# Senior Pharmacy Assistant - Mental Health Band 3

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

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Pharmacy assistant
- **Grade:** Band 3
- **Salary:** £25760.00 to £27476.00
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Fixed term)
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Term time hours, 37.5 hours per week (Maximum 37.5 hours per week, part time considered)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-27T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13T10:12:56.474Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8357129
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8357129?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.gloshospitals.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Senior Pharmacy Assistant performs a wide range of duties within the mental health dispensary essential to providing a comprehensive dispensing and distribution service.

Expected interview date: 06/11/2026

### Main duties of the job

Dispensing for in-patients and out-patients according to standard operating procedures.

Co-ordinating the supply of items that are owed to patients, checking order levels are adequate for supply and resolving any supply issues.

Dispensing controlled drugs according to standard operating procedures.

Re-stock the dispensary shelves with backup stock from the stores department.

Please see document attached for further information

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be part of the weekend working rota covering the acute trust pharmacy at a frequency of approximately 1 in 13 weekends.

The post holder will be part of the bank holiday working rota covering the acute trust as per departmental arrangements (approx. one BH per year).

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Basic numeracy and literacy
- Be proficient in IT

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of working in a pharmacy or dispensing doctors

**Desirable**

- Experience of working in a mental health dispensary

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Level NVQ Pharmacy Service Skills
- Proven picking/dispensing accuracy

### Personal Attributes

**Essential**

- Self-motivated and able to use initiative & prioritise workload as well as work in a team
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable

## Documents

- [why work for us - rewards and benefits (pdf, 3.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2952)
- [senior pharmacy assistant - mental health job description and person specification (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10683500)

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