Apprentice Retail Pharmacy Assistant - Mapex Pharmacy - Bromley
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Company: MAPEX Pharmacy Consultancy Limited t/a Westchem Pharmacy
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Location: Bromley, BR2 0LY
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Type: Apprenticeship
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Salary: £172.00 per week
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Sector: Retail and Commercial Enterprise
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Ref: VAC-01119
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Application Deadline Date: 30/06/2022
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Start Date: 26/07/2022
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Positions Available: 2
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Working Week: Monday to Saturday, 8 hours per day
Brief Description
As a Courter and Dispensing Assistant you?ll be the first point of call when patients visit the pharmacy. You will be involved in giving healthcare advice and supporting pharmacy services. This involves working across the healthcare counter and the retail shop floor.
Qualifications Required
Flexible but must be able to read and write English and must be able to do basic addition and subtraction.
GCSEs at grades C/4 or above (or equivalent) in Maths and English.
Personal Qualities
Honesty
Willingness to learn
Show initiative
Ability to work under a certain amount of pressure
Good Customer Service
Friendly
Skills Required
Good communication skills
The ability to read and carry out instructions
The ability to pay attention to detail
Work in a team
Open to learning new models of care
Training to be Provided
Retail Level 2 Apprenticeship + 2 GPhC Accredited Courses delivered by the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) Medicines Counter Assistant and Accredited Dispensing Assistant Course.
Future Prospects
Career development to become fully qualified Dispensing Technician.
The vision of the pharmacy is to develop it into providing NHS clinical services, career pathway open for Practice/Pharmacy manager and/or dispensing Accuracy Checking Technician (ACT) and provide some of the NHS services.
Vacancy Detail
You will complete the following:
Retail Level 2 Apprenticeship + 2 GPhC Accredited Courses delivered by the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) Medicines Counter Assistant and Accredited Dispensing Assistant Course.
NPA Courses will commence around 8 weeks after you have been enrolled on the Retail Level 2 Apprenticeship. NPA Courses must be completed within the first 12 months of employment at the Pharmacy.
Your Retailer Level 2 Apprenticeship will be delivered by Qube Learning who are a National Training Provider. As a student within Qube Learning you will have a dedicated Skills Tutor who will visit you every 4-6 weeks and deliver a bespoke teaching and learning session.
Your Apprenticeship Training Programme + NPA Courses should be completed in around 15 months. Functional Skills (Maths and English) may form part of your programme.
Your role includes:
Pharmacy Counter Assistant: serving on the front counter of the pharmacy, sales, cash handling, taking prescriptions, ordering, cleaning & household duties and general retailing.
Dispensing Assistant: as above and working under the close supervision of the pharmacist to keep the dispensary clean, stocked up, assist with the ordering, using pharmacy computer to label and dispense prescriptions.
You'll work with the pharmacist to help with dispensing, ordering, stock keeping and assist the pharmacist to deliver NHS and private health services.
Other duties include:
- taking in and handing out prescriptions
- dispensing prescriptions
- using computer systems to generate stock lists and labels
- helping to maintain stock levels
- ordering items for use within a department
- receiving, loading, unloading incoming goods from wholesalers, manufacturers and elsewhere
- delivering pharmaceuticals and other goods to sites within a pharmacy department, and wards/departments/clinical areas
- selling over the counter medicines
- answering queries on the supply and availability of medicines,
- responding to telephone and face to face enquiries of a routine nature from patients and customers
- bringing any problems identified or queries raised to the attention of pharmacists or pharmacy technicians
- pre-packing, assembling and labelling medicines
- assisting with the manufacture of medicines
- ensuring that health and safety requirements are met