Pharmacy Dispenser

Tesco; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading retail chain in the UK is seeking a Pharmacy Dispenser to support pharmacy operations. This role includes accurately dispensing medication and providing customer care. The starting pay is £12.87 per hour, increasing for certain locations. Applicants should possess qualifications gained from working in a pharmacy and a desire to develop their pharmacy knowledge. Flexibility in working hours and a friendly environment are key aspects of this position.

Benefits

20 days holiday (increasing to 22 after 12 months)

Flexible working options

Discounts at Tesco

Qualifications

• Experience working in a pharmacy setting is essential.
• Willingness to train and develop in the Pharmacy field.

Responsibilities

• Support the operation of the pharmacy.
• Dispense medication with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Provide information and advice to customers regarding products.

Skills

Customer focus

Technical skills

Education

Qualifications gained from working in a Pharmacy environment

Job description

Pay

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.

Working Hours

Our policy is to offer new colleagues a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours each week, but if you would like to work fewer hours (to a minimum of 12) we also have opportunities.

We have labelled times (availability windows) below. We will schedule your contracted hours within these times and give you three weeks' notice of exactly when your shifts will be. We support flexibility, so if your availability is close to but not exactly the times we advertise we still love to hear from you.

Availability uma

• Sunday: 10:00 – 16:00
• Tuesday: 14:30 – 20:00
• Friday: 08:00 – 12:00
• Saturday: 13:00 – 18:00

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.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the operation of one of our new modern Pharmacies.
• Applying your technical skills and strong customer focus to accurately dispense medication for our customers.
• Dispensing prescription medicines with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Talking to customers and offering information in a confident, friendly and professional manner to create a great service.
• Offering appropriate information to customers on common ailments, symptoms and products.
• Taking time to understand the customers’ needs, explaining the benefits of the products in a way they understand and only selling products that are right for the customer.
• Advising customers on the range of Pharmacy services available.
• Supporting and delivering Pharmacy services and the dispensing process according to Standard Operating Procedures.
• Assessing the legal appropriateness of dispensed prescriptions.
• Dealing with clinical and legal queries from Healthcare practitioners within area of competence.
• Responding to customer queries in relation to prescription medicines, informing the Pharmacist of any complaints.
• Ensuring all dispensary routines and SOP are followed.
• Ensuring dispensary and consulting rooms are clean, tidy and free of clutter.
• Ensuring all prescription administration is accurate and completed on time.
• Bringing promotional activities and company initiatives within the team to life.
• Carrying out all procedures accurately to protect profit and trade safely and legally.
• Completing corporate andინცtraining.
• Keeping up to date with legal and professional developments in pharmacy.

Qualifications

• Qualifications gained from working in a Pharmacy environment.
• A desire to train and develop into the Pharmacy field.

Benefits

• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months-ġ plus Bank holidays.
• Request flexible working from day one.
• escenarios 10% off and 15% at pay‑day weekends – save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard; plus 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 providedarniy 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. For more information about our colleague networks please click here.
• Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues.

About Us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome.

We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life‑changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

Accessibility & Inclusivity

We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

Legal and EEO

Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please click here.

We can only accept candidates over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 a.m. or after 9:45 p.m. or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits(Positivo), counters, bakery and driving roles রেখ.

On occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date to manage all candidates appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.

For more information about us, please visit www.tescoplc.com.