Dispensing Pharmacy Assistant - Aseptic Dispensing Unit

Employer: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL

Salary: £25,760 - £27,476

Job type: Permanent

Posted: 2026-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sector: Retail

Job Description

Job summary

Are you looking for a role where your work directly contributes to safer, better patient care? Join our Pharmacy Production team and play a vital part in ensuring patients receive high-quality, safe, and appropriately prepared medicines.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to join a committed and skilled team dedicated to maximising the availability of safe, appropriate medication to support excellent patient care.

Please note, this is NOT a Pharmacy Dispensing role.

You will work across three key areas within Pharmacy Production:

Aseptic Dispensing Unit

Your primary focus will be within our Aseptic Dispensing Unit, where you will assemble and prepare patient-specific injectable medications for clinics and wards throughout the Trust. You will work within a Pharmacy clean room, wearing specialist clothing and prepare medications inside a pharmaceutical isolator.

Quality Control Department

You will be trained and validated to support the Quality Control team, carrying out essential checks on unlicensed medicines and products labelled in our Pre-packing Unit.

Pre-packing Unit

You will also be validated to work within the Pre-packing Unit, labelling bulk quantities of medicines for both internal and external Trust customers, as well as picking and accuracy-checking orders.

If you are enthusiastic, organised, and committed to supporting excellent patient care, we would be delighted to receive your application and welcome you to our team.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

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