# Higher Level Pharmacy Support Worker - Peterborough

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Peterborough City Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Pharmacy assistant
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-04T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-21T14:20:38.360Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Peterborough/North_West_Anglia_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Higher_Level_Pharmacy_Support_Worker/Higher_Level_Pharmacy_Support_Worker-v8319862
- **Employer website:** https://www.nwangliaft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you looking to further your career in a specialist area? Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) is a fast-paced specialism, with new therapies regularly coming into use.

We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate to join our small and dynamic Pharmacy team. You must possess a full NVQ level II in Pharmacy Services or equivalent dispensing qualification.

Teamwork is essential to this role so you will be happy working at close quarters with colleagues in an environment that can be pressured and sometimes stressful. A desire to go the extra mile for patients is central to the ethos of our team, so you will have a caring approach and excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as being motivated to look for service improvements.

*Please Note the advert may close sooner than the date advertised due to levels of interest, closing of the advert will happen with no notice*

### Main duties of the job

Provide technical assistance and support to the pharmacy teams across the pharmacy service, ensuring a safe, accurate and timely approach in all tasks undertaken.

Support the effectiveness of the technical aspects of the medicines management service and the safe and accurate dispensing of prescriptions.

Assist in the accurate receipt, storage, supply, issue and distribution of stock pharmaceuticals, including intravenous fluids to wards, departments and external customers.

Participate in the supply of medicines in the form of in and out-patient dispensing, including accurate prescription receipt, labelling and assembly, and ensuring prompt completion and distribution, in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you are interested in this position then please read the full job description and person specification attached to this vacancy

### 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.

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- Appreciation of confidentiality issues
- Ability remain calm and work effectively under pressure

### Key Skills & Abilities

**Essential**

- Good customer skills
- Ability to work with minimal supervision, using initiative and working to departmental Standard Operating Procedures
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing
- Ability to prioritise own workload effectively
- Ability to deal with staff, patients and their relatives in a sympathetic manner and within competency

### Knowledge & Experience

**Essential**

- Computer literate (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Knowledge of current medicines legislation

**Desirable**

- Understanding of pharmacy stock control computer system
- Previous experience of working in a hospital pharmacy
- Experience of working in an aseptic unit

### Education & Qualifications

**Essential**

- Level 2 pharmacy qualification approved by the GPHC or equivalent to include dispensing modules or equivalent dispensing course
- Commitment to continuing professional development

## Documents

- [staff benefits (pdf, 576.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2886)
- [job description (pdf, 696.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10641334)
- [living our values (pdf, 260.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1865)
- [person specification (pdf, 248.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10641335)
- [we are team nwangliaft (pdf, 8.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2745)
- [information for candidates (pdf, 5.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2788)

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