Pharmacy Assistant - PharmacyBucks | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Are you an experienced dispenser from community pharmacy looking for a role with a difference? Would you like a change of setting and the desire to develop your knowledge in a Hospital Outpatient Setting? Or are you thinking about a career in Pharmacy and looking for your first Hospital based role as a Pharmacy Assistant?

Outpatient Hospital Pharmacy may just be the place for you.

Discover what it’s like to work as an Outpatient Pharmacy Assistant, where you will have ample opportunity to develop and utilise your existing knowledge as well as learn new skills to provide a safe and efficient pharmacy service to patients.

Pharmacy@Bucks is an innovative Outpatient Dispensing service that combines the knowledge of a community and a hospital Pharmacy to provide exemplary service to all our patients. Working in close partnership with the Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT), we thrive to provide a customer focused clinical service to all patients and Healthcare Professionals alike.

All Outpatient Pharmacies across Amersham, Stoke Mandeville and High Wycombe are run by Buckinghamshire Health Projects Ltd (BHPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Pharmacy@Bucks provides dispensing services from outpatient prescriptions issued by BHT and advice to BHT staff and visitors, with the option to provide Over the counter (OTC) medicines in the near future.

Since the start of Pharmacy@Bucks, we have seen the professional development of our keen staff members, ranging from Pharmacy Assistants, Pharmacy Technicians and Accuracy checking Pharmacy Technicians to Pharmacist Managers and Lead Pharmacists.

We would like to welcome two keen Pharmacy Assistants to our ever-growing team with a passion to learn, develop and grow in their role. This unique role offers the chance to be part of a growing team within our outpatient Pharmacies at Amersham, High Wycombe and/or Stoke Mandeville Hospital with potential to work cross-site. This will enable you to develop your career in a fast-paced environment, whilst providing a customer focused and critical service to patients. You will be supported with the right training to ensure that you have the skills and knowledge required for working in a hospital setting.

The chosen candidate will receive in-house training, including labelling and dispensing of Outpatient prescriptions, ordering medication and the use of our medicine management system.

Students, trainees and other suitable working patterns will be considered. The post holder will be required to work cross sites to provide holiday and sickness cover within our outpatient Pharmacies in Stoke Mandeville, High Wycombe and Amersham Hospital.

Salary Highly competitive salary ranging from £24,960 to £26,227 for a 37.5 hour per week contract. (Salary will be based pro-rata for part time contracts)

Qualifications

GCSE Grade C/4 or equivalent in English, Science and Maths

Desired -NVQ2 in Pharmacy Services or GPhC accredited equivalent course.

Benefits

Your hard work and contributions will be recognised with the benefits offered via BHPL, including a discretionary annual bonus, 33 days annual leave (inclusive of Bank Holidays) pro-rata, further career development and many more company benefits.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Jun 2026