Have you got the enthusiasm and passion to take the next step in your career in an acute hospital pharmacy department?
We have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacy assistant who has recent pharmacy practice experience to develop their leadership skills and become a Lead Pharmacy Assistant. You will contribute to our team by delivering a safe and effective pharmacy dispensary service.
You will play a pivotal role in the delivery of a high quality service to our patients and other hospital service users by taking on the role of shift manager for our 2 different dispensaries, coordinating workflow and overseeing our pharmacy assistants.
Using your extensive knowledge of pharmacy practice, you will answer queries from colleagues, patients and other service users to ensure the provision of a professional friendly service.
In order to help you make this next step in your career, support and training will be provided, including support and mentorship from the Dispensary Managers, pharmacy related courses and in-house training including the Trust’s Emerging Leader Course.
Details about our pharmacy service - https://esneft.pagetiger.com/buqzfou/1
Responsibilities
* Day to day leadership responsibility for ensuring that operational activity at Dispensary level is undertaken. Provide direct line management to the Dispensing Assistant team including conducting appraisals, drafting rotas, monitoring attendance and absence levels and monitoring compliance with mandatory training requirements.
* Be the first point of contact for multidisciplinary staff requiring support and/or advice relating to this service.
* Proactively coordinate and manage the flow of work through Dispensary Services to ensure an efficient and safe Pharmacy service to patients and staff.
* Assisting the Chief Pharmacy Technician and Dispensary Manager with the induction, training and development of staff working within dispensary services.
* Work collaboratively with wider Pharmacy colleagues to ensure the optimal and cost effective use of medicines within the dispensary environments; minimising drug wastage accordingly.
This role will require weekend working and is based within the Pharmacy department at Ipswich Hospital.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that time matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
This advert closes on Monday 12 Jan 2026
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