Pharmacy Technician

TN United Kingdom; Harthill; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading Pharmacy-led retailer in the UK, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring the safe and effective operation of the pharmacy. You'll lead the dispensary team, ensuring high standards of patient care and compliance with legal requirements. This is an exciting opportunity to advance your pharmacy career while making a positive impact on patients' lives. Enjoy a supportive and inclusive work environment with a range of benefits tailored to your needs.

Benefits

Competitive holiday allowance

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

Generous staff discount

Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Ability to implement pharmacy strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day running of the dispensary.
• Ensure legal, safe & ethical decision-making in the pharmacy.
• Deliver efficient dispensary operations.

Skills

Customer Care

Leadership

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services

Medicines Counter Assistant (NVQ2)

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The importance of your role.

Be part of our ambition to be the world’s leading Pharmacy-led retailer. Our patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we’re proud to offer legendary care every day; it’s what sets us apart from other UK Pharmacy chains.

This is a great opportunity to develop your Pharmacy career and make a difference to the lives of our patients.

How will you do it?

With a technical yet personable approach, you’ll inspire the pharmacy team around you, ensuring our standards reflect our care for patients. We aim to provide the very best service legally and ethically.

Accuracy and care define this role. You will ensure the safe and effective operation of the pharmacy and healthcare business, leading the daily management of the dispensary. You’ll be an expert in the technical aspects of medicine supply while delivering excellent patient care.

Guiding and supporting your pharmacy team, working closely with the Pharmacist and Store Leader, you’ll be influential in growing our business.

What you’ll be doing day to day.

You will help deliver the safe and effective running of the pharmacy and healthcare business, and lead the day-to-day running of the dispensary.

Your duties will include:

• Responsibility for legal, safe & ethical decision-making in the pharmacy.
• Delivering on-target delivery of items and services income.
• Complying with legal and professional requirements and accepted guidance on professional practice in Boots.
• Tailoring conversations with every customer to ensure they leave your pharmacy feeling informed and confident about their healthcare needs and coaching other pharmacy team members to do the same.
• Seeking opportunities to engage external stakeholders to secure locally commissioned services and drive services and items.
• Delivering efficient dispensary operations and minimizing dispensing losses.
• Ordering medicines, labelling, dispensing, endorsing and checking prescriptions.

What you’ll need to have.

We’re offering you an exciting career opportunity. It’s a chance to continue your professional and pharmacy journey. You will need an NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services (or equivalent), and be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

We value passion for customer care, leadership in the dispensary team, and the ability to implement pharmacy strategy.

To work within our dispensaries, you also need a Medicines Counter Assistant (NVQ2) qualification or equivalent.

You may wish to become an Accuracy Checking Technician (ACT); we provide training and support for this. Developing your healthcare knowledge through these roles will be reflected in your pay and benefits.

This is just one of several career routes within Boots!

Click here to explore your pharmacy career progression with us…

Our Diversity and Inclusion commitment.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are central to our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, embracing diversity and providing a positive, inclusive working environment. We offer flexible working patterns to support work-life balance.

This role may require a DBS/PVG check in certain locations. Boots is a Ban the Box employer and considers applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis, with prior discussion.

Our Benefits.

We offer a range of benefits that go beyond salary and support flexibility:

• Competitive holiday allowance (with options to buy more days)
• Boots Retirement Savings Plan pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption leave pay
• £100 gift card for colleagues expecting/adopting a baby
• Flexible benefits scheme (via salary sacrifice) including financial wellbeing, gym membership, holiday buying, dental cover, life assurance, restaurant discounts, activity passes, and more
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme offering free, confidential counselling 24/7
• Generous staff discount, including for Boots brands, Boot Opticians, and Boots Hearingcare
• Access to third-party discounts for retail, cinema, holidays, etc. (UK only)
• Access to the Boots Benevolent Fund for financial hardship support

*All rewards and benefits are subject to change and eligibility.