Senior Pharmacy Assistant, Patient Services (SATO), Band 3
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Job share
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 15/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role involves undertaking general pharmaceutical duties under supervision, assisting in providing a safe and effective Pharmacy service. Key responsibilities include dispensing various prescription types, performing final accuracy checks, and coordinating medicine supplies. The assistant will also handle reception duties, computer ordering, and general housekeeping tasks within the Pharmacy Department, potentially including ward stock top-ups.
Essential criteria
- Good level of literacy and numeracy.
- NVQ Level 2 in Pharmaceutical services or equivalent or evidence of willingness to work towards qualification.
Desirable criteria
- Proven picking/dispensing accuracy
- Final Accuracy Checking Qualification or willingness to work towards
- Previous pharmacy experience
- Previous pharmacy experience working in a hospital
- Previous responsibility for carrying out ward stock top-up
- Understanding of written Standard Operating Procedures
- Ability to use computer, basic skills to operate electronic Pharmacy Systems
- Recent experience of implementing change or quality improvement
- qualities
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Cheerful, friendly personality
- Honesty and integrity
- Professional appearance
- Able to perform manual handling tasks
- Capacity to work calmly under pressure
- Positive approach
- Ability to work in a team or independently as necessary
- Motivated and reliable
- Good level of literacy and numeracy.
- NVQ Level 2 in Pharmaceutical services or equivalent or evidence of willingness to work towards qualification.
- Proven picking/dispensing accuracy
- Final Accuracy Checking Qualification or willingness to work towards
- Previous pharmacy experience
- Previous pharmacy experience working in a hospital
- Previous responsibility for carrying out ward stock top-up
- Understanding of written Standard Operating Procedures
- Ability to use computer, basic skills to operate electronic Pharmacy Systems
- Recent experience of implementing change or quality improvement
- qualities
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Cheerful, friendly personality
- Honesty and integrity
- Professional appearance
- Able to perform manual handling tasks
- Capacity to work calmly under pressure
- Positive approach
- 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 15 September 2026
Job summary
Senior Pharmacy Assistant, Patient Services (SATO), Band 3
- Undertake general pharmaceutical duties under the supervision of a Section Manager or deputy, assisting in the provision of a safe and effective Pharmacy service in line with current policies, procedures and legal requirements.
- 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
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