The successful candidate should ideally:
- Have good qualifications;
- Be hard working and have a little of the ‘perfectionist’ about them;
- Have a good amount of knowledge on medicine;
- Have a experience of working in a retail pharmacy or in retail store;
- Have good communication skills and have good teamwork skills;
- Exude enthusiasm, ambition and a commitment to their own continuous professional development.
» Job description and Person Specification for Shelf Stacker
This is a part time job for anyone above the age of 16. This job includes carrying bulk items and putting them on to shelves. The employee will work 19.5 hours per week and will be paid £5.50 per hour on a weekly basis.
Typical work activities include:
- Unloading products
- Stacking shelves
- Cleaning and tidying
- Checking stock
- Checking quality of products
- Taking products over sell by date (display by date) off shelves
Interview is required. Clothes which cover whole body (e.g. trousers, jumpers, long shirts) and protective shoes should be worn.
The successful candidate should ideally:
1. Be strong enough to carry heavy items (up to 7 kg)
2. Be hard working and have a little of the ‘perfectionist’ about them;
3. Be healthy (not have any back problems, etc…);
4. Have good communication skills and have good teamwork skills;
6. Exude enthusiasm, ambition and a commitment to their own continuous professional development.
» Job description and Person Specification for Dispenser Assistant
You assist in providing outstanding customer care and an efficient dispensing service. Your main job will be using the cash register and handling money. Interview is required. The employee is required to wear smart clothes.
It's about customers
You’ll assist in providing outstanding customer care and contribute to a professional pharmacy service that exceeds customer expectations. Excellent customer care will drive profitable sales.
It's about dispensing
You’ll assist in delivering the dispensing activities accurately and safely, protecting confidentiality, so that the prescription is delivered according to customer needs.
It’s about standards…
You’ll comply with the code of ethics, professional standards, relevant legislation and company procedures, to deliver required standards of clinical governance.
It’s about learning…
Always looking for ways to gain and apply professional knowledge within the store, you’ll share your knowledge with other colleagues every day.
It’s about best practice…
You’ll identify and recommend any areas for operational or professional improvement and take action together with your pharmacist.
It’s about teamwork…
You’ll spot ways of helping your colleagues to deliver the best results, and take action where necessary, so that you provide the very best pharmacy service to your customers.
The successful candidate should ideally:
1. Have good qualifications;
2. Be hard working and have a little of the ‘perfectionist’ about them;
3. Have a fair amount of knowledge on medicine;
4. Have a fair amount of experience of working in a retail pharmacy or in retail store;
5. Have good communication skills and have good teamwork skills;
6. Exude enthusiasm, ambition and a commitment to their own continuous professional development;
7. Have good mathematical skills;
8. Know how to use a basic cash register.
Staff Recruiting Process –
- Potential employee interested sends in a CV and Cover Letter.
- Once accepted, potential employee will be contacted to organise interview.
- After interview takes place I will decide weather or not to recruit the potential employee.
- If accepted, employee will be contacted again to receive info and NI number, and will tell them when to come into work.
- Employee comes into work
- Staff Recruiting Process over.
The following are the vacancy ads which I will be putting in the job centre and in newspapers or magazines. Putting these ads in newspapers will cost about £45 per month per ad for 2 month’s. It will cost me £5 for 25 copies of one ad and £5 for the other 25.
Employee CV (Curriculum Vitae)
Jake McDury
Personal Details
Address
54 High Road
Leyton, London
E10 7DA
Telephone: 02085645343
Email: [email protected]
Qualities
I am an honest person and can be trusted to do what I say I will do.
I have very good math skills
I am confident and have good communication skills
Skills
I am good at talking to different sorts of people. I can work well in a team and am good at using computers.
Education History
George Mitchell School
Leyton
From Sep 1991 to 1996
Qualifications
English Language & Language GCSE A
Maths GCSE A
iMedia B
Double Science A
Business Studies GCSE A*
Pharmacy Services NVQ Pass
Work History
21 Jun 2007 to 3 Jul 2008
Sainsbury’s
Sales assistant
I helped stack shelves and did a project to find out about equal opportunities at Sainsbury’s.
4 Jul 2008 to Present Boot’s
Medicine Dispenser
I dispensed medicine to customer, sold medicines and cosmetics and gave advice to customers.
Interests
I enjoy playing all sorts of sport and like to be a member of a team. I like camping and walking in the hills. I enjoy working on a computer.
References
References are available on request.
CONTRACT OF EMPLOYMENT
1. Names of the contracted parties
1.1. Between: LEYTON H PHARMACY (the ‘Employer’)
89 High Road – Leyton E10 6DD
1.2. And: JAKE MCDURY (the ‘Employee’)
54 High Road – Leyton E10 7DA
2. Starting date of the Employee
2.1. Employment Start Date: 2ND December 2008
3. Job title and description
3.1. The Employee’s job title is: Assistant Dispenser
3.2. The Employee’s main task is to assist the Medicine Dispenser in making over-the-counter sales of medicine and prescriptions.
4. Address of the workplace
4.1. The Employee will work from: 89 High Road, Leyton E10 6DD
5. Salary
5.1. The Employee’s salary is £11040 per annum. Payments are monthly by BACS (Money Transfer) directly in to your bank account. If you do not have a bank account you will need to open one.
