TEWV pharmacy team are recruiting a dispensing assistant to join our pharmacy at West Park Hospital, Darlington. This new post will allow the successful candidate to progress from a band 2 to a band 3 senior pharmacy assistant after completing the relevant criteria required.
The successful applicant will be an exceptional team player with good communication and interpersonal skills who are enthusiastic and committed to join our team. Ideally applicants will have previous experience in working within a pharmacy as a dispensing assistant, but this is not essential. Applicants own transport is desirable but not essential.
This is an exciting time to join a supportive team with development opportunities in a growing NHS pharmacy team.
You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.
The successful applicant will work under pharmacy SOPs to provide medicines top up and stock management for wards, with supervision available from pharmacy technicians. They will dispense medication against prescriptions and requisitions, calculating appropriate doses and doses for both inpatient and outpatients following SOPs, ensuring prescriptions and requisitions are legal and safe.
You will receive medication supplies from wholesalers and electronically record this and remove unwanted medication from the wards to determine what is suitable for return or destruction as per policies. You will dispense controlled drugs forward stock and named patients following all legal requirements.
They will maintain up to date knowledge and competency in the skills required to perform safely and effectively in the role and to undertake relevant statutory and mandatory training and to be responsible for personal development agreed with line manager.
The pharmacy team in TEWV has over 100 team members including drivers, pharmacy assistants, administration, nurses, pharmacy technicians and pharmacists. Individual team members are spread across multiple sites, with a dispensary in each of our 3 localities. The locality teams work independently, but come together to agree standards and best practice, learning from each other and trying to improve.
We developed a 5-year Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy framework which was created with the teams to produce a shared set of themes and priorities. This is 'Our Journey to Change'
Our values are Respect, Compassion and Responsibility. If you are a kind, supporting, honest, ambitious team member who thrives on being inclusive and working in partnership - our organisation may be a fit for you.
09 July 2026
Agenda for change
Band 2
£25,272 to £27,476 a year pro rata, per annum
Permanent
Full-time, Part-time
346-PH-021-26-A
West Park Hospital
Edward Pease Way
Darlington
DL2 2TS
United Kingdom
Please refer to the attached job descriptions and person specifications for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.
Please refer to the attached job descriptions and person specifications for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.
This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.
- Experience of stock management customer care setting
- Telephone, email and internet experience
- Experience of working supportively within a team
- Experience of working in pharmacy environment
- Experience with the use of appropriate software packages including Excel and Word
- Good communication skills - both oral and written including good telephone manner
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work under supervision, and independently as appropriate
- Customer care
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Able to demonstrate good organisational and time management skills
- Manual dexterity - medication handling
- An ability to receive, interpret, analyse and deliver information
- Basic general education, GCSE grade D or above in English and Maths
- NVQ or equivalent level 2 pharmacy
- Experience of stock management customer care setting
- Telephone, email and internet experience
- Experience of working supportively within a team
- Experience of working in pharmacy environment
- Experience with the use of appropriate software packages including Excel and Word
- Good communication skills - both oral and written including good telephone manner
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work under supervision, and independently as appropriate
- Customer care
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Able to demonstrate good organisational and time management skills
- Manual dexterity - medication handling
- An ability to receive, interpret, analyse and deliver information
- Basic general education, GCSE grade D or above in English and Maths
- NVQ or equivalent level 2 pharmacy
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
West Park Hospital
Edward Pease Way
Darlington
DL2 2TS
United Kingdom
https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
West Park Hospital
Edward Pease Way
Darlington
DL2 2TS
United Kingdom
https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
