Pharmacy Counter Dispensing Assistant Apprenticeship

5 months ago


Sunderland, United Kingdom Million Medical Full time

**Company description**

At Million Pharmacy, we work hard to provide an excellent service to customers and to always be a friendly face in the neighbourhood. Customers can expect to be treated as part of the family and we pride ourselves in ensuring that we hold your best interest at heart; providing you the health care and advice that you need. We provide a great range of healthcare services, from ordering and delivering your prescriptions, advice on smoking cessation to regular reviews of your current medication to ensure that you get the best out of your treatment. Many of our services are free of charge and our friendly team members are always ready to assist you with advice on your health matters. To find out more about the other services that we provide, please come by and speak to our team members. Here at Million Pharmacy, we believe that living by strong values is the key to building good relationships with our customers. -To maintain our caring family philosophy -To deliver high standards of customer service -To always provide you the best professional advice on health matters We would most certainly like to get to know you better so do come by and meet our friendly pharmacy team.

**Job description**

**Full Job Description**
Have you left school or are you at college and you are not happy with the direction you have taken? Would you like to know about carriers in pharmacy? (Our apprenticeship provider has training vacancies ).You will be put on a course that meets the legal requirement to qualify to work in a pharmacy dispensary.
Our Pharmacy assistants/ Dispensers work as part of a pharmacy team under the direction of a registered pharmacist.
The work includes:
Taking in and handing out prescriptions, dispensing prescriptions, using computer systems to generate stock lists and labels, ordering items, receiving, loading, unloading deliveries, delivering medicines to nearby surgeries or patients, selling over-the-counter medicines, answering customers questions face to face or by phone, pre-packing, assembling and labelling medicines, preparing medicines, referring problems or queries to the pharmacist.
It would be an advantage if you if you are a bubbly, cheerful character willing to learn to provide a fast and friendly service.
Pharmacy assistants work as part of healthcare teams liaising with hospital colleagues when patients are admitted or discharged from hospital or routinely with GPs and GP teams, Community Nursing teams and Social care plus other community pharmacies.
Entry requirements:
GCSE or equivalent qualifications.
Skills and personal characteristics:
Pharmacy assistants need to be accurate and methodical, responsible, pay attention to detail, able to understand law and guidelines on medicines, able to read and carry out instruction, be interested in peoples health, able to explain clearly to members of the public.
They will also need excellent communication, customer service, IT, manual skills.
Training and development:
You will be given the training you need to be a member of the pharmacy team and to be aware of data protection and confidentiality. This includes health and safety, use of IT, over-the-counter medicines training and dispensing prescriptions.You will be offered the chance to study for qualifications such as:
NVQ level 2 in pharmacy service skills BTECH level 2 in pharmaceutical services.
Career progression in this profession will include a chance to study to become a Registered Pharmacy Technician which paves the way for becoming as Accredited Checking Technician.
The employment will be for a fixed duration to achieve the minimum qualification to work in a pharmacy (12 to 16 months) with a prospect of consideration for full time thereafter.

Work remotely
- No

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Apprenticeship

Pay: £5.28-£8.00 per hour

Expected hours: 30 - 40 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- On-site parking

Flexible Language Requirement:

- English not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Yearly bonus

**Experience**:

- Pharmacy: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person



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