Senior Pharmacy Assistant Technical Services

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Main area Senior Pharmacy Assistant Technical Services Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (includes weekends & bank Holidays) Job
-D200-26

Site Royal Blackburn Hospital Town Blackburn Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2026 08:00

At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.

Do you want to be an integral part of a thriving acute Trust that embraces transformation and is passionate about delivering safe, personal and effective care? If the answer is yes, we have the perfect opportunity for you to join our award-winning pharmacy team.

We are looking for a Senior Pharmacy Assistant who is keen to join our friendly team. The right candidate will benefit from a training programme that gives the variety of duties required within the Technical Services Department.

The right candidate will be a strong communicator, organised and a team player.

General duties of this post include:

• Maintaining accurate stock levels of medicines and consumables
• Receipt and Return of cleanroom clothing, with some heavy lifting and bending involved.
• Stock replenishment for both units within Technical Services
• Inputting orders into the computer systems
• Answering telephones and dealing with simple queries
• Processing and disposing of medicinal waste
• Cleaning of the Aseptic and Chemotherapy Units and the Isolators
• Assembling ingredients for the production of chemotherapy and intravenous medicines
• Production of Aseptically Manipulated Products including CIVAS/PN and Chemotherapy medicines
• Training of Domestic's, Assistants, Technician's and Pharmacists in the cleaning of the Technical Services Units
• Training of Assistants, Technician's and Pharmacists in 3 stage transfer decontamination in both Aseptic's and the Chemotherapy Units
• Performing In Process Checks for Aseptically prepared products
• Dispensing of Outsourced Special's medication

Established in 2003 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.

Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.

A rota is in place to cover Bank Holidays and we are a flexible and friendly team. Core hours of the service run from 08:00 - 16:30 with a weekend day 09:00 - 16:00 included in the working week. Staff work a 7.5 hour shift within these hours, there may be an option to work longer shifts . All working patterns can be discussed at interview.

General duties of this post include:

Deputise for other Senior Pharmacy Assistant colleagues as delegated and as designated in their absence.
Undertake cytotoxic reconstitution and dispensing in…