services under the management of the Dispensary Manager.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Pharmacy Product Knowledge

Education

L2 Pharmacy Services including dispensing

GCSE level - English & Maths A-C/4-9

Job description

Go back South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Pharmacy Dispensary Assistant Technical Officer/Dispenser

The closing date is 15 May 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer - Dispenser, to join the dedicated team delivering dispensing and ward services from the Pharmacy department.

You will be based on rotation in the dispensary at The James Cook University Hospital(JCUH) participating in the dispensing services under the management of the Dispensary Manager and in one of our clinical teams working on the wards under the supervision of pharmacy ward leads.

Main duties of the job

You will be dispensing a wide variety of prescription types including controlled drugs, prescription only medicines and unlicensed drugs for the inpatients of JCUH and the community hospitals.

You will be expected to have experience of dispensing to L2 pharmacy services standard, have knowledge of a broad range of drugs and be familiar with pharmacy law and professional practice from either hospital or community setting.

Candidates are eligible to apply if they are working towards the L2 dispensing certificate and will have completed this by the end of 2024.

The successful candidate will work full time hours 08.30-17:00 Monday - Friday. They will also be included in dispensary and extended/out-of-hours rotas, which are currently:

• Weekend working once every 5 weeks (09:00-17:00) Saturday and Sunday, reimbursed with a full weekday off the following week
• Late night working once every 2 weeks (09:00-17:30) instead of 08.30-17:00
• Contribution to bank holiday working rota

The busy pharmacy dept. at JCUH has a team of over 200 staff including clinical pharmacists, technicians and support staff providing medicines management, dispensing, and logistic services to the general and specialist areas of the JCUH site and a number of community hospitals. The pharmacy department provides a stimulating, friendly and professionally rewarding environment for staff to develop their career.

Please note this post will close at sufficient applicants.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the New and Aspiring leaders programme, and the Foundation Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. After you complete this one and a half day of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• L2 Pharmacy Services including dispensing or equivalent certificate. Or working towards
• GCSE level - English & Maths A-C/4-9 or Level 2 Maths and English

Knowledge

• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication skills, both verbal & written.
• Proven experience of Standard Operating procedures.
• Broad pharmacy product knowledge

Experience

• Recent record of accurate dispensing in hospital / community pharmacies

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust