Senior Pharmacy Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic Senior Pharmacy Assistant looking for a management career within the Pharmacy Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You will supervise and guide Pharmacy Assistants and Technicians, ensuring quality pharmacy services including dispensing and distribution of medicines. The position involves planning and managing workloads, as well as training and development of staff, including line management responsibilities. Full training will be provided to support your transition into this role.
Key responsibilities
- Supervise, provide guidance and direction to Pharmacy Assistants and Pharmacy Technician Team within the designated area.
- Be responsible for ensuring that a range of quality Pharmacy Services are delivered to patients and other service users to include dispensing, and distribution of medicines.
- Plan and manage own workload and that of the team to ensure services are delivered in a cost effective and operationally efficient manner.
- Be responsible for training and development including appraisal and competency assessments.
- Line manage Pharmacy Assistants.
- Support training and development of other staff; maintaining quality and standards by contributing to the development and implementation of new services, processes and procedures.
Essential criteria
- 2 GCSE Passes Grade C or above (or equivalent) (Maths and English)
- Level 2 Certificate in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Support Staff (Qualification) or equivalent Or A General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) accredited support staff dispensing training course Or working towards either of the above
- Experience of working in pharmacy
- Understanding of current pharmacy and NHS issues.
- Knowledge of IT and Computer systems
- Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership/ Management Certificate
- 4 GCSE Passes Grade C or above (or equivalent) (Maths and English & science)
- Experience of using Ascribe and ARX
- Experience in Supervisory Management and Team Leadership
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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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Pharmacy Assistant
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic Pharmacy Assistant looking for a career in management? Full training will be delivered to support you make the transition.
If you are keen to join a forward thinking pharmacy department supporting patient care we would love to hear from you.
The Pharmacy Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to be able to offer a vacancy for a Senior Pharmacy Assistant.
As an employer we have earned a reputation for focusing on the development of our staff and for being an organisation people are proud to work for.
The wellbeing of staff is important to us; we have a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team who provide support on a range of topics, run fitness classes and organise mindfulness sessions
Main duties of the job
We are one of the largest trusts in the country, providing district general hospital services to people in Preston and Chorley and specialist care (Neurology, Neurosurgery, Burns and Plastics, Oncology and Renal Medicine) to 1.5m people across Lancashire and South Cumbria in addition we are proud to be the regional Major Trauma Centre providing life and limb saving treatment for patients throughout Lancashire and South Cumbria.
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