Senior Assistant Technical Officer

Job Summary

Are you interested in a career in Pharmacy? Are you innovative and forward thinking? This may be the position you're looking for.

We are looking for someone to become a member of our Senior Pharmacy Assistant Team, where you will provide support in delivering a high quality service to all Pharmacy customers.

This position would suit someone with a keen eye for detail and who is able to communicate effectively with a wide range of people, including other healthcare professionals and members of the public. You will be a good team player, enthusiastic and proactive with the ability to remain calm under pressure.

• Dispensing inpatient and outpatient prescriptions and discharge medication.
• Meeting and greeting people at the reception hatch and accepting outpatient prescriptions and taking prescription charges.
• Completing ward top ups and expiry dating.
• Completing a GPhC-approved Level 2 Pharmacy course.

Closing date: 25 February 2026

Interview date: 12 March 2026

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

• We see on average 4,810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2,077 per week.
• An average of 1,115 patients are seen in A&E across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Agenda for Change

Band 3

£24,937 to £26,598 a year pro rata pa

Permanent

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Queens Hospital Burton
Belvedere Road
Burton-on-Trent
DE13 0RB

320-CDCS-BUR-3931

Qualifications and Training – Essential

• English and Maths GCSE Grade 4 or equivalent

Qualifications and Training – Desirable

• NVQ L2 in Pharmacy

Knowledge – Desirable

• Knowledge of pharmacy services

Experience – Essential

• Works as part of a team
• Proven experience of working in a customer-facing role

Experience – Desirable

• Hospital experience

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.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Queens Hospital Burton
Belvedere Road
Burton-on-Trent
DE13 0RB

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