Pharmacy Dispenser - Eston Cleveland Extra

Tesco; Middlesbrough; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company committed to delivering excellent service and patient care in a fast-paced pharmacy environment. As a Pharmacy Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in dispensing medications, advising customers, and supporting healthcare services. With a focus on community health, you'll work alongside experienced professionals and receive comprehensive training. This role offers a chance to develop your skills while making a real impact on customers' lives. If you're passionate about healthcare and customer service, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in pharmacy environments is valued.
• Qualifications in pharmacy are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Dispense medication accurately and provide excellent customer service.
• Support the operation of pharmacies and ensure compliance with SOPs.
• Communicate confidently with customers and advise on common ailments.

Skills

Customer Service

Medication Dispensing

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Pharmacy Operations

Education

Experience in Pharmacy Environment

Pharmacy Qualifications

Job description

Availability Window

Days	From time	To time
Mon	09:00:00	17:30:00
Wed	10:30:00	19:00:00
Thu	12:30:00	21:00:00
Fri	09:30:00	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 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 love to hear from you.

The table shows the periods of time during the week we’d like you to be available to work – the availability windows. We will schedule your contracted hours within these times, and you’ll have 3 weeks’ notice of your shifts. We support flexibility; if your available times closely match but not exactly the advertised times, we’d still love to hear from you. Click here to read more.

Customers are at the heart of everything we do.

Discover what it’s like to work in a fast-paced environment, where colleagues focus on delivering excellent service and patient care. Beyond dispensing medicines, you’ll help customers with new medicines, provide vaccinations, review medication use, and check blood pressure or blood glucose levels. It’s about supporting our communities by making healthcare accessible and convenient.

Working alongside experienced Pharmacists and managers, you will receive local management and leadership support. Our management team comes from diverse backgrounds, providing opportunities to learn.

We seek talented, driven Pharmacy professionals who can deliver high-quality healthcare services. In return, we offer a supportive team, detailed industry training, and a varied environment where no two days are the same.

Successful applicants will need to provide bank details before their start date.

Pharmacy Assistants are vital to our pharmacies. We look for team players who can:

• Support the operation of our modern pharmacies.
• Use technical skills and customer focus to dispense medication accurately.
• Ensure attention to detail and accuracy in dispensing medicines.
• Communicate confidently and professionally with customers, providing excellent service.
• Advise on common ailments, symptoms, and products.
• Understand customer needs, explain product benefits clearly, and recommend suitable products.
• Inform customers about pharmacy services.
• Support and deliver pharmacy services according to SOPs.
• Assess the legal appropriateness of prescriptions.
• Handle clinical and legal queries from healthcare practitioners.
• Respond to customer queries about medicines and report complaints.
• Follow dispensary routines and SOPs.
• Maintain a clean, tidy dispensary and consulting rooms.
• Ensure prescriptions are completed accurately and timely.
• Participate in promotional activities and company initiatives.
• Perform procedures accurately to ensure safety and compliance.
• Complete training and stay updated with legal and professional developments.

We value experience or qualifications from pharmacy environments and a desire to develop into the pharmacy field.

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, serving communities and the planet responsibly.

We promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, welcoming everyone to feel represented and able to be themselves. We support flexible working arrangements to accommodate life’s varied needs.

We are an accredited Disability Confident Leader and committed to an inclusive recruitment process. For accessibility support, please click here.

Please note: Tesco recruits individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. For details, click here. Candidates over 18 are required for roles involving early mornings, late nights, or specific store areas. High application volumes may lead to early role closures. Feedback is provided only to interviewed candidates.

For more about us, visit www.tescoplc.com.