Pharmacy Assistant - Dispensary
| Posting date: | 05 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £24,465.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £24465.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9249-25-0651 |
Summary
Attend to all staff waiting at the pharmacy reception and deal with their requests in a pleasant and appropriate manner. Answer all telephone calls in a timely and prompt manner. Ensure optimum communication via teams or telephone with the wider department team. Monitor the dispensary email inbox for external unit requests and print / receive all in-patient and take-home medication requests, entering them onto the prescription tracking system, and passing the work onto the relevant person in a timely manner. Prioritising all prescriptions according to their urgency, updating information on the prescription tracking system as to the status of prescriptions as required. Responsible for ensuring that the prescription tracking system does not exceed our expected turnaround times. Identifying urgent work to an appropriate member of the pharmacy team to enable quick completion and transport to the ward. Co-ordinate the packing and sealing of all ward bags ready for the Pharmacy porter collection times, logging them off the prescription tracking system. Ensure all visitors to the department who are external to the Trust read, understand and adhere to the official information provided within the visitors logbook. andsign the Official visitors logbook. Please read attached JD for full information.