6. Hours of work
6.1. The Employee’s working week will consist of 35 hours, from Monday to Friday and from 10am to 6pm and 5 hours on Saturday and Sunday, from 11am to 3pm on Saturday and 12pm to 2pm on Sunday. There is a 1 hour lunch break: Times will be discussed with the employer.
6.2. From time to time, the Employee may be asked to work outside of the contracted hours. An hourly rate of £5.40 will be paid for overtime.
7. Holiday entitlement
7.1. The Employee is entitled to 2 weeks (14 days) paid holiday per annum. At the end of 2.5 years service an extra days holiday entitlement is given – followed by a further 1 days holiday entitlement for each of the next 4 years service: bringing maximum holiday entitlement to 4 weeks (28 days).
8. Sickness entitlement
8.1. Contractual Sick Pay: the Employee will receive their normal salary for a period of 4 weeks, in any 12 month period where a doctor’s certificate is produced after 7 consecutive day’s sickness. Payments will be less Statutory Sick Pay and any Social Security benefits due to the Employee.
9. Pension
9.1. A Stakeholder pension scheme is provided for all employees. Details will be made available on starting employment.
10. Grievance procedure
10.1.1 In all but one instance, the Employee must report any grievance to their immediate supervisor. Where and only where, the grievance is with the immediate supervisor, the Employee can make their grievance known to the immediate supervisor of the Employees supervisor.
11. Disciplinary procedure
11.1. Where the Employer believes that the Employee has acted in an unfit way in the course of carrying out their duty, or the Employee brings the Employers business in to disrepute, the Employee will face a disciplinary inquiry.
11.2. If the Employee is found to have committed a minor misconduct, the Employer has the option of a verbal warning (in writing), or a written warning depending on the severity of the misconduct.
11.3. If the Employee is found to have committed gross misconduct, the Employer has the option of a verbal warning (in writing), a written warning, a final written warning, or instant dismissal. The Employer also has the option to suspend the Employee where the Employer needs to make an inquiry into the misconduct.
12. Notice periods required from both the Employee and the Employer
12.1. The minimum notice periods are as follows:
Time in Employment - Minimum Notice
Under 1 month - No Notice
Over 1 month - 1 Week
2 years’ service - 2 Weeks
3 to 12 years’ service One week for each year to a maximum of 12 Weeks.
12.2. The Employee must send a copy of their notice to the company’s address, as 1 above.
12.3. The Employer will send a copy of the notice to the Employees address, as 1 above.
12.4. In the case of the Employee being dismissed for gross misconduct, the Employer will decide if any notice period will be applied and/or worked.
I agree to the above terms and confirm I have received a copy of this Contract.
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Signed by the Employee
Dated……………………………….…….
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Signed by or on behalf of the Employer
Dated……………………….…………….
Note: The Employee is to receive a copy of the Contract when signed by both parties.
Legislation (Equal Opportunity Laws)
My business will have to comply with the following opportunity laws when recruiting staff.
Religion and Beliefs Discrimination Act (2003)
- This act stops employees from being discriminated because of their religion and their beliefs;
- Stops you being bullied at work because of your religion and beliefs.
- This means that I will have to make sure that me (The ‘Employer’) and my staff does not discriminate customers or other staff because of their religion or their beliefs.
Sex Discrimination Act (1975)
- This law makes sure men and women are treated the same.
- It also makes sure you are not discriminated because you are married or because of your gender reassignment
- This act also stops employers from ‘harassing’ (e.g. behaving in an offensive manner, or encouraging or allowing other people to do so (for example, making sexual remarks or gestures, allowing displays or distribution of sexually explicit material, or giving someone a potentially offensive nickname because of their gender) employees.
- This means that I will have to make sure that me (The ‘Employer’) and my staff does not discriminate customers or other staff because of their gender.
- Sexual discrimination includes not giving men and women fair treatment at the workplace.
Age Discrimination Act (2006)
- This law makes sure that there is no age discrimination when employing staff.
- It also ensures that elderly people over the retirement age (65) are not dismissed without a valid reason.
Race Relations Act (1976)
- This law makes sure the following does not happen.
- “ A person discriminates against another in any circumstances relevant for the purposes of any provision of this Act if—
- (a)on racial grounds he treats that other less favorably than he treats or would treat other persons; or
- (b) he applies to that other a requirement or condition which he applies or would apply equally to persons not of the same racial group as that other but—
- which is such that the proportion of persons of the same racial group as that other who can comply with it is considerably smaller than the proportion of persons not of that racial group who can comply with it; and
- (ii) which he cannot show to be justifiable irrespective of the colour, race, nationality or ethnic or national origins of the person to whom it is applied; and
- (iii) which is to the detriment of that other because he cannot comply with it.”
Equal Pay Act (1970)
- This law makes sure that men and woman receive the same pay for similar (same jobs);
- Ensures women are treated the same as men.
Disability Discrimination Act (1995)
- This law ensures that disabled people are not treated differently because of their disability;
- This law also makes sure that disabled people have the same opportunity to be employed by a business.