Trainee Dispensing Operative

Boots UK; Basingstoke; In loco; GBP 21.000 - 24.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced leave pay and gift card

Flexible benefits scheme

Counselling through TELUS Health

Descrizione del lavoro

Boots UK is hiring for a Regional Dispensing Hub role based in the UK. You will dispense prescriptions using advanced dispensing technology and support stock management to ensure rapid dispatch to Boots stores within 24 hours. Full training will be provided to achieve NVQ2 in Healthcare Services within six months.

The role offers a competitive hourly rate and benefits typical of Boots UK. Join a technology-driven, pharmacy–logistics hybrid operation that prioritizes accuracy and patient care

Competenze

• Drive to complete dispenser training and achieve NVQ2 within six months.
• Ability to work at pace with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong communication, punctuality and timekeeping.

Mansioni

• Dispense Boots prescriptions across the region using advanced dispensing technology.
• Support the Operations team with stock management as required.

Conoscenze

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Punctuality/timekeeping

Drive to train NVQ2

Formazione

NVQ2 in Healthcare Services

Descrizione del lavoro

The hourly rate for this role is £13.12.

The Boots Regional Dispensing Hub (RDH) is an advanced, semi-automated pharmacy. The hub is a pharmacy and logistics hybrid operation, utilising technology and automation to centrally fill repeat prescription scripts and dispatch to our stores within 24 hours of receiving the prescription. The Dispensing Hub will support our stores across the region, helping our healthcare teams spend more time with their patients and offer a greater range of services to their local community.

About The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of the future of dispensing medicines. The Regional Dispensing Hub is a unique and innovative environment with a mix of pharmacy and logistics elements. You will be part of a team dispensing Boots prescriptions from across the region using some of the most advanced dispensing technology to allow the team to dispense large volumes of prescriptions with industry leading levels of safety. You will also support the Operations team with stock management where required. Full training will be provided as you work to complete your training for NVQ2 in Healthcare Services.

What You Need To Have

• Drive and commitment to complete your dispenser training to achieve your NVQ2 in Healthcare Services within the first six months of your role
• Ability to work at pace
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication skills
• Punctuality and good timekeeping
• Able to follow and uphold health and safety standards and operational procedures to ensure the safe and legal dispensing of medicines and the welfare of your colleagues

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience working in a distance selling pharmacy.
• Experience within warehousing or logistics would be advantageous but isn't essential.

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including access to discounts and everyday savings
• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.