Job summary

Are you an experienced, highly skilled pharmacy assistant looking to take the next step into service and staff management?

Do you feel you have more to offer and want an opportunity to manage staff and be involved in service and staff development?

If so, you could be just what we are looking for to join our friendly team!

This is a Band 4 assistant post demonstrating our continued commitment to developing the assistant role within pharmacy.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacy assistant to join our Stores and Stock Distribution Team at the Alexandra Hospital, as part of the management team.

This will be a key role in the Stores and Stock Distribution services pharmacy team, managing the service and staff as deputy to the Stores and Stock Distribution manager.

You will be a strong confident team player, demonstrate professionalism at all times, act as a role model to all our assistants, with a strong commitment to staff training, and take responsibility for ensuring the prompt, effective receipt and distribution of medicines between all three Acute Hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

Under the direction of the Stores and Stock Distribution Manager, you will manage both the Lead Pharmacy Assistants in both the Stores and Stock distribution sections of the department, and a team of assistants.

Good communication skills will be required to ensure maintaining the high level of service we provide both to the wards and also with our other pharmacy site at Worcestershire Royal.

This is a full time role based within the pharmacy.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.