Band 3 Senior Pharmacy Support Worker – Procurement & Stores
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role involves supervising and training a team of support workers in procurement and distribution within the pharmacy. The post holder will assist with receiving and checking deliveries, assembling IV fluids and stock medicines for delivery, and managing returns. The job requires accurate and efficient work to ensure a high-quality service to patients and staff.
Key responsibilities
- Receive and check pharmacy deliveries, ensuring documentation is correct.
- Unpack deliveries, record receipt of goods, and input data into the pharmacy computer system.
- Identify and quarantine unlicensed products upon receipt.
- Remove and dispose of goods no longer fit for use when authorised.
- Issue goods against requisition lists to wards and outlying areas.
- Issue intravenous fluids and other bulky products to wards and departments, involving lifting boxes up to 10-15kg.
Essential criteria
- oHolds an NVQ Pharmacy Service Level 2
- Demonstrate Pharmacy Computer and IT Skills
- Demonstrated ability to accurately complete complex routine and nonroutine tasks as indicated in the job description
- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust shared commitments
- Able to manage own workload
- Appreciation of need to maintain confidentiality and security
- Experience of stock management and understanding of the principles of stock control
Desirable criteria
- Experience Portfolio demonstrating competence of previous and current pharmacy practice skills, knowledge and CPD.
- Post qualification experience of hospital pharmacy
- Knowledge of the GPHc Standards of conduct, ethics and performance
- Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns
- Able to work without supervision
- Enthusiastic and shows initiative
- Able to resolve conflict
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £30,630 – £32,346 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 9d ago · Closes in 8d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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Job summary
The post holder will support the supervision and training of a team of support workers whorotate through procurement and distribution. The post holder will assist in good receivingduties and the general supply of medicines, receive and check deliveries of pharmacy stock,assemble I.V. fluids and stock medicines for delivery to wards/departments and assist in thereturn of medicines. The post holder will consistently work in an accurate, effective andefficient manner to support the provision of a high-quality service to patients, trust staff anddepartments.
Main duties of the job
To receive deliveries into the Pharmacy, ensuring that the driver deliverydocumentation is checked as correct before accepting the delivery. Some deliveriesarrive on pallets, which may be up to 500kg in weight and require the use of handlingequipment (Pallet Truck).2.To unpack deliveries and record receipt of the goods in accordance with standardprocedures, confirming all batch numbers and expiry dates with invoices, input thedata on the pharmacy computer system and put the stock away to maintain theefficiency of the pharmacy stock system.3.When goods are received to identify unlicensed products and to place them intoquarantine awaiting approval for use
4.To remove from stock, goods no longer fit for use and when authorised to disposeof such goods.5.To issue against requisition lists g
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