Job summary
- Main area
- Bank Pharmacy Assistant
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - Bank
- Job ref
- 213-BANK0202
- Employer
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's College Hospital
- Town
- Denmark Hill
- Salary
- £13.68 - £17.72 incl holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 07/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Pharmacy Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 2
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.8 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.
Job overview
The staff bank are seeking to recruit Band 2 Pharmacy Assistants onto the staff bank.
Joining King’s Staff Bank is a great opportunity to work for us. We offer a range of temporary opportunities to gain experience in a hospital setting or to simply work in a flexible way that suits your lifestyle.
Main duties of the job
- To ensure the safe, effective and economical use of drugs for all patients in the Trust.
- To be able to dispense inpatient, outpatient and discharge medication accurately.
- To contribute to wider policies that has an impact within the pharmacy department and across the Trust.
- To support the Dispensary Manager by contributing to the development of the Dispensary Services.
Working for our organisation
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Dispensary
The post holder will assist the dispensary team in the delivery of the day to day activities in the dispensary. They will carry out duties in accordance with departmental policies and procedures. The post holder is primarily responsible for dispensing discharge and inpatient medication, as well as outpatient medication if based at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH); and other “housekeeping” duties.
Aseptics
The post holder will assist in the preparation and dispensing of aseptically produced products in isolators. The post holder will assist with the daily monitoring and cleaning of isolators and the monitoring of the clean room. The post holder will assist with the ordering of drugs and components.
Stores
The post includes general duties within the Pharmacy distribution service including receiving goods, carrying out ward top ups, and issuing stock to wards, carried out under the supervision of the Pharmacy Distribution Services Manager.
More details can be found on the attached Job Description
Person specification
Shortlisting
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services
- Minimum of 6 months NHS Pharmacy experience
- Be able to communicate effectively in both written and verbal formats with staff and patients
- Experience of dispensing medication
- Be able to participate in frequent light physical effort for several short periods
- Be able to sit for data input and stand for dispensing
- Be able to work in a busy demand-led service with occasional exposure to verbal aggression from patients, be able to work on the ward, and in a busy Stores environment
- Able to participate in a 7 day operational model including working weekends and late shifts at either Denmark Hill or PRUH sites
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Paul Bains
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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