Senior Dispensing Assistant

NHS; Chertsey; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Dispensing Assistant to join their busy Pharmacy department. Your responsibilities include dispensing prescriptions, managing stock, and supporting pharmacy staff with various administrative tasks. The role requires excellent communication skills and a commitment to patient care. This is a full-time position with working hours from Monday to Friday, offering NHS benefits and a competitive salary.

Benefits

Excellent pension scheme

On-site Nurseries

On-site staff cafes

On-site parking

Salary Sacrifice schemes

Qualifications

• Ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills.
• Must be hard working and keen to learn.
• Ability to prioritise work and support professional staff.

Responsibilities

• Dispense prescriptions for hospital inpatients and outpatients.
• Undertake stock management and maintain accurate patient records.
• Participate in late night, weekend, and Bank Holiday rotas.

Skills

Communication

Organisational skills

Customer service

Education

NVQ 2

Job description

Go back Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Dispensing Assistant

The closing date is 02 July 2025

The Pharmacy at St Peters Hospital have an exciting opportunity for a friendly and well organised individual to join our department as a Senior Dispensing Assistant.We are a busy Pharmacy department, and your role will involve you supporting the Pharmacy dispensary team by receiving and processing prescriptions.You will be working in a team alongside other Senior dispensing assistants, Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists. The core working hours are 09:00 to 17:30, Monday to Friday.The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills to be able to effectively work alongside staff of all grades throughout the Hospital. You will be hard working and keen to learn and have the ability to prioritise work. You will be supporting the professional and technical staff in the dispensaries across site but mainly based at St Peter's site including good housekeeping and general administration duties.Duties are supervised by qualified staff.

Main duties of the job

To dispense prescriptions for hospital in patients and out patients, discharge prescriptions and controlled drugs for all service users, undertake stock management in the dispensary. Adhere to SOPs, to use the pharmacy computer stock control system for the issues of medication for prescriptions and ad hoq requests and the maintenance of accurate patient records.You will assist in the maintenance of stock checks and stock rotation, You will undertake dispensary reception duties and answering any telephone calls.

About us

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On-site Nurseries
• On-site staff cafes
• On-site parking
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:www.asph-careers.org

Job responsibilities

Overview of Responsibilities :

• To dispense prescriptions for hospital in patients and out patients, discharge prescriptions and controlled drugs for all service users.
• To undertake stock management in the dispensary e.g. daily stock checks, checking expiry dates
• To effectively and accurately use the computer stock control system for the issue of pharmaceuticals for prescriptions and ad-hoc stock requests, and maintenance of accurate patient records
• To ensure that all activities carried out in the Dispensary follow departmental Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs)
• To file completed prescriptions, requisitions ensuring easy retrieval of information.
• To ensure that the dispensary is regularly replenished with cartons, dispensing bottles, medicine spoons, oral syringes etc.
• To assist in the maintenance of adequate stocks and stock rotation in the dispensary
• To participate in a continuing stock check, ensuring items are in date and dealing with out of date medication according to procedure.
• To participate in the ward stock top up scheme on a regular basis including audit of stock.
• To support Pharmacy Distribution staff during periods of low staffing.
• To undertake Emergency drug cupboard checks as rostered, and fill and supply Emergency drug boxes as requested.
• To maintain a tidy and clean work area and put away stock containers after use
• To undertake reception duties as necessary including responding to calls at the Pharmacy hatch and dealing with telephone queries.
• To undertake general administration duties as required.
• To support Cancer Services Unit as required.
• To participate in late night, weekend and Bank Holiday rotas
• To assist with duties relevant to the post as deemed necessary by the Dispensary Team Leader
• All pharmacy staff must show confidentiality with regard to any information about patients, confidential information about the Trust and commercial information (e.g. drug prices).

Person Specification

Qualifications

NVQ 2

• NVQ 2

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

Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£26,240 to £27,928 a yearper annum inc. HCAS