Senior Pharmacy Assistant, Patient Services (SATO), Band 3
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- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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Role summary
This role involves working as a Senior Pharmacy Assistant within the Pharmacy Department, primarily based in the Dispensary. Key duties include dispensing various prescription types, performing final accuracy checks, and managing stock. The role may also involve ward visits for stock top-ups, transferring medicines, and reception duties. You will support Pharmacists and Technicians in providing comprehensive dispensing and distribution services.
Key responsibilities
- Dispensing for in-patients, out-patients, and patients going home, following standard operating procedures.
- Handing out completed outpatient prescriptions to patients or their representatives.
- Coordinating the supply of owed items, ensuring timely dispensing and transport, and resolving supply issues.
- Dispensing controlled drugs according to standard operating procedures.
- Completing a final accuracy check of dispensed items.
- Assisting at staff and patient reception areas, including meeting the public, receiving prescriptions, and handling payments.
Essential criteria
- Good level of literacy and numeracy.
- NVQ Level 2 in Pharmaceutical services or equivalent or evidence of willingness to work towards qualification.
- Previous pharmacy experience
- Understanding of written Standard Operating Procedures
- Ability to use computer, basic skills to operate electronic Pharmacy Systems
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Professional appearance
- Able to perform manual handling tasks
Desirable criteria
- Proven picking/dispensing accuracy
- Final Accuracy Checking Qualification or willingness to work towards
- Previous pharmacy experience working in a hospital
- Previous responsibility for carrying out ward stock top-up
- Recent experience of implementing change or quality improvement
- Capacity to work calmly under pressure
- Ability to work in a team or independently as necessary
- Motivated and reliable
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £25,760 – £27,476 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Pharmacy Assistant, Patient Services (SATO), Band 3
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
Senior Pharmacy Assistant, Patient Services (SATO), Band 3
- The Senior Pharmacy Assistant performs a wide range of duties within the Pharmacy Department, that help the Pharmacists & Technicians to provide a comprehensive dispensing and distribution service.
- Main duties are based in the Dispensary. It will include dispensing and final accuracy checking a variety of prescription types and electronic systems. Dependent on service need, it may include visits to wards to top-up stock, transfer medicines from pharmacy into patient bedside lockers, transfer medicines from a patient's previous ward to their current ward, filling orders for wards and departments, reception duties covering hospital staff and patients, computer ordering, and general house-keeping duties.
Main duties of the job
- Dispensing for In-patients, out-patients and patients that are going home, according to standard operating procedures.
- Handing out completed outpatient prescriptions to patients or their representatives, according to standard operating procedures
- Coordinating the supply of items that are owed to patients and ensuring they are dispensed & onward transport is arranged in a timely fashion. Checking order levels are ade
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