At a Glance
- Tasks: Dispense prescriptions, provide patient care, and manage medicines effectively.
- Company: Join Boots, a leading pharmacy team dedicated to healthcare services.
- Benefits: Enjoy a generous staff discount and enhanced maternity/paternity leave pay.
- Other info: Role requires travel across defined geographical areas within the UK.
- Why this job: Make a difference daily by supporting patients in their health decisions.
- Qualifications: Must have completed the Pharmacy Advisor qualification NVQ2 or equivalent.
The predicted salary is between 13.92 - 16.64 £ per hour.
Hourly rate for this role: £13.92 to £16.64 (selected locations in London).
About The Opportunity
As a Relief Dispenser, you will work across different stores within a defined geographical area. You will be a key member of our pharmacy team, supporting the pharmacist and other healthcare professionals to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of pharmacy and healthcare services. Working within the healthcare department of the store, you will spend your time building great relationships with patients by listening and understanding their needs. From greeting customers, dispensing prescriptions and ensuring the safe sale of medicines, to providing advice using your healthcare knowledge to support patients in making informed decisions about their health and wellness – you’ll get to make a difference every day.
This is a role based within the UK. Remote applicants will not be considered and applications from candidates outside the UK will not be progressed unless relevant UK qualifications and right to work can be confirmed and evidenced.
Key Responsibilities
- Prescription dispensing whilst ensuring the safe supply of medicines: ordering medicines, labelling, dispensing, endorsing and collection of prescriptions.
- Work with other healthcare professionals in the store to assist in the management and delivery of pharmacy services.
- Provide care and advice to patients about medicines and refer queries to the pharmacist as appropriate.
- Follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to support the safe and legal dispensing of prescriptions.
- Keep up to date with new innovations in store and comply with operational processes.
- Support patients to manage their prescriptions their way with reliable repeats and manage medicines effectively to promote adherence and reduce waste.
- Communicate with the store teams to ensure continuity of care.
- Working with evolving technologies within store, you will have the opportunity to work with new systems, which helps to develop traditional dispensing processes to further improve patient safety and release your time to spend more time with patients.
- You will be provided with regular updates and training to develop your healthcare knowledge, as well as plenty of career development options including the opportunity to train as a Pharmacy Technician or as part of the store leadership team.
Qualifications
- Completed the Pharmacy Advisor qualification NVQ2 (or equivalent).
- Ability to travel across the defined geography with full flexibility.
- Current and valid UK right to work. This role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa.
Desirable
- Experience working in community pharmacy.
Benefits
- Discretionary Christmas Gift Payment.
- Generous staff discount.
- Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child.
- Flexible benefits scheme.
- Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.
We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards.
Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate. Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case‑by‑case basis.
Relief Dispenser in Liverpool employer: Boots UK
Boots offers a competitive hourly rate of £13.92 to £16.64 in London. Employees benefit from flexible perks like a discretionary Christmas gift payment and access to 24/7 counselling support. The pharmacy team is committed to improving patient safety through innovative technologies.
