Pharmacy Dispensing Assistant in Leicester

Real Living Wage | £16,380 per annum | 25 hours per week

Spirit Health is on a mission to make healthcare easier and fairer with a personal approach. We’re looking for a Pharmacy Dispenser to make a real difference. We need people who move quickly, think sharply, and care deeply.

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days leave plus bank holidays. Option to buy 5 extra days (FTE).
• Time off is important! You always get your birthday off.
• Enhanced pay for maternity, adoption, shared parental and paternity leave.
• Bonus scheme to benefit from our success.
• Recognition scheme that rewards brilliant work.
• Flexible working opportunities to align with your lifestyle.
• Death in service.
• Car scheme.
• Award-winning wellbeing initiatives.
• Access to many other benefits, including lifestyle discounts, emergency loans, eyecare vouchers, mental, wellness, financial and legal support.

An award-winning, fun and rewarding culture where you make a genuine difference to patients and healthcare teams every day.

The role

• Support the efficient delivery of a distance-selling pharmacy dispensing service in line with established Standard Operating Procedures.
• Dispense medication safely and accurately, ensuring clinical safety and adherence to pharmaceutical protocols.
• Ensure the timely packing, dispatch and delivery of prescribed medications to patients across England.
• Provide healthcare advice and patient support via telephone and electronic communication channels.
• Manage operational and clinical queries from healthcare practitioners, GPs and other medical professionals.
• Complete prescription administration accurately, ensuring all documentation and processing is completed within required timeframes.
• Dispense medication into monitored dosage systems, including blister packs and compliance aids, in line with pharmacy protocols.
• Pack medications into appropriate delivery packaging, preparing orders safely for distribution to patients and community settings.
• Maintain high standards of operational excellence through quality control, attention to detail and continuous improvement.
• Undertake reasonable additional duties to support pharmacy operations and team objectives as required.
• Adhere to all Company policies and procedures, including equal opportunities, health and safety and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure compliance with pharmaceutical regulations, including MHRA guidelines, clinical governance standards and professional dispensing requirements.

This role is for someone ready to grab an opportunity and run with it. If this feels like the challenge you’ve been waiting for, get in touch.

Who we need

• Qualified pharmacy dispenser with a minimum of NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Pharmacy Services, or an equivalent dispensing qualification.
• At least one year’s dispensing experience within a pharmacy or similar healthcare environment.
• Strong expertise in safe medication dispensing, including monitored dosage systems, blister packs and compliance packaging.
• Up-to-date knowledge of pharmaceutical regulations and current legal and professional developments within the pharmacy sector.
• Confidence in handling clinical and operational queries from patients, healthcare professionals, GPs and medical practitioners.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you:

• You're a brilliant self-starter. You set high standards and never settle for "good enough".
• You're love teaming up, but equally comfortable working independently.
• You’re ready to make a difference in healthcare.
• You're not afraid to speak up, ask questions and challenge the status quo.
• You thrive on challenge, moving forward, and are happy to adapt to a fast-paced environment.

Who are Spirit

We're challengers on one mission: make health easy. We build smarter medicines management, digital monitoring, and patient education tools that improve patients’ lives and simplify work for clinicians. Trusted by the NHS for over 15 years, we are scaling.

Through Spirit Health Foundation, we're extending that mission to underserved communities globally. Early detection. Better access. Healthier lives for all.

With big ambitions and global impact, we need brilliant people to help us deliver. Our hiring process is fast, fair, and fearless. We ask great questions, give real challenges, and move quickly, so you’ll always know where you stand.

Think you’ve got the Brilliance, Family, and Vigour to match? Click apply. Let’s make health easy, together.

Closing date for applications is 23/02/2026.

Any questions? Email People@spirit-health.com.

Successful applicants will be subject to pre-employment checks including a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland.

We are an equal opportunity employer.