Pay
Our Pharmacy Dispenser rate of pay starts from £12.87 an hour; this increases to £14.08 for stores inside the M25. Additional payments may also apply depending on location. We offer a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours each week. If you would like to work fewer hours (to a minimum of 12) we have opportunities for this too.
Availability Window
* Wed: 14:00 – 20:00
* Sat: 10:00 – 20:00
About the role
Customers are at the heart of everything we do. Discover what it’s like to work in a fast‑paced environment, where colleagues are focused on delivering a gold standard of service and patient care. Every day you’ll have the opportunity to make things better for customers in all sorts of ways, such as helping customers with their medicines, providing vaccinations, reviewing medicines, and checking blood pressure or blood glucose levels. It’s very much about supporting our communities by making the best healthcare choices available and convenient for local people.
You’ll work alongside experienced pharmacists and managers, receiving local management and leadership support in whatever store you are based. Our management team comes from a variety of backgrounds so there is always a chance to learn.
We are looking for talented and driven pharmacy professionals who can deliver the highest quality healthcare service to our customers. In return, we’ll provide a supportive team, detailed industry training and a varied working environment where no two days are the same.
Responsibilities
* Supporting the operation of one of our new modern pharmacies.
* Applying technical skills and strong customer focus to accurately dispense medication for our customers.
* Dispensing prescription medicines with attention to detail and accuracy.
* Talking to customers and offering information in a confident, friendly, and professional manner.
* Offering appropriate information to customers on common ailments, symptoms and products.
* Understanding customers’ needs, explaining product benefits, and only selling appropriate products.
* Advising customers on the range of pharmacy services available.
* Supporting and delivering pharmacy services and the dispensing process according to SOPs.
* Assessing the legal appropriateness of dispensed prescriptions.
* Dealing with clinical and legal queries from healthcare practitioners within competence.
* Responding to customer queries regarding prescription medicines and informing the pharmacist of any complaints.
* Ensuring all dispensary routines and SOPs are followed.
* Maintaining clean, tidy dispensary and consulting rooms.
* Ensuring accurate and timely prescription administration.
* Carrying out promotional activities and company initiatives.
* Protected profit and trade practices in all procedures.
* Completing corporate and departmental training.
* Keeping up to date with legal and professional developments in pharmacy.
Qualifications
* Qualifications gained from working in a pharmacy environment.
* A desire to train and develop into the pharmacy field.
Benefits
* Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays).
* Request flexible working from day one.
* 10% off and 15% at payday weekends – save up to £2,000 a year with Colleague Clubcard.
* Free wellbeing services.
* Life cover of five times your pay and an award‑winning pension with up to 7.5% matching contributions.
* Discounts, shares, cycle‑to‑work schemes and other personalised benefits.
* Uniform provided and supportive policies for all life’s moments.
* Access to colleague networks for support and inclusion.
Offer terms
If you are successful, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
About Us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.’ Serving means more than a transactional relationship – it means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, the communities we serve, and the planet.
Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and able to be yourself at work. We’re a place where everyone’s welcome.
We welcome flexible working discussions throughout your application, whether you’re just starting your career or juggling life‑changing moments.
We are proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we are committed to a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For more information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.
Eligibility
We will only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. To find out the school leavers age for your country please click here.
Applicants must be over the age of 18 if the role requires working before 6:15 am or after 9:45 pm, or involves operating in areas such as the warehouse, beer, wine & spirits, counters, bakery and driving roles.
On occasions where we have high volumes of applicants, some roles may close earlier than the advertised end date to manage all applicants appropriately. We will only be able to offer individual feedback to those candidates who attend an interview.
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