Relief Technician

Bestway Healthcare; Scotland; Remote; GBP 21,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive salaries

Generous holiday allowance including 


Opportunity to gain further 
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Superb development and career oppo

Job summary

Well Pharmacy, part of Bestway Healthcare, seeks a Relief Pharmacy Technician to oversee dispensing operations, stock control and customer service across its community pharmacies in Scotland. You will cover absences and holidays, provide healthcare advice at the counter and support sales duties, including cash handling and displays.

Applicants must hold an NVQ/QCF Level 3 in Pharmacy Services, be GPhC registered, and have an up-to-date DBS/PVG. DBS/PVG checks will be arranged if not current.

Qualifications

• Customer service excellence and friendly, organised approach.
• Ability to manage stock and coordinate dispensing processes.
• Experience supporting multiple pharmacy teams and handling counter duties.

Responsibilities

• Lead and organise dispensary operations to ensure smooth running.
• Coordinate dispensing of medications safely and accurately while managing stock levels.
• Assist with sales, cash handling and storefront displays as needed.
• Be the first point of contact for customers and provide healthcare advice; handle queries from GP surgeries.

Skills

Customer service

Organisation

Retail cashiering

Education

NVQ/QCF Level 3 equivalent qualification in Pharmacy Services

Job description

Are you friendly and organised with a passion for providing excellent customer service butlooking to further your skills and career?

Here at Well, we aim to build the best prescription experience in the UK. Sounds ambitious, right? But that’s okay, because we’ve got a fantastic team of talented, creative and forward-thinking people, that are key in helping us get there

Main Responsibility

Your main responsibilities as Pharmacy Technician will be to lead and organise the smooth running of the dispensary and co-ordinate dispensing medication effectively and safely, managing stock levels and be another expert for our customers to talk to, providing healthcare advice and services at the counter. You’ll also assist with sales and general store duties including product displays and cash transactions. As every day is different, you could find yourself getting involved with everything from acting as the first point of contact for customers, managing high volume dispensing transactions for local care homes to dealing with operational queries from GP surgeries.

The Ideal Candidate

As a Relief Pharmacy Technician, you will beresponsible for covering absence and holidays in surrounding Well Pharmacies. You will be working within multiple teams across a number of Community Pharmacies as this role provides crucial support and ensures we provide the best patient and customer service.

You should also have an NVQ/QCF Level 3 equivalent qualification in Pharmacy Services and GPhC registration.

All successful applicants to this role are required to have an up to date DBS/PVG before their start dates. If you are not on the Automatic Update Service, we will apply for a DBS/PVG for you.

Well are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we'll do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.

Package Description

• Highly competitive salaries


• Generous holiday allowance including bank holidays


• Opportunity to gain further qualifications


• Superb development and career opportunities

About the Company

For over 70 years, we’ve been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the secondlargest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.

We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close-knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

• Division / Function Division 8 Scotland and Northern Ireland


• Location Fife , United Kingdom (Incl. Northern Ireland)