Trainee Dispenser
| Posting date: | 24 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £12.21 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £12.21 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 November 2025 |
| Location: | Lincoln, LN2 2RS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A1454-25-0007 |
Summary
Job Summary: To train to carry out the following: To provide timely, efficient and accurate dispensing of medication to the patients and to assist the Practice in ensuring effective financial control of the dispensary working to agreed practice Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) at all times. As a member of staff with direct contact with patients, to represent the practice in a friendly and professional manner at all times. Job Responsibilities: Dispensing Dispensing acute prescriptions. Dispensing repeat prescriptions requests received from telephone calls, electronically and in paper format for dispensing. Dispensing private prescriptions. Checking colleagues dispensing. Monitored Dose systems (MDS) dispensing and checking. Use of SystmOne stock control software for labelling. The correct endorsing of prescriptions at the time of dispensing. The dispensing of all controlled drugs and the maintaining of accurate controlled drug ledgers at all times. Ensuring the Dispensary area remains clean and tidy. Make sure adequate supply of stationery i.e. computer labels/prescription Prescriptions Handing out prescriptions and collecting charges when appropriate. Taking prescription repeats requests over the telephone and at the dispensary hatch. Collecting private charges for black listed medications, vaccines and holiday prophylactic medication. Sorting, stamping and endorsing prescriptions. Ensuring that the reverse of all prescriptions are completed correctly at the time of collection by a patient. Generating prescriptions. Answer patient queries on medication in liaison with the doctors Liaise with Practice Nurses for stock and prescription orders Answering of SystmConnect queries Sending of SMS texts via SystmOne as necessary Stock Control Ordering appropriate quantities of goods via the wholesalers computer link. Checking goods as and when they are delivered. Returning incorrect goods to the wholesalers. Cleaning, stocking shelves, refrigerators and other storage areas using rotation method. Removing out of date stock from the shelves, refrigerators and other storage areas. Disposal of returned unused medicines and out of date stock. Dispensary Administration The post holder at times will be required to undertake dispensary administration tasks which may include any of the following: Reconciliation of wholesaler invoices or contractor invoices Maintaining of MDS patient details and medication. Ordering of dispensary consumables such as bags, labels, MDS trays etc Ordering of dispensary stationery Monthly balancing of the controlled drug registers Destruction of returned controlled drugs from patients