Retail Assistant London, England
Job description
About The Role
As one of our highly valued Healthcare Partners, you will be integral to the efficient running of our community or supermarket pharmacies across the UK. Supporting our customers on the shop floor, you will be providing life enhancing support and advice to improve people’s wellbeing whilst creating a warm and friendly environment to which they are keen to return to time and time again.
In this position, some of your responsibilities may include proactively providing customers with a complete customer service which finds them a solution tailored to their individual needs, ensuring all customers and patients receive safe and accurate advice - whether that is with the supply of over the counter (OTC) medicines, dispensing of prescribed medication or additional pharmacy services. Identifying and implementing actions which embed a culture of safer care in our pharmacies and support the pharmacy technician and your manager or pharmacist in building great relationships with the local GP surgery and with other healthcare professionals.
This position is also open to non-qualified trainee candidates, training will be provided to gain the relevant qualification and experience to the right candidate.
Why Lloyds Pharmacy?
There’s a lot to discover at Lloyds Pharmacy. We have a wide range of exciting opportunities within off-site hubs, but also in pharmacy settings, hospitals, care homes, mental health facilities and prisons.
We don’t believe in standing still, which is why we are investing in our future. We have enhanced our IT capabilities, implemented a new pharmacy dispensing system and developed a number of HR tools to make your life easier. You’ll have access to training and development programmes at all stages of your career through one of our many pathways. Thereafter you will be supported to develop a career, either on one of our pharmacies or within the wider Lloyd’s Pharmacy network, the opportunities are endless. In addition, we offer:
• 25 days Holiday (plus Bank Holiday entitlement)
• Up to 50% staff discount at Lloyds Pharmacy in store and online!
• Our Care Rewards – Cash back offers on high street retailers
• Full support from our employee assistance programme including a health and wellbeing app
• Company Pension
About You
We are looking for positive and approachable people who can utilise their Level 2 or equivalent Healthcare Assistant and Dispenser qualification to enrich people’s lives. An adaptable and flexible mentality will be key, as well as a desire to embed newly acquired knowledge and skills. There is natural progression from this role into a Pharmacy Technician position, with full support on offer to complete the necessary qualifications.
To be successful in this role as a Trainee you must have the work ethic and determination to take advantage of the ‘on the job’ training provided, as well as being approachable, hands on and have a professional personality to enable you to thrive.
This role would also suit: Dispenser, dispenser, Pharmacy Dispenser, Pharmacy assistant, Dispensing, Dispensing assistant, Chemist assistant, hospital, hospital dispensers, hospital dispensing, Pharmacy, Tech, Technician, ACT, accredited checking technician
About Us
LloydsPharmacy is a leading healthcare company, striving to break boundaries, challenge the status quo and support the changing healthcare industry. We are committed to offering the best advice and service to our patients, customers and employees with over 1,250 stores nationwide; accessibly located within local communities, health centres and online. Working as a key partner to the NHS, we dispense more than 150 million prescription items per year supported by over 11,000 colleagues. We also provide outpatient dispensing services in over 50 hospitals, and other pharmacy services to care homes, mental health facilities and prisons.
We are defined by our ICARE values and we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity & inclusion, taking a person-centred approach to our interview process that is fair and free from both discrimination and bias. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our talent acquisition team.
