Dispensing Pharmacy Assistant - Aseptic Dispensing Unit


Company:	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£25,760 - £27,476 per annum
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	8 Oct 2026
Closing date:	7 Nov 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Are you looking for a role where your work directly contributes to safer, better patient care?Join our Pharmacy Production team and play a vital part in ensuring patients receive high‑quality, safe, and appropriately prepared medicines.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to join a committed and skilled team dedicated to maximising the availability of safe, appropriate medication to support excellent patient care.

Please note, this is NOT a Pharmacy Dispensing role.

You will work across three key areas within Pharmacy Production:

Aseptic Dispensing Unit

Your primary focus will be within our Aseptic Dispensing Unit, where you will assemble and prepare patient‑specific injectable medications for clinics and wards throughout the Trust. You will work within a Pharmacy clean room, wearing specialist clothing and prepare medications inside a pharmaceutical isolator.

Quality Control Department

You will be trained and validated to support the Quality Control team, carrying out essential checks on unlicensed medicines and products labelled in our Pre‑packing Unit.

Pre‑packing Unit

You will also be validated to work within the Pre‑packing Unit, labelling bulk quantities of medicines for both internal and external Trust customers, as well as picking and accuracy‑checking orders.

If you are enthusiastic, organised, and committed to supporting excellent patient care, we would be delighted to receive your application and welcome you to our team.

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

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.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

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

This advert closes on Thursday 22 Oct 2026

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