Pharmacy Assistant - Pre-Packing Unit

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The closing date is 01 February 2026

Join a team where your work directly supports safe, efficient patient care. We are looking for a motivated individual to join our busy Pre-Packing Department at King's Mill Hospital, helping to deliver high-quality, accurately prepared medicines to the Trust and external NHS partners.

The Pre-Packing Department plays a vital role in supplying over-labelled medicines to wards, clinics and other NHS Trusts across the county. This work ensures patients can be discharged safely and promptly with the medication they need. Please note that this is not a dispensary role; the focus is on preparing large, bespoke batches of labelled medicines for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

Picking and checking orders to support timely supply

Labelling and packing large batches of medicines with accuracy and care

Putting stock away and maintaining organised storage areas

Carrying out daily cleaning tasks to uphold a safe, efficient working environment

Supporting smooth departmental operations through reliable, high-quality work

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys practical, hands‑on tasks and takes pride in contributing to a service that makes a real difference to patient care.

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 -

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.

• To possess knowledge of procedures for packing or equivalent.

• Maths and English Grade C - GCSE/GCE.
• NVQ level 2 in pharmacy services.

• Manual handling training
• Health and Safety Training, including COSHH, Fire and Security

• Experience of following procedures
• Proven team member and ability to work alone
• Proven oral and written
• Stock Control
• Pharmaceutical Prepacking

• Regular attendance during the required hours
• Flexible approach to working hours
• No long term infections, diseases or particular drug allergies that preclude production work

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust