Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic Pharmacy Assistant who has gained, or has almost completed, their Level 2 Apprenticeship in Pharmacy Services, to join our friendly team.

This is a varied, interesting and physically demanding position based in our distribution team at Kingston Hospital, with additional responsibilities for our IV fluid service.   Experience will be gained in different aspects of hospital pharmacy and you will also be given the opportunity to learn about pharmacy procurement services.

You must have customer service experience, be a good communicator (both written and verbal) and show a willingness to learn.   We offer the opportunity to enhance existing skills and develop new ones.

We are moving towards a 7-day working week service, including weekends, Bank Holidays and late duty and you would be expected to participate in these rotas.

We welcome community based pharmacy assistants to apply for this position.

Main duties of the job

You will support the supervision and training of the distribution team and management of the IV fluid service.   You will assist in goods receipting, general supply of medicines and checking stock entering and exiting the pharmacy store.

Carrying out a top up service of medicines and IV fluids to wards and departments on and off site and provide an efficient and effective pharmacy supply service. 

Working for our organisation

We have four core values that all colleagues are expected to demonstrate in the way they work. Shaped by staff, patients and partners, our values are the guiding principles that together define who we are, what we do and what’s most important to us.

We are:
Compassionate - we treat everyone with kindness, understanding and empathy

Inclusive - we are respectful, fair and open, embracing everyone’s unique contribution

Collaborative - we work together across our teams and with our partners and are helpful, positive and supportive

Inspiring - we strive for the best for patients, staff and partners and are always learning and improving