# Pharmacy Assistant (Progression Post) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/pharmacy-assistant-progression-post/4e7e06a1-41aa-44bb-af7b-cf63a9336cb7 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/pharmacy-assistant-progression-post/4e7e06a1-41aa-44bb-af7b-cf63a9336cb7.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Darlington - **Region:** North East and Yorkshire - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacy assistant - **Grade:** Band 2 - **Salary:** £25,272 - £27,476 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-21T08:12:41.371Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Durham/York/Tees_Esk_Wear_Valleys_NHS_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8169908 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8169908?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.tewv.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview TEWV pharmacy team are recruiting a dispensing assistant to join our pharmacy at Foss Park hospital, York. This new post will allow the successful candidate to progress from a band 2 to a band 3 senior pharmacy assistant after completing the relevant criteria required. The successful applicant will be an exceptional team player with good communication and interpersonal skills who are enthusiastic and committed to join our team.  Ideally applicants will have previous experience in working within a pharmacy as a dispensing assistant but this is not essential.  Applicants own transport is desirable but not essential. This is an exciting time to join a supportive team with development opportunities in a growing NHS pharmacy team. You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role. ### Main duties of the job The successful postholder will work under pharmacy SOPs to provide medicines top up and stock management for wards, with supervision available from pharmacy technicians. You will dispense medication against prescriptions and requisitions, calculating appropriate doses and doses for both inpatient and outpatients following SOPs, ensuring prescriptions and requisitions are legal and safe. You will receive medication supplies from wholesalers and electronically record this, and you will remove unwanted medication from the wards to determine what is suitable for return or destruction as per policies. In addition to this, the postholder will dispense controlled drugs for Ward stock and named patients following all legal requirements along with dispensing orders for emergency drugs. You will maintain cost effective holding on the wards, and ensure good stock control, ensuring stock checks and expiry date checks are completed in a timely manner. The postholder will maintain up to date knowledge and competency in the skills required to perform safely and effectively in the role and to undertake relevant statutory and mandatory training and to be responsible for personal development agreed with line manager. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please refer to the attached job descriptions and person specifications for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying. The pharmacy team in TEWV has over 100 team members including drivers, pharmacy assistants, administration, nurses, pharmacy technicians and pharmacists.  Individual team members are spread across multiple sites, with a dispensary in each of our 3 localities.  The locality teams work independently, but come together to agree standards and best practice, learning from each other and trying to improve. We developed a 5-year Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy framework which was created with the teams to produce a shared set of themes and priorities.  This is 'Our Journey to Change' Our values are Respect, Compassion and responsibility.  If you are a kind, supporting, honest, ambitious team member who thrives on being inclusive and working in partnership - our organisation may be a fit for you. This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Good communication skills - both oral and written including good telephone manner - Good organisational skills - Ability to work under supervision, and independently as appropriate - Customer care - Accuracy and attention to detail **Desirable** - Able to demonstrate good organisational and time management skills - Manual dexterity – medication handling - An ability to receive, interpret, analyse and deliver information ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of stock management - Telephone, email and internet experience - Experience of working supportively within a team **Desirable** - Experience of working in pharmacy - Experience with the use of appropriate software packages including Excel and Word ### Qualifications **Essential** - Basic general education, GCSE grade D or above in English and Maths **Desirable** - NVQ or equivalent level 2 pharmacy ## Documents - [our journey to change (pdf, 595.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2498) - [mindful employer recruitment (pdf, 93.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1595) - [probationary period procedure (pdf, 303.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1903) - [band 3 job description and person specification (pdf, 305.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10471931) - [band 2 pharmacy assistant job description and person specification (pdf, 608.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10471929) - [guidance for progression for pharmacy assistants (band 2) to senior pharmacy assistant (band 3) (pdf, 384.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10471930) ## 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.