# Senior Pharmacy Assistant > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-pharmacy-assistant/665f9c56-74e8-4678-afe2-8b9654e504b8 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-pharmacy-assistant/665f9c56-74e8-4678-afe2-8b9654e504b8.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Preston Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacy assistant - **Grade:** Band 3 - **Salary:** £25,760 - £27,476 Per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift patterns 9:00-17:00 or 9:30-17:30. Operational hours 8:00-19:30) - **Closing date:** 2026-09-28T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-14T15:10:37.943Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Preston_Chorley/Lancashire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8294871 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8294871?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an enthusiastic Pharmacy Assistant looking for a career in management? Full training will be delivered to support you make the transition. If you are keen to join a forward thinking pharmacy department supporting patient care we would love to hear from you. The Pharmacy Department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to be able to offer a vacancy for a Senior Pharmacy Assistant. As an employer we have earned a reputation for focusing on the development of our staff and for being an organisation people are proud to work for. **The wellbeing of staff is important to us; we have a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team who provide support on a range of topics, run fitness classes and organise mindfulness sessions** ### Main duties of the job We are one of the largest trusts in the country, providing district general hospital services to people in Preston and Chorley and specialist care (Neurology, Neurosurgery, Burns and Plastics, Oncology and Renal Medicine) to 1.5m people across Lancashire and South Cumbria in addition we are proud to be the regional Major Trauma Centre providing life and limb saving treatment for patients throughout Lancashire and South Cumbria. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Duties include, but are not limited to: - To work under the direct supervision of the Dispensary Team Leader. - To supervise, provide guidance and direction to the Pharmacy Assistants and Pharmacy Technician Team within the designated area. - To be responsible for ensuring that a range of quality Pharmacy Services are delivered to patients and other service users to include dispensing, and distribution of medicines. - To plan and manage own workload and that of the team to ensure services are delivered in a cost effective and operationally efficient manner. - To be responsible for training and development including appraisal and competency assessments - Line management of Pharmacy Assistants - To support training and development of other staff; maintaining quality and standards by contributing to the development and implementation of new services, processes and procedures to deliver services in line with Professional, Local and National directives. ### Applicant requirements The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Experience of working in pharmacy - Understanding of current pharmacy and NHS issues. - Knowledge of IT and Computer systems - Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures. **Desirable** - Experience of using Ascribe and ARX - Experience in Supervisory Management and Team Leadership ### Qualifications **Essential** - 2 GCSE Passes Grade C or above (or equivalent) (Maths and English) - Level 2 Certificate in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Support Staff (Qualification) or equivalent Or A General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) accredited support staff dispensing training course Or working towards either of the above **Desirable** - Leadership/ Management Certificate - 4 GCSE Passes Grade C or above (or equivalent) (Maths and English & science) ## 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) - [senior pharmacy assistant jd (pdf, 592.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10613434) ## 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.