Lead Pharmacy Assistant - Dispensary (Deputy Dispensary Manager)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a new Band 4 Lead Pharmacy Assistant role, acting as Deputy Dispensary Manager, within the Worcestershire Royal Hospital's dispensary team. The successful candidate will manage senior Pharmacy Assistants and Pharmacy Technicians, ensuring efficient and accurate medication processing. This role involves operational leadership, staff training, and contributing to service development. It requires an enthusiastic, highly motivated individual with strong communication skills and a commitment to staff development.
Essential criteria
- GCSE (or equivalent) grade C/4 or above in Maths, Science and English (all 3 are required)
- Level 2 in pharmacy technical services (previously NVQ Level 2) or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
- Supervisory or team leadership course
- Proven, recent and relevant experience of successfully delivering technical pharmacy services as a Pharmacy Assistant in a hospital or community setting.
- Proven experience of accurately dispensing medication.
- Experience of working in a team.
- Experience in dealing with patients, healthcare professionals the public and challenging situations
- Experience of how to deal with a range of routine and non-routine activities, work allocation, problem solving for a team and area of work, answering queries, progress chasing, and task related problem solving.
- Experience of operating/utilising an electronic prescription tracking system
- Proven, recent experience of successfully delivering technical pharmacy services as a Senior Pharmacy Assistant in a hospital/retail setting.
- Experience leading a team and facilitating service delivery and Training
- Experience in management of staff including allocation of workload and personnel issues
- Skills and knowledge
- Skilled at dispensing medicines where accuracy is of the utmost importance
- Standard key-board skills for using the Pharmacy Computer System, and other software, including Microsoft Office
- Able to prioritise workload.
- Able to communicate clearly and effectively using a variety of methods (written/verbal/presentation) with a wide range of people, and have the ability to record details accurately.
- Able to carry out verbal and written instructions accurately.
- Self-motiving and able to motivate others.
- Able to work flexibly when needed depending on the service requirements.
- Able to use initiative but understand the limits of responsibility.
- Understanding of the importance of maintaining patient confidentiality.
- GCSE (or equivalent) grade C/4 or above in Maths, Science and English (all 3 are required)
- Level 2 in pharmacy technical services (previously NVQ Level 2) or equivalent.
- Supervisory or team leadership course
- Proven, recent and relevant experience of successfully delivering technical pharmacy services as a Pharmacy Assistant in a hospital or community setting.
- Proven experience of accurately dispensing medication.
- Experience of working in a team.
- Experience in dealing with patients, healthcare professionals the public and challenging situations
- Experience of how to deal with a range of routine and non-routine activities, work allocation, problem solving for a team and area of work, answering queries, progress chasing, and task related problem solving.
- Experience of operating/utilising an electronic prescription tracking system
- Proven, recent experience of successfully delivering technical pharmacy services as a Senior Pharmacy Assistant in a hospital/retail setting.
- Experience leading a team and facilitating service delivery and Training
- Experience in management of staff including allocation of workload and personnel issues
- Skills and knowledge
- Skilled at dispensing medicines where accuracy is of the utmost importance
- Standard key-board skills for using the Pharmacy Computer System, and other software, including Microsoft Office
- Able to prioritise workload.
- Able to communicate clearly and effectively using a variety of methods (written/verbal/presentation) with a wide range of people, and have the ability to record details accurately.
- Able to carry out verbal and written instructions accurately.
- Self-motiving and able to motivate others.
- Able to work flexibly when needed depending on the service requirements.
- Able to use initiative but understand the limits of responsibility.
- Understanding of the importance of maintaining patient confidentiality.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Lead Pharmacy Assistant - Dispensary (Deputy Dispensary Manager)
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an experienced, highly skilled pharmacy assistant looking to take the next step into service and staff management?
Do you feel you have more to offer and want an opportunity to manage staff and be involved in service and staff development?
If so, you could be just what we are looking for to join our friendly team!
This is a new Band 4 assistant post demonstrating our continued commitment to developing the assistant role within pharmacy.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacy assistant to join our dispensary team at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital, as part of the management team.
This will be a key role in the Operational Services pharmacy team, managing the service and staff as deputy to the Dispensary Manager.
You will be a strong confident team player, demonstrate professionalism at all times, act as a role model to all our pharmacy assistants and pharmacy technicians, with a strong commitment to staff training, and take responsibility for ensuring efficient running of the dispensary.
Main duties of the job
Under the direction of the Dispensary Manager, you will manage the senior Pharmacy Assistants and Pharmacy Technicians in the dispensary to ensure work is processed
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