Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 2/3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Includes weekends and bank holidays, up to 1 in 4 via rota.)
- Job ref
- 190-0490-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £23,615 - £25,674 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/07/2025
Employer heading

Pharmacy Support Worker (Aseptic Services)
NHS AfC: Band 2/3
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
An exciting career opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated, pharmacy support worker to join the technical services team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.
Currently housing 12 pharmaceutical isolators with another 3 due imminently within the cutting edge ATMP/clinical trial facility being developed within Weston Park, prospective candidates have a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of technical services in a large teaching hospital environment.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the biggest NHS Trusts in the country, offering a range of both general and specialist hospital services.
We provide nationally commissioned services and expertise in support of Early Phase Clinical Trials, and we are part of a leading national network for the development of cancer drugs of the future (Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre).
You will follow a structured internal competency based aseptic training program to enable you to assist with providing the highest standard of pharmaceutical service to our patients and ward staff. The successful candidate will commence employment on AFC Band 2 rising to a AFC Band 3 upon completion of ‘In house’ competencies and appropriate level 2 qualification approved by The General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
Main duties of the job
- To prepare documentation for batch medicinal products.
- To prepare trays according to the worksheet filling in relevant manufacturer, batch number and expiry date.
- To prepare, process and pack aseptically prepared medicinal products in accordance with approved worksheets and SOP’s.
- To process returned support medication on the JAC computer system.
- To undertake transfer disinfection of materials into and within the aseptic unit and the isolators.
- Visually inspect/volume accuracy check batches prepared in the aseptic unit to ensure they are free of particulate contamination and meet the required standards.
- To maintain adequate stocks both of drugs and disposables for the aseptic dispensing unit, sometimes in emergency situations – ordering using the computer system, checking stock levels against computer levels, stock rotation, and removal of any expired stock.
Please also note this vacancy is a training post so all applicants will start at Band 2 and upon completion of necessary skills and/ or training will progress to Band 3
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Education to GCSE at grade 4/C or above in English and Maths or equivalent qualifications/experience
- Have attained or be willing to work towards an appropriate Level 2 Qualification, approved by The General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable criteria
- Basic hygiene certificate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as part of a team
Desirable criteria
- NHS experience
- Formal induction and competency based training in an aseptic or production environment
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Basic computer keyboard skills
- Ability to work as part of a team organising own workload
- Effective Oral and Written communications skills
- Effective numerical skills
- Ability to accurately follow written and oral instructions
- Ability to lift, handle and transport materials safely
- Understand the issues in handling materials which are hazardous including cytotoxic drugs
- Ability to cope with potentially distressing patient information
- Ability to work in a restricted position in a pharmaceutical isolator
- Ability to work in areas requiring specialist protective clothing
Desirable criteria
- Health and Safety training, knowledge of handling hazardous chemicals according to local SOP and COSHH
- Moving and handling training
- Ability to understand the importance of hygiene standards
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Interest in Pharmacy Services
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Darren Greaves
- Job title
- specialist Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2265100
- Additional information
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