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The hourly rate for this role is £12.69 and up to £14.05 across selected locations within London.
The importance of your role.
Exceptional patient-centred care is at the heart of everything we do. As a Pharmacy Dispenser, you’ll be part of helping patients feel good. This includes providing clear advice and care, as well as the wide range of dispensing services we offer.
To provide fantastic patient care, you will work across the healthcare counter and dispensary, focusing on patients' needs. This role offers a great opportunity to develop your pharmacy career and make a difference in patients' lives.
What you’ll be doing day to day.
Providing health advice through focused conversations with patients, offering clear and accurate answers.
Your duties will include:
1. Tailoring conversations with each customer to ensure they leave feeling informed and confident about their healthcare needs.
2. Handling technical dispensary tasks, ensuring the safe supply of medicines, including ordering, labelling, dispensing, endorsing, and collecting prescriptions.
3. Complying with legal and professional standards and guidelines in Boots.
4. Engaging with GPs and practice teams to promote services and products.
5. Ensuring efficient dispensary operations and minimizing dispensing losses.
What you’ll need to have.
We offer an exciting career opportunity. You should have an NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in Pharmacy Services and previous experience as a Pharmacy Dispenser.
To work in our dispensaries, you need a Medicines Counter Assistant (NVQ2) qualification or equivalent. If not, we will support your training within 6 months of joining.
If interested in career development, we support achieving NVQ Level 3 (QCF) in Pharmacy Services to register with GPHC as a Pharmacy Technician, potentially leading to an Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) role. Your pay and benefits will reflect your qualifications and roles as you progress.
This is one of several career routes within Boots!
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Our Diversity and Inclusion commitment.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, embracing diversity and providing a positive, inclusive environment. We offer flexible working patterns to support work-life balance.
This role may require a DBS/PVG check in certain locations. Boots is a Ban the Box employer and considers applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis. You can discuss this with us before a decision is made.
Our Benefits.
We offer a range of benefits that go beyond salary and provide flexibility to suit you:
* Competitive holiday allowance (with the option to buy more days)
* Boots Retirement Savings Plan pension scheme
* Discretionary annual bonus scheme
* Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption leave pay
* £100 gift card for colleagues expecting/adopting a baby
* Flexible benefits scheme (via salary sacrifice) including financial wellbeing support, gym membership, holiday buying, dental cover, life assurance, restaurant discounts, activity passes, and more (eligibility may apply)
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme offering free, confidential counselling 24/7
* Generous staff discount (with enhanced discounts for Boots brands, Boot Opticians, and Boots Hearingcare)
* Access to third-party discounts on retail, cinema, holidays, and more (UK only)
* Access to the Boots Benevolent Fund for support during financial hardship.
*All rewards and benefits are subject to change and eligibility.
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