Pharmacy Assistant

Bristol Hospital | Pharmacy | Permanent | Full Time

Up to £26,250 per annum, depending on skills and experience.

37.5 hours per week

Build a brighter future while you’re helping us build a healthier nation. At Nuffield Health, our approach is to fully integrate medicines into a personalised pathway of patient care. That means you’ll benefit from a way of working that allows you to do the best job you can. It’s everything you need to grow your career. It starts with you.

As a Pharmacy Assistant at our Wessex Hospital, you with have NVQ2 or equivalent in pharmacy services and ideally have previous hospital experience. It’s also important that you have excellent communication and people skills, as you’ll be working closely with our patients and a variety of clinical staff. 

As our Pharmacy Assistant, you will:

• Help monitor and maintain stock levels within the Pharmacy department
• Assist in the procurement of pharmaceutical stock for pharmacy and other departments using appropriate electronic systems
• Support the pharmacist in dispensing controlled drugs
• To participate in stock takes within the pharmacy department quarterly
• To date check as required
• To provide general administrative support to the department
• To help with general dispensing as required

To succeed as a Pharmacy Assistant, you will:

• Have previous pharmacy experience
• Hold a Buttercups (or equivalent) qualification in Pharmacy Services
• Have excellent people skills, as you will be working closely both with patients and the wider hospital team
• Have excellent computer skills
• To be able to work as part of a team, and equally as confident lone working
• Be motivated to provide a high quality service
• To be passionate and enthusiastic in their role
• To show initiative

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Bristol Hospital 

Situated in the beautiful village of Clifton, Nuffield Health Bristol Hospital - The Chesterfield, has a long and distinguished history of looking after the people of Bristol. With the latest equipment, and designed to meet the needs of all of our patients, we are constantly developing our services to ensure our patients receive the finest quality treatment. A 30 private bed hospital which houses 3 digital theatres and combines leading-edge clinical facilities with an outstanding customer experience

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it’s a good idea to apply right away to ensure you’re considered for this role.

It starts with you.