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Sector: Health and Medical
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
About the role
Availability Window:
1. Sun: 10:00 - 16:00
2. Mon: 14:00 - 20:00
3. Wed: 09:00 - 16:00
4. Fri: 14:00 - 20:00
5. Sat: 14:30 - 20:00
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.
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 customers' use of their medicines, and checking blood pressure or testing for blood glucose levels.
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 so there is always a chance to learn.
We are looking for talented and driven Pharmacy professionals who can deliver the highest quality healthcare service to our customers, and 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:
1. Supporting the operation of one of our new modern Pharmacies.
2. Applying your technical skills and strong customer focus to accurately dispense medication for our customers.
3. Dispensing prescription medicines, ensuring attention to detail and accuracy are maintained at all times.
4. Talking to customers and offering information in a confident, friendly and professional manner.
5. Offering appropriate information to customers on common ailments, symptoms, and products.
6. Taking time to understand the customers' needs, explaining the benefits of the products in a way they understand.
7. Advising customers on the range of Pharmacy services available.
8. Supporting and delivering Pharmacy services and the dispensing process according to the Standard Operating Procedures.
9. Assessing the legal appropriateness of dispensed prescriptions.
10. Dealing with clinical and legal queries from Healthcare practitioners within the area of competence.
11. Responding to customer queries in relation to prescription medicines.
12. Ensuring all dispensary routines and Standard Operating Procedures are followed.
13. Ensuring dispensary and consulting rooms are clean, tidy, and free of clutter.
14. Ensuring all prescription administration is accurate and completed on time.
15. Bringing promotional activities and company initiatives within the team to life.
16. Carrying out all procedures accurately to protect profit and ensure we trade safely and legally.
17. Completing corporate and departmental training.
18. Keeping up to date with legal and professional developments in pharmacy.
You will need:
1. Experience or qualifications gained from working in a Pharmacy environment.
2. 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're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
Please note: Tesco will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver's age.
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