# Pharmacy Assistant - Aseptic Unit > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/pharmacy-assistant-aseptic-unit/ad20576c-88d5-461d-9efc-b159b554d011 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/pharmacy-assistant-aseptic-unit/ad20576c-88d5-461d-9efc-b159b554d011.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Preston Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacy assistant - **Grade:** Band 2 - **Salary:** £25,272 Per Annum, Pro Rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-21T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-07T13:16:02.969Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Preston/Lancashire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8073523 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8073523?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you good at practical tasks? Would you like a role in the NHS that prepares medicines for patients? Here we will fully train you to become Aseptic Unit Pharmacy Assistant where your rewarding role will be to prepare a range of injectable medicines. You will work as a member of a friendly, highly skilled team of people all working to deliver products that are consistently produced and controlled to a particular quality standard (Good Manufacturing Practice GMP). You will have good literacy and numeracy skills in addition to good dexterity to handle syringes and needles for accurate measurements of injections, working to procedures at all times. There are opportunities for further training and development. Pharmacy experience is not essential as full training for the role is provided You will be required to work one evening per week until 7pm and bank holidays on a rota. ### Main duties of the job The role will involve the preparation of a wide range of injectable products such as; chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, antibiotics. To do this requires the use of specialist equipment and working within clean rooms. Adhering to strict clothing and personal hygiene procedures is essential and you will have to meet the highest standards of discipline, attention to detail and clean room behaviours. Medicines are manufactured under the Trust’s ‘Specials’ Licence granted by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The Manufacturing units operate under the name of Preston Pharmaceuticals (PP), and include Non Sterile Medicines Manufacture, Radiopharmacy and Aseptic Services, and an Extemporaneous Dispensing Service. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Duties will include but not be limited to: - To communicate routine Information effectively; verbally, in writing and where appropriate using electronic formats, with colleagues and internal staff on the manufacture of sterile products. - Use technical and analytical skills to support several quality assurance aspects of the service. - You will be required to follow a work plan but also to work flexibly to support the changing priorities within the department on a day to day basis. - To operate Aseptic production and office equipment. Move and handle equipment and materials using agreed procedures - Contribute to error monitoring - Following Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and documented Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS) at all times the post holder will undertake a range of duties involved in the Aseptic manufacture of pharmaceutical products, including: Cleanroom gowning and cleaning (cleanrooms and equipment), labelling, measuring, calculating and compounding What this Opportunity means: - Full and extensive training - A friendly and safe working environment (See our Trust Values) - Staff support, Health and Wellbeing, occupational Health ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Awareness of Good Manufacturing and Laboratory Practice and the regulations surrounding Pharmaceutical Manufacture. - COSHH Regulations and Health & Safety at Work Act. - Experience of following written instructions **Desirable** - Experience of Pharmaceutical Manufacture in either a hospital or industrial environment or aseptic dispensing services. - Knowledge of clean room design and functioning - Use of Computer systems for data management and storage ### Qualifications **Essential** - GCSE minimum grade c in English and Maths or equivalent **Desirable** - NVQ 2 in pharmaceutical science or equivalent ## Documents - [what we can offer you (pdf, 6.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2464) - [creating your best application (pdf, 6.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2433) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 760.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10364966) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.