Technician - Hickeys Balbriggan
Technician - Hickeys Balbriggan
Apply locations Hickey's Pharmacy Balbriggan Allcare Pharmacy Ballbriggan
Time type: Part time
Posted on: Posted 5 Days Ago
Job requisition id: JR-0000004249
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join the Hickey's Pharmacy team in Balbriggan.
Hickey's Pharmacy is an award-winning, Irish-owned community pharmacy group with 36 stores, over 370 employees and strong growth ambitions. As a pharmacist-led company, we understand the importance of delivering accessible healthcare and the critical role of the pharmacist in achieving this.
We're health people. If you want to deliver exceptional care in a supported environment with learning and development opportunities, then Hickey's could be the place for you.
Working as a Pharmacy Technician with Hickey’s
The role:
Our Pharmacy Technicians work as part of a dynamic team, supporting our Pharmacists dispensing prescriptions, delivering expert advice while working in a positive environment providing the best care to our customers at all times.
The responsibilities of the role:
* Be accurate with excellent attention to detail.
* Prepare and dispense medicinal products under the supervision of the Pharmacist in a caring and professional manner.
* Control stock levels and order medicines as determined by store requirements.
* Prepare blister packs and process and track claims.
* Report to and support the Pharmacist in a busy dispensary.
The behaviours we are seeking/encourage:
* Must have excellent communication skills and be capable of working on own initiative.
* Be flexible, friendly and approachable regarding your work.
* People-focused with an ability to effectively deal with our customers.
* Provide a professional and caring service to the local community.
* Engage actively with customers to encourage customer loyalty.
* Ability to prioritise and work under pressure.
* Lead team behaviour to ensure customers and colleagues always feel assured that they are at the core of our business.
* Listen to our customers, understanding what would make their lives better and finding ways to work with the business to deliver on this.
* Tailor conversations with every customer to ensure they leave our pharmacy feeling informed and confident about their healthcare needs.
* Build a strong working relationship with the Supervising Pharmacist and all team members in the pharmacy to ensure seamless delivery of service to our customers.
Must Have:
* Experience working in a busy dispensary is an advantage, but newly qualified technicians are welcome to apply.
* Experience with McLernons MPS (an advantage).
* IPU Pharmacy Technician course or Higher Certificate in Pharmacy Technician Studies is an advantage.
What we commit to you in return:
Our ambitious Pharmacy Technicians receive generous staff discounts in-store. We also operate a ‘refer-a-friend’ bonus scheme as well as participating in tax-saver travel schemes and PRSA pension arrangements. We reward our employees with additional long-service days as well as recognising other special occasions with additional annual leave e.g. getting married!
If you're a people person and have ambitions to join a progressive company, we'd love to hear from you today.
Hickey's Pharmacy is an equal opportunities employer.
About Us
Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.
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