Overview
£24,960 to £26,227 per annum ( pro rata for part time). Main area Pharmacy Grade £24,960 to £26,227 per annum ( pro rata for part time) Contract Permanent Hours. 18 hours per week (Sunday to Tuesday). Site Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury. Job ref 434- SCS8036270. Closing 09/06/2026 23:59.
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area. We care for over half a million patients every year:
* Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
* Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
* Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
* Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us. We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact bht.recruitment@nhs.net or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
Are you an experienced dispenser from community pharmacy looking for a role with a difference? Would you like a change of setting and the desire to develop your knowledge in a Hospital Outpatient Setting? Or are you thinking about a career in Pharmacy and looking for your first Hospital based role as a Pharmacy Assistant? Outpatient Hospital Pharmacy may just be the place for you. Discover what it’s like to work as an Outpatient Pharmacy Assistant, where you will have ample opportunity to develop and utilise your existing knowledge as well as learn new skills to provide a safe and efficient pharmacy service to patients. Pharmacy@Bucks is an innovative Outpatient Dispensing service that combines the knowledge of a community and a hospital Pharmacy to provide exemplary service to all our patients. Working in close partnership with the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT), we thrive to provide a customer focused clinical service to all patients and Healthcare Professionals alike.
Main duties of the job
All Outpatient Pharmacies across Amersham, Stoke Mandeville and High Wycombe are run by Buckinghamshire Health Projects Ltd (BHPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Pharmacy@Bucks provides dispensing services from outpatient prescriptions issued by BHT and advice to BHT staff and visitors, with the option to provide Over the counter (OTC) medicines in the near future. Since the start of Pharmacy@Bucks, we have seen the professional development of our keen staff members, ranging from Pharmacy Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians and Accuracy checking Pharmacy Technicians to Pharmacist Managers and Lead Pharmacists. We would like to welcome two keen Pharmacy Assistants to our ever-growing team with a passion to learn, develop and grow in their role. This unique role offers the chance to be part of a growing team within our outpatient Pharmacies at Amersham, High Wycombe and/or Stoke Mandeville Hospital with potential to work cross-site. This will enable you to develop your career in a fast-paced environment, whilst providing a customer focused and critical service to patients. You will be supported with the right training to ensure that you have the skills and knowledge required for working in a hospital setting. The chosen candidate will receive in-house training, including labelling and dispensing of Outpatient prescriptions, ordering medication and the use of our medicine management system. Students, trainees and other suitable working patterns will be considered. The post holder will be required to work cross sites to provide holiday and sickness cover within our outpatient Pharmacies in Stoke Mandeville, High Wycombe and Amersham Hospital.
Working for our organisation
Salary Highly competitive salary ranging from £24,960 to £26,227 for a 37.5 hour per week contract. (Salary will be based pro-rata for part time contracts)
Qualifications
GCSE Grade C/4 or equivalent in English, Science and Maths
Desired - NVQ2 in Pharmacy Services or GPhC accredited equivalent course.
Benefits
Your hard work and contributions will be recognised with the benefits offered via BHPL, including a discretionary annual bonus, 33 days annual leave (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro-rata, further career development and many more company benefits.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.
Person specification
Education, Professional Qualifications & Training
* GCSEs Grades A*- C (or equivalent) including Math and English.
* Experience in stock management.
* Experience in stock management.
* NVQ2 in Pharmacy Services
Experience
* Employ good interpersonal and communication skills with work colleagues and with customers.
* Ability to work as a team member and have the ability to work on own initiative, completing allocated work and ensuring staff rotas are complied with.
* Computer literate with good general keyboard skills. This includes using the pharmacy computer systems, including ordering, receiving, booking stocks into system and invoicing
Information Technology
* Excellent ability in using basic Microsoft Office applications including Microsoft Word and Excel.
Special Circumstances
* Able to travel to our other pharmacy sites (Amersham and High Wycombe) and venues for training.
* Participate in 1:6 back-up weekend rota for covering planned and unplanned absences.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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