Whitewater Pharmacy – Hook

Job Description

Additional requirements are as follows:

• GPhC registered pharmacist
• Willingness and ability to train and develop your support team
• Deliver exceptional customer service and engage the local community to increase patient care and pharmacy services
• Flexibility over hours to suit a working rota including weekends and evenings

Main job duties include:

• dispense prescription medicines to the public
• ensure that different treatments are compatible
• check dosage and ensure that medicines are correctly and safely supplied and labelled (pharmacists are legally responsible for any dispensing errors)
• supervise the preparation of any medicines (not all are supplied ready made-up by the manufacturer)
• keep a register of controlled drugs for legal and stock control purposes
• liaise with doctors about prescriptions
• sell over-the-counter medicines
• advise the public on the treatment of minor ailments
• advise patients of any adverse side-effects of medicines or potential interactions with other medicines/treatments
• prepare dosette and cassette boxes, usually for the elderly, but also for those with memory/learning difficulties or who have several combinations of tablets to take, where tablets are placed in compartments for specified days of the week
• undertake Medicine Use Reviews (MUR), an advanced service to help patients understand how their medicines work and why they have to take them
• provide support through the New Medicine Service (NMS) to patients starting certain medicines to treat long-term conditions (England only)
• measure and fit compression hosiery
• offer specialist health checks, such as blood pressure and cholesterol monitoring and diabetes screening
• Be proactive in supporting the new services which will be active from next year
• run stop-smoking clinics and weight-reduction programmes
• arrange the delivery of prescription medicines to patients
• manage, supervise and train pharmacy support staff
• manage finance and budgets
• keep up to date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs and their uses

Employee Benefits

• An excellent salary depending on experience
• GPhC fees paid
• Discretionary bonus
• Fantastic career prospects and genuine opportunities for career development