As a community pharmacist your job is all about helping patients and the public, assessing their conditions and making decisions about which medicines they should take. You'll be involved in dispensing medicines safely and efficiently and offering your patients advice and practical help on keeping healthy.

Responsibilities:

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