LloydsPharmacy Reviews

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Old fashion business model with most of the pharmacies near nursing homes

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No nights or weekends day time work only I live in the rural area..

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Little room for career progression once you are in a certain role.

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didn't have proper training - no training- was just told what to do and first time was shown after that when I was asked to do it again had to recall myself the steps with no guidance/ supervision /double-checking if done correctly. I have been working for the company for at least 3-4 years now and I have not progressed or taken any training courses to be qualified to do half of the things I am doing right now. no pay rise

in my 1st store [was also my first job ever] my title was a dispensing assistant however, I was the sole dispenser and was not trained or put on the dispensing course at all (till this day I an unqualified dispenser that dispenses with no supervision) and I had to work with a pharmacist who didn't know a lot about the pharmacy and how they manage things. So he would always ask me questions and the problem with that is if we worked together on Saturday because it would be only us 2 and we didn't have much experience in that pharmacy.

The 2nd store, the manager said I didn't need to take the dispensing course, even though she changed my title to 'dispenser' and gave me a 2pence wage rise. Again I was thrown to the deep end and was rushed to get familiar with everything-there were a lot of rules and exceptions that were not explained to me properly- and everyone in one week to take over every Saturday as well due to no one wanting it. Everything was different in this store and nothing was done remotely similar to the previous store I worked at so took me a while to get the hang of it and they didn't like that so I was pushed around to do odd jobs that no one wanted to do (anything other than dispense) which was a bad move as when they were behind with the dispensing they tell me to dispense and then indirectly complain on how slow I was or if I make a mistake -when they all make mistakes like mine.

3rd store, again no training - they didn't know I worked with Lloyds before and assumed that I don't have experience in pharmacy. So I thought maybe this time I will get training if they think I am clueless, but I wasn't given training even thought they say you need to do your training but everyone is too busy to train me, the manager doesn't do her jib and runs around trying to do 20 things at once and gets in everyone's business but never gets her list of jobs done.

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its too far for me to travel every day so i had to leave. shame

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Poor management poor wages terrible work enviroment

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1. Some of the online systems for ordering pharmacy essentials are not easy to use and can be confusing.
2. The real estate within the pharmacy is not adequate for the number of staff.
3. Confusion can occur regarding queries initiated by one shift and not fully communicated to the next shift of colleagues where action is required.

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Not professional. They can't communicate between departments. Don't chase anything up as they say. Poor availability always waiting for them to pick up

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Underpaid,overworked,health and safety issues in stores rubbish bonus scheme targets unachievable they just want more and more with no praise or recognition

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routine work, lack of final authority