Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AFC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-7269770
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 per annum-pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Pharmacy Support Worker Higher Level Aseptic Services-Pharmacy Lister
NHS AFC: Band 3
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Pharmacy Support Worker who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The post holder will have excellent organisational and interpersonal skills to work in our busy manufacturing unit within the pharmacy department at the Lister Hospital.
We have a state-of-the-art unit that has undergone extensive refurbishment. This is an exciting time for you to join our team and work in a brand-new facility.
The Lister Pharmacy Aseptic team is a growing and progressive team that makes personalised medicines, mainly injectable chemotherapy doses, in clean room environments for our Trust's patients.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to follow strict standard operating procedures in the preparation of drug products.
You will partake in the aseptic preparation of medicines as well as assembling and transferring drugs and consumables into the clean rooms.
You will be creating documentation using pharmacy software systems.
The successful candidate is required to be able to work methodically and have rigorous attention to detail. You must be willing to meet the strict personal requirements for clean room working and be dexterous to undertake aseptic preparation, including the manipulation and use of needles and syringes.
In house training and accreditation will be provided to achieve the required level of competency; on-going validation of aseptic technique is a requirement of the post.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Level 2 Science and Manufacturing course or equivalent
- Completion of aseptic accreditations
- In process volume checking accreditation
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous pharmacy or NHS experience
- Proven Supervisory skills
- Working with Customers
Desirable criteria
- Manual Handling Experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous pharmacy hospital experience
- experience of dealing with members of the public in a service capacity
Desirable criteria
- 1 year working as a pharmacy support worker
- knowledge of prescription charges and exemptions
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good verbal communication skills
- Able to use own initiative
- Able to plan own time
- Able to work as part of a team
- Able to demonstrate accuracy in your work
- Able to train/coach/teach tasks to other team members
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to perform simple calculations e.g. volume to draw up doses; pass calculation test
- Able to use MS applications
- Knowledge of GMP
- Have a good understanding of stock management
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Calm under pressure
- Reliable
- Methodical
- Helpful
- Flexible
- Organised
- Be able to lift small boxes
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Role model our Trust values every day
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Low
- Job title
- Chief Technician Technical Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Rachel Low 01438 285394
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