Pharmacy Administrator
The closing date is 13 August 2025
Job summary
INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
We are looking for an enthusiastic and driven administrator to join our team in pharmacy. This post will work alongside our existing administrator to support the department with a variety of administrative tasks.
The role offers a great deal of flexibility to the post holder with options to work a proportion of time from home and a flexible working pattern.
The pharmacy team consists of around 60 staff and is situated on the ground floor of the Royal Papworth Hospital, opened just 6 years ago. We're looking for someone with previous administrator experience, preferably in a healthcare setting. A good grasp of Microsoft office products, including excel, is essential.
Main duties of the job
To provide comprehensive administrative services to the pharmacy department.
To be responsible for the ordering of all stationery and supplies.
To raise purchase orders and receipt goods for all pharmacy held contracts.
To produce pharmacy rosters including on-call and weekend and late duty and to ensure these reflect the hours worked prior to finalisation.
To support line managers with the recruitment process.
To arrange pharmacy meetings, sending out calendar invites and arranging rooms as required.
To provide administrative support to Drug and Therapeutics Committee, Medical Gas Committee, Non-Medical Prescribing Group and Pharmacy Business Unit Meeting. To act as minute taker for these meetings, follow up on actions and provide confirmation of approval of documents to other committees and document control.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour
Details
Date posted
30 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£27,485 to £30,162 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
Reference number
175-2526-PH1352
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
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Employer contact details
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