Role: Pharmacy Assistant
Location: Nationwide
Time: 12-month Apprenticeship
You may not already know, but we are the largest British owned pharmacy chain in the UK. With nearly 760 branches, we have plenty of opportunities!
We are not just about dispensing medicines. We believe in listening to our customers and giving them personal advice on lifestyle and health issues. Because of the extra care we take with our customers, we are leading the industry, achieving 91% customer satisfaction!
We are bringing in new ideas and services, updating our branches and investing heavily in training our people, from launching an apprenticeship programme like this to leadership programmes for managers and professional development for pharmacists.
So, what a great time to join our Apprenticeship Academy as a Pharmacy Assistant: the first point of contact for customers who are looking for good service and sound advice. You will be selling over-the-counter medicines and providing our customers with expert advice regarding their health and well-being, so this role is quite a responsibility. We will help you by giving you plenty of training and lots of support to achieve your qualification. This will ensure that you are able to recommend the right products and ensure that our customers get the professional advice they need.
Co-operative Pharmacy promotes the development of apprenticeships by ensuring all eligible branch colleagues that are recruited are offered the opportunity to undertake an apprenticeship.
Apprentices in Co-operative Pharmacy are now being recruited through standard pharmacy recruitment. If you would like a pharmacy based role you should keep looking in your local area at job centres, local press and at your local Co-operative Pharmacy branch.
You local branch will give you details of how to apply for an available vacancy. If you would like a role in our Central Support or Distribution functions these roles are in a variety of support functions and are based in Rochdale and Stoke only. Please search for available vacancies at www.co-operative.jobs/pharmacy