Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 179-7607296-C
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/12/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Aseptic Services
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
This is a great opportunity to develop your pharmacy career and make a real difference to the lives of those who use our service.
Our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We are dedicated to delivering the best quality and safest care to local communities and need dedicated and skilled people to help us achieve this.
The majority of your time will be spent within the aseptic unit preparing chemotherapy and monoclonal therapy for the Trusts cancer patients.
Time will also be spent supporting the dispensary team and distribution team with the supply of medicine to wards and departments, inpatients and outpatients.
As a candidate you will have a genuine passion for patient care. You will be committed and dedicated and have a desire to work as part of a friendly and supportive team in a fast-paced environment.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the preparation and supply of parenteral cancer treatments within the Trust. This will encompass all aspects of supply of aseptically prepared products, from worksheet and label generation, tray checking to product preparation. The treatments will be aseptically prepared in isolators using aseptic technique and Good Manufacturing Practice.
All supportive oral medication will also be supplied by yourself.
You will also be expected to use your dispensing skills to help in dispensary and ward distribution.
Please refer to the detailed job description for key tasks.
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job summary:
In conjunction with the Principal Pharmacy Technician – Aseptic Services, to assist in the provision of a high quality, patient focused aseptic service. To ensure that all products are aseptically prepared following standard operating procedures (SOPs), Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), and guidelines detailed in the ‘Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Distributors and Quality Assurance of Aseptic Preparation Services.
Please see job description attached to view full responsibilities of role.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC Pharmaceutical Science, NVQ Level 2 Pharmacy Services or equivalent
- GCSE in English Language, Mathematics and Sciences (Grade 9 - 4 or A*- C)
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a pharmacy environment.
- Experience of working in an aseptic compounding unit
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Expected to support members of the public and other health care workers in a professional manner
- Ability to supervise less experienced pharmacy assistants and other staff as appropriate
- Expected to have an all round knowledge of the technical aspects of hospital Pharmacy and a broad outlook of pharmaceutical issues
- Evidence of self-motivated professional development
- Attention to detail and ability to take responsibility for own practice.
- Able to make decisions independently within scope of competence.
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Effective teamwork.
- Good communications skills (both verbal and written).
- Ability to work in an organised and calm fashion in a busy environment.
- A flexible approach to working hours and duties.
- Positive approach towards personal / self-development.
- Familiar with standard IT software
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
- Shaun Chaplin
- Job title
- Specialist Pharmacy Technician Aseptic Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01284713942
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