Qualified Pharmacy Dispenser – Full-time, Mon to Fri – Worthing

£13.50–£14.50 per hour depending on experience | 34–38 hours a week, negotiable | Monday to Friday | No weekends

Unicare Pharmacy is an independent, owner-led pharmacy on Rowlands Road, Worthing. We dispense NHS and private prescriptions, supply local care homes, and run a full set of NHS clinical services — Pharmacy First, hypertension case-finding, the NHS Pharmacy Contraception Service, the New Medicine Service, and flu and COVID-19 vaccination — alongside a growing private clinic (travel vaccinations, earwax removal, weight management, and more).

We need an experienced dispenser who can run a busy dispensary bench accurately and wants to be part of a pharmacy that does more than dispense.

The team

You'll work alongside two pharmacists, a pharmacy technician, four dispensers, and an apprentice. It's a small team: you work directly with the owner, your ideas get heard, and you're given responsibility as soon as you've shown you can handle it.

What you'll do

• Dispense NHS and private prescriptions accurately using EPS and Titan PMR (training given)
• Prepare MDS trays and manage care home orders
• Keep the dispensary running: ordering, stock control, date checks, owings, returns
• Resolve prescription queries with patients and GP surgeries
• Support our NHS and private services: booking patients in, blood pressure checks and fitting 24-hour monitors, and helping to deliver our private services as you are trained
• Help keep the pharmacy inspection-ready: SOPs, near-miss log, records

What you need

Essential

• Level 2 dispensing qualification — NVQ2 / Level 2 Certificate in Pharmacy Service Skills, or a GPhC-accredited equivalent (we will ask to see the certificate)
• At least one year's recent experience dispensing NHS prescriptions in a community pharmacy, so you already know EPS, owings and NHS prescription rules
• Willing to train for and deliver clinical services — this is not a dispensing-only job
• Accurate and organised, and calm when the bench is busy
• Confident with patients — at the counter, on the phone and in the consultation room

Desirable

• MDS and care home experience
• Accuracy Checking Dispensing Assistant (ACDA) qualification
• Supervisory or management experience

What you'll get

• £13.50–£14.50 per hour depending on experience, reviewed every April
• Monday to Friday, between 9am and 6pm. 34–38 hours a week — we'll agree the pattern with you. No weekends, no late nights. Paid overtime available if you want it
• 28 days' holiday including bank holidays (pro rata)
• Workplace pension
• All required training paid for
• Monthly team bonus linked to service targets
• The chance to apply for a funded Level 3 Pharmacy Technician apprenticeship after probation — for the right candidate and subject to a place being available
• Staff discount, and free parking within five minutes' walk

Unicare Pharmacy recruits on merit and welcomes applications from everyone.

Pay: £13.50-£14.50 per hour

Expected hours: 34.0 – 38.0 per week

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking

Experience:

• dispensing NHS prescriptions in a community pharmacy: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Level 2 dispensing qualification (required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $14 - $15