Senior Dispensary Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 14 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,690.00 to £62,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 August 2025 |
| Location: | Stockton-on-Tees, TS19 8PE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9345-25-0475 |
Summary
See full job description/person specification attached. Lead on all aspects of medicines optimisation and medication use within the pharmacy dispensary services, supporting medical and nursing teams, as well as allied health professionals in the safe and effective use of medicines. Manage and deliver services in accordance with relevant professional, ethical and legal standards and locally agreed policies, procedures and guidelines. Make essential contributions to the delivery of the daily workflow in the inpatient dispensaries, ensuring outstanding quality services for patients, hospital staff and other service users. Co-ordinate and participate in the day to day management of the pharmacy dispensaries, contributing to professional, clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions received into the pharmacy, providing advice to service users, leading on investigations of errors and implementing service improvements when necessary. Working within and leading a small pharmacy team, use appropriate skill mix within the team to ensure that key performance metrics are met and the service runs safely and efficiently. The modernisation, improvement and development of medicines supply, as an aspect of medicines management, is the key to achieving our vision for the future of pharmacy services. We will achieve this through the extensive use of digital technologies and IT solutions, and by developing and valuing our colleagues. This post leads on and delivers pharmacy services via the Trust dispensaries, providing error management, intervention feedback, procedure formulation and training.