Pharmacy Relief Dispenser

**About The Role**:
**A Special thank you**

Before we start to find out if we’re a good fit, we just wanted to say thank you. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, those working in Healthcare across the UK stood up to the plate and helped to protect the country and for that, we will always be grateful.

Shift pattern - Week 1 Friday 12:30 noon till 9pm and Saturday 8am till 12 noon

Week 2 Friday 5pm till 9pm and Saturday 11:30am till 8pm

**About the Role**

As one of our highly valued Healthcare Partners, you will be integral to the efficient running of our community or supermarket pharmacies across the UK. Supporting our customers on the shop floor, you will be providing life enhancing support and advice to improve people’s wellbeing whilst creating a warm and friendly environment to which they are keen to return to time and time again.

In this position, some of your responsibilities may include proactively providing customers with a complete customer service which finds them a solution tailored to their individual needs, ensuring all customers and patients receive safe and accurate advice - whether that is with the supply of over the counter (OTC) medicines, dispensing of prescribed medication or additional pharmacy services. Identifying and implementing actions which embed a culture of safer care in our pharmacies and support the pharmacy technician and your manager or pharmacist in building great relationships with the local GP surgery and with other healthcare professionals.
- This position is a Relief Dispenser role and you will be covering Blackpool, Thornton, Wigan, Chorley and Burnley.

You will require a valid UK Drivers License to put considered for this role and the payrate is up to £10.25 per hour plus fuel expenses.

**Why LloydsPharmacy?**

There’s a lot to discover at LloydsPharmacy. We have a wide range of exciting opportunities within off-site hubs, but also in pharmacy settings, hospitals, care homes, mental health facilities and prisons.
We don’t believe in standing still, which is why we are investing in our future. We have enhanced our IT capabilities, implemented a new pharmacy dispensing system and developed a number of HR tools to make your life easier. You’ll have access to training and development programmes at all stages of your career through one of our many pathways. Thereafter you will be supported to develop a career, either on one of our pharmacies or within the wider Lloyd’s Pharmacy network, the opportunities are endless. In addition, we offer:

- 25 days Holiday (plus Bank Holiday entitlement)
- Up to 50% staff discount at LloydsPharmacy in store and online
- Our Care Rewards - Cash back offers on high street retailers
- Full support from our employee assistance programme including a health and wellbeing app
- Company Pension

**About You**:
We are looking for positive and approachable people who can utilise their Level 2 or equivalent Healthcare Assistant and Dispenser qualification to enrich people’s lives. An adaptable and flexible mentality will be key, as well as a desire to embed newly acquired knowledge and skills.There is natural progression from this role into a Pharmacy Technician position, with full support on offer to complete the necessary qualifications.

To be successful in this role as a Trainee you must have the work ethic and determination to take advantage of the ‘on the job’ training provided, as well as being approachable, hands on and have a professional personality to enable you to thrive.

This role would also suit: Dispenser, dispenser, Pharmacy Dispenser, Pharmacy assistant, Dispensing, Dispensing assistant, Chemist assistant, hospital, hospital dispensers, hospital dispensing, Pharmacy, Tech, Technician, ACT, accredited checking technician

**About Us**:
LloydsPharmacy is a leading healthcare company, striving to break boundaries, challenge the status quo and support the changing healthcare industry. We are committed to offering the best advice and service to our patients, customers and employees with over 1,250 stores nationwide; accessibly located within local communities, health centres and online. Working as a key partner to the NHS, we dispense more than 150 million prescription items per year supported by over 11,000 colleagues. We also provide outpatient dispensing services in over 50 hospitals, and other pharmacy services to care homes, mental health facilities and prisons.

We are defined by our ICARE values and we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity & inclusion, taking a person-centred approach to our interview process that is fair and free from both discrimination and bias. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our talent acquisition team.