About the role
Availability Window
The table below shows the periods of time in the week we’d like you to be available to work:
Days From time To time
Thu 12:15:00 20:00:00
Fri 14:00:00 20:00:00
Sat 11:00:00 16:15:00
Our Pharmacy Dispenser rate of pay starts from £12.44 an hour; this increases to £13.57 for stores inside the M25. Additional payments may also apply depending on location.
It’s our policy to offer new colleagues joining us a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours each week, but if you’d like to work fewer hours (to a minimum of 12) we have opportunities for this too and would still love to hear from you.
We will schedule your contracted hours within these times, and you’ll have 3 weeks’ notice of exactly when your shifts will be. We are happy to support flexibility for our colleagues, therefore if the times you’re available to work match closely but not exactly to the times we are advertising, we’d still love to hear from you.
Customers are at the heart of everything we do.
Role Overview
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. You’ll have the opportunity to make things better for customers in various ways, such as helping customers with their new medicines, providing vaccinations, and reviewing customers’ use of their medicines.
Working alongside experienced Pharmacists and managers, you will receive local management and leadership support in whatever store you are based. Our management team comes from a variety of backgrounds, providing a chance to learn.
We are looking for talented and driven Pharmacy professionals who can deliver the highest quality healthcare service to our customers. In return, we'll provide a supportive team, detailed industry training, and a varied working environment where no two days are the same.
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
You will be responsible for
Pharmacy Assistants are integral to the running of our Pharmacies. We are looking for someone who is a team player, and can take on the following 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, ensuring attention to detail and accuracy are maintained at all times.
* Talking to customers and offering information in a confident, friendly, and professional manner.
* Offering appropriate information to customers on common ailments, symptoms, and products.
* Taking time to understand the customers’ needs.
* 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.
* 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.
* Completing corporate and departmental training.
* Keeping up to date with legal and professional developments in pharmacy.
You will need
* Experience or qualifications gained from working in a Pharmacy environment.
* A desire to train and develop into the Pharmacy field.
What’s 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.
* Access to free wellbeing services.
* Life cover of five times your pay and an award-winning pension.
* Benefits to suit you, choose what you use.
* Uniform provided.
* Access to our colleague networks.
About us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day’. 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.
We know life looks a little different for each of us. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about flexible working.
We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive recruitment process.
Please note that Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age.
On occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com.
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