# Pharmacy Assistant - Pharmacy@Bucks > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/pharmacy-assistant-pharmacybucks/f3340353-1ab9-47da-bc08-ccf64dcb2d47 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/pharmacy-assistant-pharmacybucks/f3340353-1ab9-47da-bc08-ccf64dcb2d47.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** Aylesbury - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 2 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 per annum ( pro rata for part time) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-26T11:42:46.184Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Buckinghamshire/Aylesbury/Buckinghamshire_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8036270 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8036270?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced dispenser from community pharmacy looking for a role with a difference? Would you like a change of setting and the desire to develop your knowledge in a Hospital Outpatient Setting? Or are you thinking about a career in Pharmacy and looking for your first Hospital based role as a Pharmacy Assistant? Outpatient Hospital Pharmacy may just be the place for you. Discover what it’s like to work as an Outpatient Pharmacy Assistant, where you will have ample opportunity to develop and utilise your existing knowledge as well as learn new skills to provide a safe and efficient pharmacy service to patients. Pharmacy@Bucks is an innovative Outpatient Dispensing service that combines the knowledge of a community and a hospital Pharmacy to provide exemplary service to all our patients. Working in close partnership with the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT), we thrive to provide a customer focused clinical service to all patients and Healthcare Professionals alike. ### Main duties of the job All Outpatient Pharmacies across Amersham, Stoke Mandeville and High Wycombe are run by Buckinghamshire Health Projects Ltd (BHPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Pharmacy@Bucks provides dispensing services from outpatient prescriptions issued by BHT and advice to BHT staff and visitors, with the option to provide Over the counter (OTC) medicines in the near future. Since the start of Pharmacy@Bucks, we have seen the professional development of our keen staff members, ranging from Pharmacy Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians and Accuracy checking Pharmacy Technicians to Pharmacist Managers and Lead Pharmacists. We would like to welcome two keen Pharmacy Assistants to our ever-growing team with a passion to learn, develop and grow in their role. This unique role offers the chance to be part of a growing team within our outpatient Pharmacies at Amersham, High Wycombe and/or Stoke Mandeville Hospital with potential to work cross-site. This will enable you to develop your career in a fast-paced environment, whilst providing a customer focused and critical service to patients. You will be supported with the right training to ensure that you have the skills and knowledge required for working in a hospital setting. The chosen candidate will receive in-house training, including labelling and dispensing of Outpatient prescriptions, ordering medication and the use of our medicine management system. Students, trainees and other suitable working patterns will be considered. The post holder will be required to work cross sites to provide holiday and sickness cover within our outpatient Pharmacies in Stoke Mandeville, High Wycombe and Amersham Hospital. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert. If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on \[email protected\] quoting the vacancy reference number. ## Job Details Are you an experienced dispenser from community pharmacy looking for a role with a difference? Would you like a change of setting and the desire to develop your knowledge in a Hospital Outpatient Setting? Or are you thinking about a career in Pharmacy and looking for your first Hospital based role as a Pharmacy Assistant? Outpatient Hospital Pharmacy may just be the place for you. Discover what it’s like to work as an Outpatient Pharmacy Assistant, where you will have ample opportunity to develop and utilise your existing knowledge as well as learn new skills to provide a safe and efficient pharmacy service to patients. Pharmacy@Bucks is an innovative Outpatient Dispensing service that combines the knowledge of a community and a hospital Pharmacy to provide exemplary service to all our patients. Working in close partnership with the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT), we thrive to provide a customer focused clinical service to all patients and Healthcare Professionals alike. ## Job Description All Outpatient Pharmacies across Amersham, Stoke Mandeville and High Wycombe are run by Buckinghamshire Health Projects Ltd (BHPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Pharmacy@Bucks provides dispensing services from outpatient prescriptions issued by BHT and advice to BHT staff and visitors, with the option to provide Over the counter (OTC) medicines in the near future. Since the start of Pharmacy@Bucks, we have seen the professional development of our keen staff members, ranging from Pharmacy Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians and Accuracy checking Pharmacy Technicians to Pharmacist Managers and Lead Pharmacists. We would like to welcome two keen Pharmacy Assistants to our ever-growing team with a passion to learn, develop and grow in their role. This unique role offers the chance to be part of a growing team within our outpatient Pharmacies at Amersham, High Wycombe and/or Stoke Mandeville Hospital with potential to work cross-site. This will enable you to develop your career in a fast-paced environment, whilst providing a customer focused and critical service to patients. You will be supported with the right training to ensure that you have the skills and knowledge required for working in a hospital setting. The chosen candidate will receive in-house training, including labelling and dispensing of Outpatient prescriptions, ordering medication and the use of our medicine management system. Students, trainees and other suitable working patterns will be considered. The post holder will be required to work cross sites to provide holiday and sickness cover within our outpatient Pharmacies in Stoke Mandeville, High Wycombe and Amersham Hospital. ## Responsibilities For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert. If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on \[email protected\] quoting the vacancy reference number. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Employ good interpersonal and communication skills with work colleagues and with customers. - Ability to work as a team member and have the ability to work on own initiative, completing allocated work and ensuring staff rotas are complied with. - Computer literate with good general keyboard skills. This includes using the pharmacy computer systems, including ordering, receiving, booking stocks into system and invoicing ### Special Circumstances **Essential** - Able to travel to our other pharmacy sites (Amersham and High Wycombe) and venues for training. - Participate in 1:6 back-up weekend rota for covering planned and unplanned absences. ### Information Technology **Essential** - Excellent ability in using basic Microsoft Office applications including Microsoft Word and Excel. ### Education, Professional Qualifications & Training **Essential** - GCSEs Grades A*- C (or equivalent) including Math and English. - Experience in stock management. **Desirable** - NVQ2 in Pharmacy Services ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 197.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10324335) - [person specification (pdf, 150.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10324336) - [additional information (pdf, 142.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10324352) - [living in buckinghamshire (pdf, 2.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1846) - [welcome to buckinghamshire nhs trust (pdf, 430.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1845) ## 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.