Badham Pharmacy is a family owned chain of 27 pharmacies across Gloucestershire and Bristol, serving patients since 1940, and with a long history of exceptional patient-centred care.
This vacancy is in our Church Road branch in Bishops Cleeve and will be 37.5 hours a week. Hours of work would be Monday to Friday (shifts between the hours of 08.00am and 19.00pm with at least 1 19.00pm finish), 2 in 4 Saturdays 0900-17.30pm (with a day taken off in the week as lieu), and Sunday cover 11am-1pm and 6-7pm on a rota basis. We can consider part time applicants providing you are able to work the majority of the shift requirements
Our starting rates of pay are competitive starting £13.46 per hour and are based on experience. In addition we offer 29 days holiday a year (inclusive of all bank holidays), 20% discount in all of our shops, CUSHON pension scheme, discretionary Christmas bonus, and Blue Light Card membership (applied for separately)
The role is very rewarding, and you will make a difference to the patient healthcare of your local community
As part of your duties you will assist in the running of the robot, including deblistering, replenishing and dispensing dosette trays, and take responsibility for tray changes, taking phone calls and liasing with the surgery, as well as ordering and processing tray scripts and sending this over to the robot
The Dispensing Assistant is an integral member of the pharmacy team. You are one of the first people many customers will see when coming into the pharmacy, speak to when seeking healthcare advice and interact with when collecting a prescription or ask for help when they wish to purchase a medicine. In addition you can expect your day to day duties to include:-
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Manufacturing dosette trays for our local community patients who need extra support in organising medication
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Downloading and preparing prescriptions that have been sent from a local surgery or a customer has arrived to collect
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Supporting the medicines counter assistant and pharmacist in their roles
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Having effective conversations with customers, ensuring that they get the right level of care and medication for their needs
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Engaging with customers , around the large amount of additional services that we offer, including the Pharmacy First scheme
As a qualified dispenser you will have an NVQ2 in dispensing either the National Pharmacy Association (or equivalent provider).
We also like to progress our own staff through their careers and can actively support with enrolments onto the NVQ3 technician course, Accuracy Checking for Dispensers (ACD) or Accuracy Checking Technician (ACT) courses
We expect this to be a popular position therefore we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the closing date. Please only apply if you are able to work the hours stated above
Badham Pharmacy is an equal opportunities employer, embracing diversity among our teams and we encourage applications from all.
