Pharmacy Dispenser

Tesco Plc; Northampton; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in Northampton is looking for a Pharmacy Dispenser. In this role, you will support pharmacy operations, dispense medication, and provide exceptional customer service. Qualified candidates should have experience in a pharmacy environment and a strong desire to develop in the field. This role offers competitive pay starting at £12.87 per hour and various benefits including flexible working and life cover.

Benefits

20 days holiday plus personal day

10% discount for employees

Access to wellbeing services

Life cover and award-winning pension

Uniform provided

Qualifications

• Experience working in a Pharmacy environment.
• Desire to train and develop in the Pharmacy field.

Responsibilities

• Support the operation of modern Pharmacies.
• Dispense medication accurately and provide excellent service.
• Offer information to customers on common ailments and services.

Skills

Customer service

Medication dispensing

Communication skills

Education

Qualifications from Pharmacy environment

Job description

Pharmacy Dispenser - Northampton South Extra

Tesco Northampton, England, United Kingdom

About the role

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. 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 patients’ use of medicines, and checking blood pressure or testing for blood glucose levels. It’s about supporting our communities by making the best healthcare choices available and convenient for local people.

Availability Window

• Sun: 10:00 – 16:00
• Wed: 12:45 – 19:00
• Thu: 07:45 – 15:45
• Fri: 08:00 – 14:00
• Sat: 14:45 – 20:00

It’s our policy to offer new colleagues a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours each week, but we also have opportunities for those who want 12 hours.

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.

You will be responsible for

• Supporting the operation of one of our modern Pharmacies.
• Applying your technical skills and strong customer focus to accurately dispense medication for our customers.
• Dispensing prescription medicines, ensuring attention to detail and accuracy are maintained at all times.
• Talking to customers and offering information in a confident, friendly and professional manner, providing our customers with a great service, making them want to visit our Pharmacy again.
• 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 the 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 Standard Operating Procedures 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 ensure we trade safely and legally.
• Completing corporate and departmental training.
• Keeping up to date with legal and professional developments in pharmacy.

You will need

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

Whats in it for you?

• Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays).
• Request flexible working from day one.
• Get 10% off and 15% at pay day weekends – save up to £2,000 a year with your Colleague Clubcard with 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 provided 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.

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.

Accessibility

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.

Please note: 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 am or after 9:45 pm or involves working in areas such as the warehouse, beers, wines & spirits, counters, bakery and driving roles.

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