Job summary

Trainee Pharmacy Assistant Technical Officer

Looking for an exciting career in healthcare? Are you leaving school this summer, want a career change or just starting out? Are you looking to move from retail to hospital pharmacy? This is an ideal entry point

Would you like to achieve a nationally recognised qualification, with fully supported training and the chance to work in a progressive patient centered environment? East Surrey Pharmacy Department is an environment which provides exciting opportunities for career progression

A varied role with rotations to different areas within our mini-teams, enabling experience of medicine use across all specialties, including other rotations based in the dispensary and pharmacy stores. Duties include going to wards to order stock and deliver medicines, supplying medicines from pharmacy stores and dispensing medicines in the dispensary.

Previous experience of working in a pharmacy environment (hospital or retail) is desirable, but not essential as full in-house training will be provided, including support to gain BTech level 2 in Pharmacy Service Skills. To qualify for enrolment on BTech level 2 it is essential that you have GCSEs (or equivalent qualifications) at grade C (4) or above in English Language, Mathematics and a Science

Hours of work depends on specific service requirements and will include participation in late duty, weekend and bank holiday working. A significant amount of manual handling is involved

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About us

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as ‘Outstanding’ and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
• We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
• Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation’s top priority
• Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey