# Deputy Pharmacy Stores and Distribution Manager

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Sutton In Ashfield
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Estates and facilities
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-30T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16T14:31:07.788Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/Sutton_Ashfield/Sherwood_Forest_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8107354
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8107354?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you an ambitious Pharmacy Technician ready to take the next step in your leadership career? Do you thrive on driving innovation, improving services, and leading teams to deliver excellence?

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and forward-thinking Deputy Pharmacy Stores and Distribution Manager to join our Pharmacy team at King’s Mill Hospital. This is a pivotal leadership role within a newly established management structure, offering the opportunity to influence and develop medicines supply services across Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and external clients.

This is an exciting time to join us as we continue to modernise our pharmacy services, embrace digital innovation, and develop smarter ways of working to support outstanding patient care.

As a key member of our Pharmacy leadership team, you will play a vital role in ensuring the safe, efficient, and compliant procurement, storage, and distribution of medicines across the Trust.

If you're looking for an opportunity where you can lead, innovate, and make a lasting difference to pharmacy services and patient care, we'd love to hear from you.

### Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Significant post qualification hospital experience
- Significant supervisory experience
- Significant Stores / purchasing experience
- Significant experience of training and competency assessment
- Excellent communication and inter personal skills, including negotiating and persuasive skills

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- NVQ 3 in Pharmaceutical science or equivalent qualification accepted by General Pharmaceutical Council for registration purposes
- QCF Assessor award
- Supervisory qualification

**Desirable**

- Procurement qualification

### Further Training

**Essential**

- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- In house Recruitment and Selection training
- In house Appraisal training

### Knowledge Requirements

**Essential**

- Knowledge of COSHH regulations
- IT skills
- Specialist expert knowledge of pharmaceutical technical practice and experience to an equivalent degree level
- Knowledge of Wholesaler dealer’s Licence and Good distribution practice
- Knowledge of pharmacy ordering systems
- Knowledge of pharmacy distribution systems

**Desirable**

- In-patient dispensary procedures

### Contractual Requirements

**Essential**

- Regular Attendance
- Flexible approach to working hours, including weekends and bank holidays
- Ability to carry out the duties of the post as outlined in the job description

## Documents

- [benefits leaflet (pdf, 834.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2702)
- [application guide (pdf, 584.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2448)
- [our staff networks (pdf, 810.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2938)
- [deputy - person specification (pdf, 80.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10402420)
- [deputy stores manager job description (pdf, 424.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10402419)
- [nursing, midwifery & ahp strategy 25-28 (pdf, 2.6mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2492)

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