Pharmacy Dispenser - Falkirk Grahams Road

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

Job summary

A leading retail company in Scotland is looking for a Pharmacy Dispenser to join their team. You will dispense medications, provide excellent customer service, and support pharmacy services. Ideal candidates will have experience in a pharmacy environment and a desire to enhance their skills. Competitive pay rates and flexible work opportunities are available.

Qualifications

• Experience working in a pharmacy environment is essential.
• Desire to train and develop within the pharmacy field.

Responsibilities

• Support the operation of a modern Pharmacy.
• Accurately dispense medication for customers.
• Provide information and advice to customers on products.

Skills

Customer focus

Technical skills in pharmacy

Attention to detail

Education

Qualifications from working in a Pharmacy environment

Job description

Availability Window

Availability window: Sun 09:45–16:00; Mon 10:00–14:00; Tue 08:00–16:00; Wed 12:00–20:00.

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 is 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.

The availability windows indicate the periods of time in the week we’d like you to be available to work. We will schedule your contracted hours within these times, and you’ll have 3 weeks’ notice of exactly when your shifts will be. We are happy to support flexibility for our colleagues; therefore if the times you’re available to work match closely but not exactly to the times we are advertising, we’d still love to hear from you. Read more in the policy guidance.

Customers are at the heart of everything we do.

Overview

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. There’s a lot more to it than dispensing medicines. 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. It’s very much about supporting our communities, by making the best healthcare choices available and convenient for local people.

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\'ll 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.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

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

About the Company

Our vision is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. Diversity, equity and inclusion means everyone is welcome and welcome to speak about flexible working. We are proud to be Disability Confident Leader and offer an accessible recruitment process.

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 or involves working in certain areas. Some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date to manage applicants. For more information, please visit our website.