Overview
Community pharmacists are well-respected professionals within their local community who use their expert knowledge of medicines to help patients get the best possible care and outcomes from their medicines.
As a community pharmacist, you’ll be responsible for dispensing prescription and over-the-counter medicines that help people to maintain and improve their lives, in a cost-effective way. You will be responsible for constantly monitoring the quality, safety, and use of medicines, which requires a high level of interaction with patients, providing advice and information about the use of medicines and medical appliances.
As a community pharmacist, you will work alongside pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support staff, such as pharmacy assistants to deliver the pharmacy service. Each person is a high valued member of the pharmacy team. Your location of work will typically be a high street pharmacy, part of a chain or an independent, or you might work in a doctor’s practice or health centre.
Key responsibilities
As a community pharmacist, you’ll be responsible for:
Dispensing of prescription and over-the-counter medicines to the public
reviewing prescriptions from doctors to ensure accuracy and suitability for the patient, including the dosage, ingredients required, and correctly and safely labelled.
Supervise the preparation of any medicines when not supplied ready-made by manufacturers
Maintaining accurate pharmacy records, patient profiles, charge system files, and inventories
maintaining a register of controlled drugs for legal and stock control purposes
Liaising with doctors and other healthcare professionals to monitor, review and evaluate the effectiveness of medications
Advising the public on medicines, side-effects of medicines and the treatment of minor ailments
Providing advice on specialist health care issues, such as vaccinations, blood pressure, smoking cessation, cholesterol monitoring and diabetes
Screening
managing, supervising, educating and training pharmacy support staff
management of pharmacy finances and medicines budgets
ordering and purchasing pharmaceutical supplies, medical supplies, or drugs
maintaining stock and storing and handling it correctly
Working Schedule
Mondays morning shift 8am – 4pm & afternoon 2pm – 9pm
from Tuesday to Friday. alternate days 8am – 9pm aternate weekends 8-5pm
Resumption
Immediately
Salary
Attractive 150-220k
Workplace Type
On Site
