Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Stores and Distribution
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8.30am-5pm)
- Job ref
- 214-CSTO-7206061
- Employer
- Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- King's Mill Hospital
- Town
- Sutton-in-Ashfield
- Salary
- £24,625 - £25,674 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Pharmacy Assistant Stores and Distribution
NHS AfC: Band 3
Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.
Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic and highly motivated Pharmacy Assistant? We are looking for a dedicated individual to join our dynamic pharmacy team at King's Mill Hospital. As a vital part of our Stores and Distribution area, you'll play a key role in ensuring the seamless flow of medications to support patient care.
Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with clinical pharmacy colleagues on wards to provide an efficient supply service.
- Fulfil orders for wards and departments, both manually and via our state-of-the-art Automated Dispensing Robot.
- Manage all aspects of stock control, including the receipt of medicine requirements for the Trust.
- Operate the Automated Dispensing Robot to store and retrieve stock, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
At King's Mill Hospital, we believe that happy colleagues deliver better care. Joining our team means becoming part of a supportive and inclusive environment that prioritizes your wellbeing. We provide ample opportunities for professional development and career progression!
Main duties of the job
To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached.
Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of procedures for stores and distribution
- IT skills, including the management of files Accurate keyboard skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Automated Dispensing systems
- Knowledge of Good Distribution Practice, to comply with requirements of MHRA Wholesaler dealer’s licence
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GCSE Maths Grade C or equivalent
- GCSE English Language Grade C or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- IT qualification
- NVQ level 2 Pharmacy
Further Training
Essential criteria
- In-house training programme, including distribution, goods receipt and returns validations
- In-house Manual Handling training
- In-house training in the handling of cytotoxic spillage
- In-house training in the use of relevant pharmacy computer programs
Desirable criteria
- Customer care
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of stock control
- Experience of team working
- Ability to work alone
- Proven oral and written communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Housekeeping skills
- Filing and record keeping
- Customer/patient care
- Pharmacy experience
Contractual
Essential criteria
- Flexible approach to working hours
- Regular attendance during the required hours
- Weekend and bank holiday working
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Mandy Hartley
- Job title
- Pharmacy Stores and Distribution Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01623 622515
- Additional information
ext 3164
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