Pharmacy Stores Assistant

Employer The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Trustwide Town 317 Trustwide Salary £24,465 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 08/02/2026 23:59 Interview date 25/02/2026

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, w e’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus.

Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

We are looking to recruit Pharmacy Stores Assistants based at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Freeman Hospital to assist in the provision of a first-class medication supply service within the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust and to support our clinical colleagues in the treatment of our patients.

Presently the Pharmacy Stores team operates fully from Monday to Friday and provides a reduced provision on Saturdays and Sundays. The successful applicant will participate on a rostered basis in providing this additional service and it is our intention to review and extend this provision across all days of the week in the near future.

As a Pharmacy Stores Assistant you will initially be working predominantly in the Pharmacy Stores and will receive extensive training & support from the rest of the Stores team.

• Interview Date: 25th February 2026
• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
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The successful applicant will be involved in the receipt of medication into the Trust in an environment which can be both noisy and hectic ensuring a high level of accuracy at all times. You will also be working as part of a Team to provide a delivery service to the wards ensuring medication is delivered from Stores & Dispensaries in a timely manner.

Precise assessment and recording of information is imperative to ensure that correct items are received and put into stock within the Stores environment.

As your confidence and knowledge grows you will transition into roles throughout the wider hospital environment.

When working within the departments and wards of the Trust the successful applicant will facilitate in ensuring that the right medications are available when required by other members of the healthcare team and also contributing to an effective top-up service

In our new recruit we are looking for an individual who is committed to delivering a high quality service to our patients and whose personal attributes include: the ability to work accurately in a very busy environment, good communication skills, a professional manner, a flexible team approach and the…