Dispensing Assistant

3 weeks ago


NewarkonTrent, United Kingdom Avicenna Full time

Dispensing and Medicines Counter Assistant

Competitive Hourly rate

Initially zero hours contract to cover staff holiday and absence

Avicenna Retail Limited have a fantastic opportunity for a Dispensing and Medicine Counter Assistant.

This is a great opportunity for someone who wishes to develop within the Pharmacy Industry.

What you can expect:
As an Medicines Counter Assistant, you will be the first point of contact with our customers, providing them with the best possible advice or refer them to the Pharmacist if appropriate. Promoting Pharmacy services and following the appropriate protocols. Key responsibilities will be:

- To manage the queues and patient expectations.
- Manage patient confidentiality
- The safe selling of medicines
- To ensure that the pharmacy environment is welcoming, clean and professional
- To ensure all the retail shelves are faced up and gaps are double faced
- Once qualified - dispensing prescriptions and providing advice to patients and customers

What’s in it for you?

Medicine Counter Assistants are our customer facing employees, and key to our success. We know how important it is to reward the great work they do. We have a range of benefits that go beyond salary and offer flexibility to suit individual needs. These include:

- Competitive hourly rate
- Staff discount
- Accredited training initially as MCA and then Level 2 NVQ Dispenser course

As a growing Company you will also be able to develop your career with a wide variety of opportunities available.

What you need

To be successful in this role you will be a team player who loves dealing with customers. Someone who wants to learn and develop. In addition, you will ideally have:

- experience of working in a retail environment
- experience of working with tills and handling money

Full training will be provided.

About Avicenna

Avicenna is here to Make Pharmacy Better. Better for Our People, Better for Our Patients, Better for Our Planet.

We Make Pharmacy Better by having a lasting Impact on the lives of our communities, providing the best care, growing our reach to more patients, and being smarter in safety and innovation.

We are the UK’s fastest growing group of community pharmacies and the country’s largest buying group, with over 139 pharmacies and over 1200 independent members.



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