About the role
Our Pharmacy Dispenser rate of pay starts from £12.87 an hour, increasing to £14.08 for stores inside the M25. Additional payments may also apply depending on location.
It’s our policy to offer a minimum of 16 guaranteed hours each week; you may request fewer hours (to a minimum of 12).
The table below shows the periods of time in the week we’d like you to be available – the availability windows. We will schedule your contracted hours within these times, and you’ll receive three weeks’ notice of your exact shifts. We support flexibility for our colleagues, so if your available times closely match these windows, we’d still love to hear from you.
Availability Window
* Sun 10:00 – 16:00
* Mon 08:00 – 19:00
* Tue 08:00 – 19:00
* Wed 08:00 – 19:00
* Thu 08:00 – 19:00
* Fri 08:00 – 19:00
* Sat 08:00 – 19:00
Discover what it’s like to work in a fast‑paced environment where colleagues deliver a gold standard of service and patient care. Every day you’ll have the opportunity to improve customers’ lives by dispensing medicines, providing vaccinations, reviewing medication use, checking blood pressure or blood glucose levels, and supporting our communities with the best healthcare choices.
Responsibilities
* Support the operation of one of our new modern pharmacies.
* Apply technical skills and strong customer focus to accurately dispense medication.
* Dispense prescription medicines, ensuring attention to detail and accuracy are maintained at all times.
* Talk to customers and offer information in a confident, friendly and professional manner.
* Offer appropriate information on common ailments, symptoms and products.
* Understand customers’ needs, explain product benefits clearly, and only sell suitable products.
* Advise customers on the range of pharmacy services available.
* Support and deliver pharmacy services and the dispensing process according to the Standard Operating Procedures.
* Assess the legal appropriateness of dispensed prescriptions.
* Deal with clinical and legal queries from healthcare practitioners within your area of competence.
* Respond to customer queries about prescription medicines, inform the pharmacist of any complaints.
* Ensure all dispensary routines and SOPs are followed.
* Maintain clean, tidy and clutter‑free dispensary and consulting rooms.
* Ensure all prescription administration is accurate and completed on time.
* Promote company initiatives within the team.
* Carry out all procedures accurately to protect profit and trade safely and legally.
* Complete corporate and departmental training.
* Keep up to date with legal and professional developments in pharmacy.
Qualifications and Experience
* Qualifications gained from working in a pharmacy environment.
* A desire to train and develop into the pharmacy field.
What’s in it for you?
* Holiday starting at 20 days plus a personal day, rising to 22 days after 12 months (plus Bank holidays).
* Flexible working from day one.
* 10% off and 15% at payday weekends – save up to £2,000 a year with the Colleague Clubcard.
* Access to free wellbeing services.
* Life cover of five times your pay and a pension with matching contributions up to 7.5%.
* Benefits to suit you: discounts, shares, cycle to work schemes, etc.
* Uniform provided with policies to support all of life’s moments.
* Access to colleague networks providing a space for employees from diverse backgrounds.
About Us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, whether at home or on the move. Our core purpose is “Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.”
Diversity, equity and inclusion at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and to be yourself at work. We’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome.
We support flexible working for all life stages – whether you’re early in your career, looking for freedom, or balancing critical life moments.
We’re proud to be a Disability Confidence Leader and are committed to a fully inclusive recruitment process. Click here for more information on accessibility support.
We only recruit individuals who have passed the school leaver’s age. For the school leavers age for your country, click here.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com.
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