Senior Pharmacy Assistant

Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic and hardworking individual looking for a career in hospital pharmacy?

This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our services within the Pharmacy department. You will be given the opportunity to work in our Patient Services and Distribution areas. We are looking for someone with experience and a passion for this area of work.

Your role will involve helping to implement, deliver and continually improve the Pharmacy Services within the pharmacy department at Central Middlesex Hospital.

You must have excellent communication skills and enjoy working in a large multi-disciplinary team.

You must have excellent communication skills and enjoy working in a large multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

The department actively promotes development, education and training. To apply you will need to have good GCSEs or equivalent and have obtained, or be willing to work towards a full NVQ level 2 in pharmacy services or equivalent.

This is a full time post and the post holder will be required to participate in the weekend or bank holiday rota.

You must have excellent communication skills and enjoy working in a large multi-disciplinary team.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

o Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK

o St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease

o Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice

o Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.