Pharmacy Dispensing Assistant

3 days ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Rizwan's Pharmacy Full time

An oppurtunity has arisen for a qualified dispensing assistant/technician to join our team. The sucesful candidiate will need to be qualified to at least level 2 and will have good knowledge and experince working within a fast paced pharmacy enviroment. You will be responsible for preparing and supplying medicines. You will be a key member of the pharmacy and multidisciplinary team and play a vital role in helping patients get the best outcome from their medicines. The role involves liaising with patients, other healthcare professionals and customers to ensure the effective and safe use of medicines.

Pharmacy assistants/technicians work under the supervision of a pharmacist and are registered healthcare professionals that are responsible and accountable for their own accurate and safe practice.

**Key responsibilities**
- providing safe and effective pharmacy services
- supplying medicines and medical devices to patients, whether on prescription or over the counter and providing information on symptoms and products
- achieving the best outcomes through a patient’s medicines
- assembling and accuracy checking medicines for prescriptions
- providing information to patients, carers and other members of the healthcare team
- managing areas of medicines supply such as dispensaries
- supervising other pharmacy staff
- responding to patients’ and customers’ questions both face to face and over the phone
- pre-packing, assembling and labelling medicines
- referring problems or queries to the pharmacist

In addition, as a pharmacy technician you need to be:

- Responsible, accurate and methodical
- Able to pay close attention to detail
- Ready to refer to the pharmacist when necessary
- Able to understand law and guidelines on medicines
- Able to read and follow instructions
- Interested in people’s health
- Able to explain clearly to members of the public
- Able to demonstrate excellent customer service skills
- Able to demonstrate excellent organisational, science and manual dexterity skills

**Salary**: From £10.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Store discount

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Manchester, M34 2AF: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Pharmacy: 2 years (required)

Work Location: One location


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