Dispenser

**About the Role**:
The main responsibilities of the role include:

- Checking all medicines dispensed, ensuring there are no discrepancies
- Dispensing medicines to the entitled population safely and accurate
- Collecting prescription charges in accordance with dispensary protocol
- Maintaining stock levels within the dispensary, liaising with the dispensary manager to facilitate reordering
- Receiving and storing supplies in accordance with current policy, ensuring the cold chain is maintained where applicable
- Ensuring controlled drugs are dispensed in accordance with practice policy
- Ensuring safe disposal of returned and/or out of date medicines
- Ensuring all repeat prescriptions are processed within the practices published timeframe
- Providing patients with advice regarding all prescription matters
- Processing prescription requests via online and repeat prescription slips
- Processing MDS Trays
- Assisting in the preparation of monthly returns
- Maintaining a clean and safe working environment at all times
- Maintaining accurate records at all times, read coding entries appropriately

Please see full job description attached.

Experience within healthcare would be preferred, however, if you have the following attributes, this would be a great opportunity for you to train as a dispenser:

- An eagerness to learn,
- Good interpersonal and telephone skills,
- An aptitude for computer work,
- Enjoy working as part of a team,
- Really want to make a difference.

**About Us**:
We are committed to personal development for all staff, have enviable staff retention and a good and supportive team ethos. Teamwork and collaboration is the core of the practice and we have an excellent reputation for patient care and accessibility.

We offer a very competitive salary including access to the NHS pension scheme.

**Disclosure and Barring Service Check