Pharmacy Assistant Higher Level

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you looking for an career in mental health services or the NHS? If so, you could be well suited to this role.

We are looking to recruit a Pharmacy Assistant to be part of the Trust Medicines Management Team working with our Inpatient Pharmacy Team in West Sussex. This role involves assisting Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians in medicines optimisation, ensuring compliance with mental health regulations and providing essential support to healthcare professionals and patients.

This post is subject to an enhanced check with adults barred list Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check.

Main duties of the job

This post presents an opportunity for a Pharmacy Assistant motivated by the desire to improve patient care, by supporting the Inpatient Pharmacy Team in West Sussex. You will be working with Specialist Pharmacists and Technicians to provide this service.

You will provide medicines top ups to Mental Health Inpatient wards, along with development towards named patient ordering.

The role requires an organised, flexible individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

The team provides a well-structured support system, access to training, with opportunity for development.

There is no dispensary commitment with this role.

About us

We are a friendly and committed pharmacy team, who are keen to support the wellbeing of our patients and each other.

Sussex Partnership is one of the largest mental health trust in the UK. The physical health of our mental health patients is important to us and with the live expectancy of patients with serious mental health dying 15 to 20 years earlier, the trust is committed to reducing this risk and pharmacy play a key role in this.

About us

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

You can expect:

Access to full psychological support, the wellbeing team
Excellent supervision programmes.
Flexible working opportunities
Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC
Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
Excellent NHS Pension Scheme

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Date posted

17 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,071 to £25,674 a year pro rata for part time

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

354-CO-21602

Job locations

Langley Green Hospital

Martyrs Avenue

Crawley

RH11 7EJ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification. If you have any queries please feel free to contact to discuss further. We would love to speak with you to see if you are a good fit for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ level 2, Pharmacy Services. Including three core units.
Minimum 3 GCSEs A*-C grade, including Maths

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ level 2, Pharmacy Services. Including three core units.
Minimum 3 GCSEs A*-C grade, including Maths

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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