Pharmacy Dispenser - St Helens Extra

Tesco UK; St Helens; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company is seeking a Pharmacy Dispenser in St Helens to deliver exceptional customer care and community support. The role involves dispensing medications, providing vaccinations, and assisting with health checks. Successful candidates will benefit from a supportive team, flexible working hours, and various perks including holiday allowances and discounts.

Benefits

20 days holiday plus bank holidays

10% discount for staff

Access to free wellbeing services

Life cover and pension scheme

Uniform provided

Qualifications

• Experience in customer service and pharmacy functions.
• Ability to provide vaccinations and check blood pressure.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Dispensing medicines and providing customer care.
• Assisting customers with their medications.
• Supporting healthcare services in the community.

Skills

Customer service

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Education

Pharmacy qualification

Job description

Tesco UK

• St Helens

Apply by 09-May-2025

About the role

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.

The table shows the periods of time in 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 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. to read more.

Availability Window

Days From time To time Sun 09 : 00 : 00 21 : 00 : 00 Mon 09 : 00 : 00 21 : 00 : 00 Tue 09 : 00 : 00 21 : 00 : 00 Wed 09 : 00 : 00 21 : 00 : 00 Thu 09 : 00 : 00 21 : 00 : 00 Fri 09 : 00 : 00 21 : 00 : 00 Sat 09 : 00 : 00 21 : 00 : 00

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. 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.

What is 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 pay day weekends – save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard with an additional card to share with family outside your home
• 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 to support you for all of life’s moments, big and small
• Access to our colleague networks providing a space for colleagues to come together from a range of backgrounds.