Senior Pharmacy Assistant | Barts Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 28 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £30,546 - £32,207 per annum inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, EC1A 7BE |
| Company: | Barts Health NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7768624/ |
Summary
Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Band 3
Are you looking for a new challenge & an opportunity to develop more from your role? We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and ambitious Senior Pharmacy Assistant to join our team at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
This is a fixed term band 3 position working on a rotational basis throughout various clinical areas of the site including inpatient dispensary, cardiac, oncology and respiratory. It will involve working closely with nurses and healthcare professionals, helping to maintain good stock control and promoting adherence to the safe and secure handling of medicines.
The post holder will be a team player and keen to continue to improve quality standards within the department. This position offers the opportunities to learn new skills whilst gaining experiencein a medicines management environment. Day to day duties will include the dispensing of medicines at ward level, transcribing of medicines and POD checking. You will be supported in your role to complete these aspects of the MOPs accreditation.
We welcome applications from pharmacy assistants who hold an NVQ level 2 qualification in pharmacy services. You must possess excellent interpersonal, problem solving and time management skills and be able to work with a wide range of professionals.
The key focus of this role is to provide safe and secure stock control within pharmacy inpatients and chemotherapy dose banding dispnesary, wards and clinical areas. They will assist in the supply and dispensing of prescribed items, receive and put away stock including dispensary consumables.
The post holder will provide an efficient and effective administrative service, operational and finance support, as well as undertake project work to enhance the service. The post holder will rotate throughout the site and clinical areas and department to gain experience
in all areas which includes support in a patient facing role, dispensaries and in the pharmacy distribution area to receive goods from across site, wholesalers and manufacturers.
The post holder will be expected to work with minimum day to day supervision and to use their initiative and be proactive when issues arise. Regular communication within the team needs to be maintained in relation to working practices, procedures and any changes. A
good working relationship with colleagues and other healthcare staff needs to be fostered and maintained at all times
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Feb 2026