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Salary
The hourly rate for this role is £12.69 and up to £14.05 across selected locations within London.
The importance of your role
Exceptional patient-centred care is at the heart of everything we do. As a Pharmacy Dispenser, you’ll help patients feel good through clear advice, care, and a wide range of dispensing services. You will work across the healthcare counter and dispensary to meet patients' needs, providing an excellent opportunity to develop your pharmacy career and make a difference.
What you’ll be doing day to day
Providing health advice through focused conversations with patients, offering clear and accurate answers.
Your duties will include:
1. Tailoring conversations to ensure customers leave feeling informed and confident about their healthcare needs.
2. Managing technical dispensary tasks, including ordering medicines, labelling, dispensing, endorsing, and collecting prescriptions.
3. Ensuring compliance with legal and professional standards and guidance.
4. Engaging with GPs and practice teams to promote services and products.
5. Ensuring efficient dispensary operations and minimizing dispensing losses.
What you’ll need to have
We offer an exciting career opportunity. You should have an NVQ Level 2 equivalent in Pharmacy Services and previous experience as a Pharmacy Dispenser. Completion of a Medicines Counter Assistant (NVQ2) qualification or equivalent is required; we will support your development if you haven't completed this yet.
If interested in career progression, we support achieving NVQ Level 3 (QCF) in Pharmacy Services to register with GPHC as a Pharmacy Technician, potentially leading to an Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) role. Your pay and benefits will reflect your professional development.
This is one of several career routes within Boots. Explore how your pharmacy career can progress with us...
Our Diversity and Inclusion commitment
We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, offering flexible working patterns to support work-life balance. This role may require a DBS/PVG check in certain locations. Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis, with prior discussion encouraged.
Our Benefits
We offer a range of benefits beyond salary, including:
* Competitive holiday allowance (with the option to buy more days)
* Boots Retirement Savings Plan pension scheme
* Discretionary annual bonus scheme
* Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
* £100 gift card for colleagues expecting/adopting a baby
* Flexible benefits scheme (via salary sacrifice) including financial wellbeing, gym membership, holiday buying, dental cover, life assurance, restaurant discounts, activity passes, and more
* Access to Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 confidential counselling
* Generous staff discount, with additional discounts for Boots brands and services
* Access to third-party retail, cinema, holiday discounts
* Support from the Boots Benevolent Fund during financial hardship
*All benefits are subject to change and eligibility.
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