Trainee Accuracy Checking Technician

Boots Opticians; Winchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare team at Boots Opticians as a Pharmacy Technician. You'll provide exceptional customer care, lead dispensing activities, and ensure compliance with regulations. This role offers an opportunity for professional growth in a supportive environment focused on diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Qualifications

• Extensive pharmacy experience required.
• Ability to deliver pharmacy strategy in collaboration with the team.

Responsibilities

• Leading dispensing activities and checking prescriptions.
• Providing customer service and building trust.
• Ensuring legal and ethical decision-making in pharmacy.

Skills

Customer Care

Leadership

Education

Registered Pharmacy Technician

Job description

The importance of your role.

At Boots, we are dedicated to providing the best clinical services and patient care for our customers. We need the very best people to join and lead our skilled healthcare team, sharing our passion and commitment to delivering a great experience to every customer who visits our pharmacies.

Accuracy and care define this role. It involves everything from offering friendly advice and recommending products to supplying prescriptions—services that exceed customer expectations.

This role offers a great opportunity to advance your professional and pharmacy career.

How will you do it?

Caring for our customers.

Be confident in providing accurate, expert knowledge on the supply of medicines and services, ensuring customers know we're here to help.

Build strong relationships within the Pharmacy team and inspire high standards to ensure the best care for our customers and patients.

Identify areas for improvement in services or customer care, helping us optimize team performance.

What you’ll be doing day to day.

Leading dispensing activities, working with teams to accurately check prescriptions while meeting regulatory standards.

Inspiring your team to excel and providing personable customer service that builds trust.

Your duties will include:

• Ensuring legal, safe, and ethical decision-making in the pharmacy
• Conducting final accuracy checks for prescriptions after clinical review by a pharmacist
• Complying with legal and professional guidelines in Boots
• Tailoring conversations to inform and reassure customers about their healthcare needs, coaching team members to do the same
• Engaging external stakeholders to promote locally commissioned services
• Managing efficient dispensary operations and minimizing dispensing losses
• Ordering medicines, labeling, dispensing, and endorsing prescriptions

What you’ll need to have.

Explore how your pharmacy career can progress with us…

We offer an exciting opportunity to continue your professional journey. We seek individuals with a genuine passion for customer care, leadership skills, and the ability to deliver pharmacy strategy in collaboration with the team.

You must have extensive pharmacy experience and be registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Our Diversity and Inclusion commitment

Diversity and inclusion are central to our values. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We offer flexible working patterns to support work-life balance.

This role is subject to a DBS/PVG check. Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis, with opportunities to discuss this prior to a decision.