Pharmacy Technician

TN United Kingdom; Oban; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading Pharmacy-led retailer in Oban as a Pharmacy professional. You'll oversee dispensary operations, ensuring safety and compliance while providing exceptional patient care. This role offers career development opportunities and a supportive environment focused on diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Competitive holiday allowance

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus scheme

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Generous staff discount

Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Genuine passion for customer care and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the safe and effective operation of the pharmacy.
• Lead daily dispensary activities and ensure compliance with standards.

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. Legally and ethically, we aim to provide the very best service.

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

Guiding and supporting your pharmacy team and 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 ensure the safe and effective running of the pharmacy and healthcare business, leading the dispensary operations daily.

Your duties will include:

• Responsibility for legal, safe, and ethical decision-making in the pharmacy.
• Achieving targets for delivery of items and services income.
• Complying with legal and professional standards in Boots.
• Engaging with customers to ensure they leave informed and confident about their healthcare, coaching team members to do the same.
• Seeking opportunities to engage external stakeholders to secure locally commissioned services and promote services and items.
• Ensuring efficient dispensary operations and minimizing dispensing losses.
• Ordering medicines, labelling, dispensing, endorsing, and checking prescriptions.

What you’ll need to have.

We offer an exciting career opportunity. You should have an NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services (or equivalent), and be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

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

Additionally, you need to have completed a Medicines Counter Assistant (NVQ2) qualification or equivalent to work within our dispensaries.

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 paths within Boots!

Click here to explore your pharmacy career 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, committed to 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 possible.

Our Benefits.

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

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

*All benefits are subject to change and eligibility.