Pharmacy Technician

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

Job summary

Join a leading Pharmacy-led retailer in the UK, where you'll oversee dispensary operations and ensure excellent patient care. This role offers a chance to develop your pharmacy career while leading a dedicated team in a supportive environment. With a focus on legal and ethical standards, you'll engage with customers and drive business growth. Enjoy a range of benefits, including competitive holiday allowance and flexible working patterns.

Benefits

Competitive holiday allowance

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus scheme

Enhanced leave pay for Maternity/Paternity/Adoption

Flexible benefits scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Generous staff discounts

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Experience in managing dispensary operations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily dispensary activities and ensure compliance.
• Engage with customers for informed healthcare decisions.
• Manage legal and ethical decision-making in pharmacy.

Skills

Leadership

Patient Care

Communication

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

Accuracy and care are essential. You will oversee the safe and effective operation of the pharmacy and healthcare business, leading the daily dispensary activities. You’ll 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 play a key role 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 services, managing the dispensary daily operations.

Your duties will include:

• Responsibility for legal, safe, and ethical decision-making in the pharmacy.
• Achieving targets for delivery of items and service income.
• Ensuring compliance with legal and professional standards in Boots.
• Engaging with customers to ensure they leave informed and confident about their healthcare, and coaching team members to do the same.
• Seeking opportunities to collaborate with external stakeholders to secure locally commissioned services and promote services and products.
• 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 to advance your pharmacy journey. You should have an NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services (or equivalent) and be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Beyond experience, we’re looking for passionate individuals who support and lead the dispensary team and implement pharmacy strategies in collaboration with colleagues.

You also need to have completed a Medicines Counter Assistant (NVQ2) qualification or equivalent to work within our dispensaries.

Potentially, you may wish to become an Accuracy Checking Technician (ACT); we can provide training and support for this. As you develop your healthcare knowledge through these qualifications and roles, this will be reflected in your pay and benefits.

This is just one of many career paths within Boots!

Click here to explore how your pharmacy career can progress 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 work 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 will consider applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis, with prior discussion encouraged.

Our Benefits.

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

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

*All benefits are subject to change and eligibility.