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Pharmacy Assistant

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Posting date: 28 January 2026
Salary: £14.21 per hour
Additional salary information: £14.21 an hour
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 27 April 2026
Location: Watford, WD18 0HB
Company: NHS Jobs
Job type: Contract
Job reference: M0042-87218

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Summary

To contribute to replenishment activities across clinical areas, supporting scheduled replenishment cycles and ensuring automated dispensing equipment is used accurately to maintain availability of items required for patient care. To process electronic requests within internal inventory platforms, ensuring timely progression in line with agreed priorities and logistics schedules for both internal services and external partners. To receive incoming consignments at designated intake points, checking contents against documentation for correctness, condition, and volume, and placing items into allocated locations using effective rotation methods to maintain usability. To support inventory integrity through regular checks and monitoring, including identifying shortfalls, isolating unsuitable items, and contributing to investigative actions where variances are identified, while maintaining a clean, orderly, and secure working environment. To assist with environmental monitoring and compliance activities, including daily recording exercises and participation in mapping programmes, ensuring storage conditions consistently meet professional, regulatory, and local standards at all times. To take part in service enhancement, training, and development activities, including audit data gathering, completion of mandatory learning, supporting new starters and learners, adhering to procedural guidance, and working flexibly to accommodate evolving service needs such as varied working patterns and operational changes.

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