Part Time Pharmacy Assistant jobs in Birmingham

Full Job Description

Your responsibilities and primary role of the position is a customer facing, front-of house role where you will be working on the Medicines Counter, serving customers and providing healthcare advice/treatment recommendations to them.

Responsibilities will include:

• Helping support the team to ensure excellent customer service is maintained and rapport is built with patients
• Providing medicines-related and healthy lifestyle advice to patients and to select and recommend suitable products, providing advice on their correct use
• Work with the team to ensure that the Pharmacy maintains its compliance and contract objectives e.g. date checking and Pharmacy Quality Scheme etc.
• To assist with stock control and the maintenance of reasonable stock levels within the retail environment and to ensure the safe and appropriate storage of medicines.
• To liaise with other healthcare professionals to assist in the continuity of patient care across primary and secondary care.
• Prescriptions - Collection of prescription from patients and handing out pre dispensed prescriptions ensuring you are taking correct charges/checking patient exemption statements
• Cash handling
• Cleaning work surfaces and shelving on a regular basis and ensuring that that all dispensary equipment is kept clean and kept in good working order.
• Undertaking other reasonable duties within the framework of the post as directed by the supervising pharmacist.

About you:

• Great Punctuality
• Excellent communication skills
• Being polite and friendly to customers
• Eloquent telephone manner
• Tidiness
• Methodical and accurate approach to practical tasks;
• Trustworthy and understanding of confidentiality issues;
• High level of concentration;
• Ability to work effectively to deadlines
• Excellent team working skills;
• IT knowledge

Essential experience:

• Good knowledge of over the counter medicines
• Precision - you need to be able to hand out medication to patients quickly and efficiently
• Maintaining the shop floor and arranging shelves as necessary
• Managing your own OTC stock
• Cleanliness of the shop
• Medicines counter assistant qualification (1 year +)

Job Type -

Part time 9-1.30 Monday- Thursday

Hours can be adjusted

Occasional Saturday 9-1 may be required.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: £12.71 per hour

Benefits:

• Free parking

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bournville: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Medicines counter: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person