Senior Pharmacy Assistant | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Preston, Chorley; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing support

Training opportunities

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is hiring a Senior Pharmacy Assistant to support the dispensary team and lead Pharmacy Assistants. The role emphasizes staff supervision, training, and ensuring quality dispensing services within a large trusts environment.

The post offers development opportunities within a busy hospital pharmacy, with a focus on patient care, teamwork, and delivering efficient pharmaceutical services across the trust.

Qualifications

• Leadership skills in a healthcare setting.
• Ability to supervise and guide junior staff in pharmacy tasks.
• Experience with dispensing processes and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Work under the direct supervision of the Dispensary Team Leader.
• Supervise, provide guidance and direction to Pharmacy Assistants and Pharmacy Technician Team.
• Plan and manage own workload and the team to ensure cost‑effective services.
• Train and develop staff; conduct appraisal and competency assessments.
• Line management of Pharmacy Assistants.
• Support training and development of other staff; contribute to new services and procedures.

Skills

Staff supervision

Training & development

Dispensing

Job description

Senior Pharmacy Assistant | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Company:

Company: Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an enthusiastic Pharmacy Assistant looking for a career in management? Full training will be delivered to support you make the transition.

If you are keen to join a forward thinking pharmacy department supporting patient care we would love to hear from you.

The Pharmacy Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to be able to offer a vacancy for a Senior Pharmacy Assistant.

As an employer we have earned a reputation for focusing on the development of our staff and for being an organisation people are proud to work for.

**The wellbeing of staff is important to us; we have a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team who provide support on a range of topics, run fitness classes and organise mindfulness sessions**

We are one of the largest trusts in the country, providing district general hospital services to people in Preston and Chorley and specialist care (Neurology, Neurosurgery, Burns and Plastics, Oncology and Renal Medicine) to 1.5m people across Lancashire and South Cumbria in addition we are proud to be the regional Major Trauma Centre providing life and limb saving treatment for patients throughout Lancashire and South Cumbria.

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• To work under the direct supervision of the Dispensary Team Leader.
• To supervise, provide guidance and direction to the Pharmacy Assistants and Pharmacy Technician Team within the designated area.
• Tobe responsible for ensuring that a range of quality Pharmacy Services are delivered to patients and other service users to include dispensing, and distribution of medicines.
• To plan and manage own workload and that of theteam to ensure services are delivered in a cost effective and operationally efficient manner.
• Tobe responsible for training and development including appraisal and competency assessments
• Line management of Pharmacy Assistants
• To support training and development of other staff;maintaining quality and standards by contributing to the development and implementation of new services, processes and procedures to deliver services in line with Professional, Local and National directives.

This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Nov 2026

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

£25,272 per annum, pro rata for part time workers

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust