Pharmacy Dispenser Apprentice (orderline Ltd T/a Church Pharmacy)

About the role

Pharmacy Assistant 💊

Ready to kickstart your career in healthcare? We're looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our pharmacy team! As a Pharmacy Assistant, you'll play a crucial role in ensuring our patients receive the best care.

What you'll be doing:

• Prescription Powerhouse: Help us receive, understand, and process prescriptions with a watchful eye and under expert guidance. 📜
• Medicine Maestro: Accurately prepare medications for our pharmacists' final check. You'll be part of the final puzzle piece! 📦
• Tech Savvy: Dive into our pharmacy computer system to create labels, update patient records, and keep things running smoothly. 💻
• Problem Solver: Spot any medication questions, prescription hiccups, patient worries, or potential errors? Flag them to our pharmacist or supervisor. 🚩
• Safe & Sound: Support the safe handover of prescriptions, following our established procedures to a T. ✅
• Customer Champion: Offer a friendly, professional, and helpful experience to every patient and customer who walks through our doors. 😊
• Information Guru: Handle general queries like a pro and know when to direct clinical or more complex questions to the pharmacist. 🧠
• Stock Superstar: Receive, check, store, and manage stock deliveries, keeping an eye on expiry dates, stock levels, and making sure we have what we need. 🛍️
• Tidy Titans: Help maintain a clean, organized, and safe dispensary and pharmacy environment. ✨
• Rule Follower: Adhere to all standard operating procedures, health and safety guidelines, safeguarding protocols, and confidentiality rules. 🔒
• Safety First: Report any near misses, incidents, or potential errors according to our company procedures. Your vigilance is key! 🚨
• Learning & Growing: Complete all required training, coursework, and workplace assessments within the agreed timelines. We're invested in your development! 📚
• Team Player: Collaborate with the entire pharmacy team to deliver efficient, safe, and patient-centered services. Together, we make a difference! 🤝

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn, grow, and contribute to a vital service. If you're a responsible, detail-oriented, and customer-focused individual, we want to hear from you!

Key responsibilities

• Assist with receiving, interpreting and processing prescriptions under appropriate supervision.
• Accurately assemble medicines ready for final checking by the team.
• Use the pharmacy computer system to produce labels, update patient records and support prescription processing.
• Refer medication queries, prescription issues, patient concerns or potential errors to the pharmacist or supervisor.
• Support the safe handout of prescriptions in line with workplace procedures.