Pharmacy Dispenser - Aylesford Lunsford Park Extra

ENGINEERINGUK; Tonbridge and Malling; On-site; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Pharmacy Dispenser to join their team. In this dynamic role, you will play a crucial part in ensuring the smooth operation of a modern pharmacy, delivering high-quality healthcare services to customers. You will dispense medications accurately, provide valuable information to customers, and support various pharmacy services. This position offers a supportive environment with opportunities for training and development, ensuring that no two days are the same. If you are passionate about healthcare and customer service, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

20 days holiday plus personal day

Flexible working options

10% discount on purchases

Access to free wellbeing services

Life cover of five times your pay

Award-winning pension

Uniform provided

Access to colleague networks

Qualifications

• Experience or qualifications gained from working in a Pharmacy environment.
• A desire to train and develop into the Pharmacy field.

Responsibilities

• Dispensing prescription medicines with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Providing information to customers in a friendly and professional manner.
• Supporting the operation of modern Pharmacies and delivering services.

Skills

Customer Service

Attention to Detail

Pharmacy Knowledge

Communication Skills

Education

Experience in Pharmacy Environment

Desire to Train in Pharmacy

Job description

Pharmacy Dispenser - Aylesford Lunsford Park Extra

Sector: Health and Medical
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

About the role
Availability Window:

Days From time To time
Thu 08:00:00 17:00:00
Fri 09:00:00 18:00:00
Sat 09:00:00 18:00:00

Our Pharmacy Dispenser rate of pay starts from £12.87 an hour; this increases to £14.08 for stores inside the M25. Additional payments may also apply depending on location.

It's our policy to offer new colleagues joining us a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours each week, but if you'd like to work fewer hours (to a minimum of 12) we have opportunities for this too and would still love to hear from you.

Customers are at the heart of everything we do.

Discover what it's like to work in a fast-paced environment, where colleagues are focused on delivering a gold standard of service and patient care. Every day you'll have the opportunity to make things better for customers in all sorts of ways, such as helping customers with their new medicines, providing vaccinations, reviewing customers' use of their medicines, and checking blood pressure or testing for blood glucose levels.

Working alongside experienced Pharmacists and managers, you will receive local management and leadership support in whatever store you are based. Our management team comes from a variety of backgrounds so there is always a chance to learn.

We are looking for talented and driven Pharmacy professionals who can deliver the highest quality healthcare service to our customers, and in return, we will provide a supportive team, detailed industry training, and a varied working environment where no two days are the same.

Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.

You will be responsible for:
Pharmacy Assistants are integral to the running of our Pharmacies. We are looking for someone who is a team player, and can take on the following responsibilities:

1. Supporting the operation of one of our new modern Pharmacies.
2. Applying your technical skills and strong customer focus to accurately dispense medication for our customers.
3. Dispensing prescription medicines, ensuring attention to detail and accuracy are maintained at all times.
4. Talking to customers and offering information in a confident, friendly and professional manner.
5. Offering appropriate information to customers on common ailments, symptoms, and products.
6. Taking time to understand the customers' needs, explaining the benefits of the products in a way they understand.
7. Advising customers on the range of Pharmacy services available.
8. Supporting and delivering Pharmacy services and the dispensing process according to the Standard Operating Procedures.
9. Assessing the legal appropriateness of dispensed prescriptions.
10. Dealing with clinical and legal queries from Healthcare practitioners within area of competence.
11. Responding to customer queries in relation to prescription medicines, informing the Pharmacist of any complaints.
12. Ensuring all dispensary routines and Standard Operating Procedures are followed.
13. Ensuring dispensary and consulting rooms are clean, tidy, and free of clutter.
14. Ensuring all prescription administration is accurate and completed on time.
15. Bringing promotional activities and company initiatives within the team to life.
16. Carrying out all procedures accurately to protect profit and ensure we trade safely and legally.
17. Completing corporate and departmental training.
18. Keeping up to date with legal and professional developments in pharmacy.

You will need:
• Experience or qualifications gained from working in a Pharmacy environment.
• A desire to train and develop into the Pharmacy field.

What's in it for you?
• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays)
• Request flexible working from day one
• Get 10% off and 15% at payday weekends
• Access to free wellbeing services
• Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension
• Benefits to suit you, choose what you use
• Uniform provided
• Access to our colleague networks.

About Us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. We believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) and welcome chats about flexible working.

Please note:
Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm.