Trainee Pharmacy Advisor

Boots Opticians; Yeovil; On-site; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Trainee Dispenser to join their team. This exciting role offers the chance to provide exceptional patient care and support within a pharmacy environment. You will engage with customers, deliver health services, and ensure the safe supply of medicines. With full training provided, this is a fantastic opportunity to kickstart your career in pharmacy, develop your skills, and work towards recognized qualifications. If you are passionate about healthcare and eager to make a difference, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support

Qualifications

• No previous experience required; full training provided.
• Passion for customer care and ability to build relationships.

Responsibilities

• Provide fantastic patient care and healthy lifestyle advice.
• Comply with legal and professional requirements in pharmacy.

Skills

Customer Care

Communication Skills

Pharmacy Knowledge

Teamwork

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services

NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services

Job description

Job Description

The hourly rate for this role is £12.60 and up to £14.13 across selected locations within London. The hourly rate will increase after 6 months in role.

No previous experience is required, and full training will be provided.

The importance of your role.

Fantastic customer care is at the heart of everything we do, and as a Trainee Dispenser you’ll be part of helping patients feel good. It’s everything from the clear advice and care you offer them, to the wide ranges of dispensing services we provide.

To provide fantastic patient care as a Trainee you will work across the healthcare counter and the dispensary to where the patients need you most. This is a great opportunity to develop your pharmacy career and make a difference to the lives of our patients.

How will you do it?

With different types of pharmacies all over the UK, we’re giving patients the very best care and attention with the services we offer. You will be providing healthy lifestyle advice and health services to our patients across a number of store locations. You’ll do this through great conversations as well as delivering the technical aspects of supplying medicines.

This is often a fast paced environment, and you will interact with many different people, and will be a core member of the pharmacy and healthcare team.

Your duties will include:

• Learning how to tailor conversations with every customer to ensure they leave your pharmacy feeling informed and confident about their healthcare needs.
• Working towards delivering the technical aspects of the dispensary whilst ensuring the safe supply of medicines e.g. ordering medicines, labelling, dispensing, endorsing and collection of prescriptions.
• Complying with legal and professional requirements and accepted guidance on professional practice in Boots.
• Seeking opportunities to engage with GPs and practice teams to promote services and items.
• Working towards delivering efficient dispensary operations and ensuring dispensing losses are minimised.

What you’ll need to have.

We’re offering you an exciting career opportunity and a chance to continue your professional journey. You will need to be prepared to work towards an NVQ Level 2 equivalent in Pharmacy Services once you start in role.

But it isn’t just about experience or knowledge, we’re looking for people with a genuine passion for customer care, and who will be ambassadors for healthcare in our stores. You will have the ability to build excellent relationships with patients and your team and will be able to understand individual patient needs and tailor your support and advice appropriately. You will have the ability to advise patients with confidence and accuracy whilst remaining customer focussed.

If you are interested in further developing your professional career, we can support you towards achieving both competency and knowledge based NVQ Level 3 (QCF) qualification in Pharmacy Services to become eligible to register with the GPHC as a Pharmacy Technician. This could then lead to an Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) role. As you continue to develop your healthcare knowledge through these qualifications and roles, your pay and benefits will reflect this.

Our Diversity and Inclusion commitment.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the centre of everything we do in our business. 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. We offer a variety of flexible working patterns to support our colleagues to achieve a good work life balance.

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme
• 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. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Business Area

Pharmacy

Function

Pharmacy Support Colleagues

Keywords

Dispenser, pharmacy dispenser, trainee dispenser, pharmacy support, Medicine, Medicines

Hours per week

5.5

Shift Pattern

Weekends

Company

UK Stores

Division

16 - United Kingdom

Region

8 - South

Area

183 - Dorset

Store

305 - YEOVIL

Req Posted Date

21-Mar-2025

County

Somerset

Country

UK

Address 1

37 Middle Street

Address 2

Yeovil

Address 3

Somerset