Pharmacy Support Worker | Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

Are you passionate about healthcare and ready to make a difference behind the scenes? We\’re looking for a dedicated Pharmacy Support Worker to help ensure the safe, efficient, and timely supply of medicines to patients. You\’ll be part of a supportive team committed to improving patient care. We offer training, development opportunities, and a chance to grow your career in pharmacy services. Join our dynamic team and play a key role in delivering safe, efficient, and patient-focused medicines management across our healthcare services.

The Pharmacy Support Worker carries out duties in support of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and also carries out general and administrative duties within the dispensary.

Dispensing of medicines for inpatients and outpatients including use of the pharmacy labelling and stock control computer system. All duties will be in accordance with Trust and departmental policies and procedures.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children’s, adult and older people’s mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications. Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

Responsibilities

1. To participate in the day to day work of the mental health unit dispensary, providing quality, accurate dispensing.
2. To participate in the supply of medicines in the form of in and out-patient dispensing, including accurate prescription receipt, labelling and assembly, and ensuring prompt completion and distribution, in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
3. Contributing to the smooth running of the clozapine service.
4. Ordering of stock medication for wards and distribution of medicines to the wards.
5. Maintaining working stock levels of pharmaceuticals and other items, including bottles and consumables in the dispensary.
6. Participating in the stock control process including stock checking, receipt and storage of medicines and other items.
7. Processing the disposal of stock returned from wards and departments.
8. Performing general housekeeping duties to maintain the dispensary environment to the standards required.
9. Communicating with service users, carers and members of staff at the pharmacy hatch and telephone about the availability of medicines and other issues.

Qualifications and Opportunities

[Note: No specific qualifications were listed in the original text. The role involves active participation in dispensing activities and stock management in line with departmental policies.]

Application information

This advert closes on Wednesday 15 Oct 2025.