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# Trainee Dispenser – Pharmacy Team (NVQ2 Training Included)
### **Hourly Rate & Location**
- Salary range: £13.12 to £15.10 per hour (dependent on selected locations within London, UK).
- Remote applicants **not** considered.
- UK right to work **mandatory**.
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## **About the Role**
Career laddering into pharmacy tech and team leadership. **No experience required**—full training provided.
As a **Trainee Dispenser**, you’ll join our **pharmacy team**, supporting pharmacists and healthcare professionals to deliver safe, efficient patient care. Your core focus is helping patients with prescription dispensing, medicine advice, and self-care support.
This **in-store role only** offers:
- Guaranteed pathway to become a **Pharmacy Technician** or join store leadership
- Training toward an **NVQ Level 2 Pharmacy Advisor qualification**
- Hands-on experience with evolving store technologies (reducing errors, expanding patient time)
Key reportings: Pharmacist, store management.
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## **Your Key Responsibilities**
🔹 **Obtain NVQ2 Pharmacy Advisor qualification**
- Trained and assessed in store under supervised pharmacy teams
🔹 **Prescription workflow**
- Order, log, label, and verify medicines (with ** toho obligations**)
- Record dosing, endorsements, repeat prescription visits
- Ensure **GPhC compliance** for safe supply
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🔹 Patient-centric care
- Advise and listen to patients on medicine use, adherence, and lifestyle support (refer queries to registered pharmacist)
- Encourage Medicine Management Services (MMS), online repeats, and home delivery options
- Support seasonal campaigns (flu clinics, pharmacy checks, HIV testing)
🔹 Support pharmacy operations
- Maintain quality checks, staff training requirements, and filings
- Use digital systems to log consultations and document medicines use
🔹 Operational compliance
- Follow SOP for pharmacy, POS checkout, and store policies
- Contribute to store updates (e.g. new launch procedures)
- Feed back ideas to continually improve patient flow
What You’ll Need
Essential
- A loyalty to find the best path into pharmacy and complete the NVQ2 training
- Validity for living and working in the UK (Western mail applicants ineligible unless citing prior approved work status)
Helpful
- Prior community pharmacy or healthcare assistant experience (not essential!).
Our Benefits
- £1,200+ discretionary Christmas bonus paid upon joining
- 25% staff discount on in-store products & services
- Enhanced parental pay ($39K/9mths or $70K/15ths extended adoption weeks + £300 gift card on confirmation)
- Flexible benefits scheme (e.g. additional healthcare, phone, and pet discounts)
- 24/7 professional counselling through TELUS Health Employee Assistance Programme
- Applicability for Boots’ full range of rewards: learn more
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Our Values: Boots Changing for Better
We believe investing in people, not hours, drives our pharmacy mission to care and connect. Look beyond the labels—hiring diverse skillsets, celebrating achievement, and offering equal opportunities.
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Any externally quoted salary estimates are independent analyses unconfirmed by Boots.
All roles have potential to arm you to make a lasting difference.
Next Steps
- ** Submit your application** via Boots Careers Portal. timelines vary.
- If successful, a pre-employment check (DBS/PVG/Access NI dependent on location).
- **Interview **with manager focused on your approach to teamwork and passion for pharmacy.
- Conditional offer certified to start.
🏥 Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) harmonised accreditation—ensuring quality standards within Boots Pharmacy teams.
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