Pharmacy Assistant - Pre-Packing Unit

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our dedicatedPre-Packing Team at King's Mill Hospital.

Our Pre-Packing Unit at Sherwood Forest Hospitals holds an MHRA Specials Licence, enabling us to pack down and over-label large batches of medications for both internal departments and external customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a highly regulated environment where accuracy, consistency and teamwork are essential.

About the Role

As a Pre-Packing Operative, your duties will include:

• Receiving and checking incoming stock

• Safe and organised storage of medicines

• Packing and over-labelling medication batches

• Ensuring all products meet quality and regulatory standards

• Preparing and distributing medicines to internal and external customers

This role is vital in supporting the safe and efficient flow of medicines throughout the organisation.

You'll be part of a friendly, supportive team that plays a crucial role in ensuring medicines are prepared safely and efficiently for patients across the Trust and beyond. This full-time position offers stability, development opportunities and the chance to work within a regulated, professional environment.

Please note, this is not a dispensing role. We do not dispense prescriptions, and there is no patient contact involved.

Main duties of the job

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

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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