Pharmacy Dispenser - Northampton South Extra

Tesco PLC; Far Cotton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading supermarket chain in Far Cotton is seeking a Pharmacy Dispenser to provide excellent customer service and accurately dispense prescription medicines. This role requires a commitment to quality care and offers competitive pay starting at £12.87 an hour along with various benefits. You'll work in a modern pharmacy environment, helping customers with their needs and supporting the dispensing process.

Benefits

20 days holiday plus personal day

Flexible working options

10% off shopping via Colleague Clubcard

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Supporting the operation of one of our new modern Pharmacies.
• Dispensing prescription medicines accurately.
• Providing excellent customer service to pharmacy visitors.

Skills

Desire to train and develop in Pharmacy

Experience in a Pharmacy environment

Job description

Overview

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.

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 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.

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 & Training

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

Benefits

• 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.
• 10% off and 15% at payday weekends – save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard.
• Access to free wellbeing services with a range of resources to support your mind, body, and life.
• Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%.
• Benefits to suit you – choose what you use from discounts and shares to cycle to work schemes.
• Uniform provided and policies support you for all of life’s moments, big and small.

Disability confident