Locum Pharmacist

Nelsons - the home of Rescue Remedy; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading company in natural health is seeking a Locum Pharmacist to provide cover for the Superintendent Pharmacist. The role involves overseeing pharmacy operations, advising clients, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Ideal candidates will have a pharmacy degree and strong interpersonal skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in pharmacy business or health-related retail environment.
• Up-to-date CPD records to remain on the Pharmacy register.

Responsibilities

• Oversee pharmacy operations and dispensary.
• Advise clients and fulfill prescriptions.
• Support the Superintendent Pharmacist with various tasks.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication

Organizational Skills

Customer Service

Education

Pharmacy Degree

Job description

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Locum Pharmacist - 1 day a week (Wednesday) plus holiday cover

Reporting to: Superintendent Pharmacist

Role Description

This role encompasses a variety of tasks in the Pharmacy and the main purpose is to provide cover for the Superintendent Pharmacist. Duties include overseeing pharmacy operations and dispensary and providing support and direction for the Mail Order and Pharmacy Homeopaths. The locum Pharmacist is responsible for upholding standards of practice in the Pharmacy in line with GPhC an GMP principles.

Key Responsibilities/Duties

• Keeping up to date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs and their uses;
• Advising clients and fulfilling prescriptions. This will include:
• Taking prescriptions, over the phone, in the Pharmacy premises and from the clinic whilst liaising with doctors and homeopaths about prescription queries.
• Advising patients of any adverse side-effects of medicines with homeopathy or potential interactions with other medicines/treatments;
• Ensuring tact, sensitivity and empathy when communicating with patients in distressing or emotional situations over the phone, in writing and/ or over the counter.
• Advising the public on the treatment of minor ailments/acute cases. Chronic cases and diseases are referred to the customer/patients own GP/homeopath or referred to the Pharmacy.

Dispensing, this will include:

• Checking dosage and ensuring that medicines are correctly and safely supplied and labelled.
• Dispensing NHS and private prescriptions taken from over the phone, the clinic and over the counter.
• Help dispense orders for mail order and website.
• Oversee the safe storage of homeopathic remedies/products for the dispensary.
• Supervise the preparation of any medicines and authorise sale of Pharmacy medicines ("P").

To ensure all necessary administration is kept in order and compliant. This will include:

• Maintaining records, scanning in prescriptions .
• Managing and maintaining statistical data as required to provide monitoring and evaluation reports in accordance with the Client's requirements.
• Submitting NHS prescriptions for the FP34C Submission Documents.

Support the Pharmacy with ad-hoc work. This will include:

• Supporting the Pharmacy retail area.
• Answering phone calls from customers.
• Helping support the Superintendent Pharmacist with any reasonable requests.
• Managing, supervising and training Pharmacy Homeopaths
• Promoting prescription sales and developing the business.
• To be innovative by developing new ways of working to meet the needs of patients and team.

Locum Pharmacist - 1 day a week (Wednesday) plus holiday cover

Reporting to: Superintendent Pharmacist

Responsible for: Pharmacy cover for Superintendent Pharmacist

Location: 87 Duke Street Pharmacy London, W1K 5PQ - On site

Role Description

This role encompasses a variety of tasks in the Pharmacy and the main purpose is to provide cover for the Superintendent Pharmacist. Duties include overseeing pharmacy operations and dispensary and providing support and direction for the Mail Order and Pharmacy Homeopaths. The locum Pharmacist is responsible for upholding standards of practice in the Pharmacy in line with GPhC an GMP principles.

Key Responsibilities/Duties

• Keeping up to date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs and their uses;
• Advising clients and fulfilling prescriptions. This will include:
• Taking prescriptions, over the phone, in the Pharmacy premises and from the clinic whilst liaising with doctors and homeopaths about prescription queries.
• Advising patients of any adverse side-effects of medicines with homeopathy or potential interactions with other medicines/treatments;
• Ensuring tact, sensitivity and empathy when communicating with patients in distressing or emotional situations over the phone, in writing and/ or over the counter.
• Advising the public on the treatment of minor ailments/acute cases. Chronic cases and diseases are referred to the customer/patients own GP/homeopath or referred to the Pharmacy.

Dispensing, this will include:

• Checking dosage and ensuring that medicines are correctly and safely supplied and labelled.
• Dispensing NHS and private prescriptions taken from over the phone, the clinic and over the counter.
• Help dispense orders for mail order and website.
• Oversee the safe storage of homeopathic remedies/products for the dispensary.
• Supervise the preparation of any medicines and authorise sale of Pharmacy medicines ("P").

To ensure all necessary administration is kept in order and compliant. This will include:

• Maintaining records, scanning in prescriptions .
• Managing and maintaining statistical data as required to provide monitoring and evaluation reports in accordance with the Client's requirements.
• Submitting NHS prescriptions for the FP34C Submission Documents.

Support the Pharmacy with ad-hoc work. This will include:

• Supporting the Pharmacy retail area.
• Answering phone calls from customers.
• Helping support the Superintendent Pharmacist with any reasonable requests.
• Managing, supervising and training Pharmacy Homeopaths
• Promoting prescription sales and developing the business.
• To be innovative by developing new ways of working to meet the needs of patients and team.

Requirements

• Demonstrated professional experience from within a pharmacy business or health related retail environment
• Up-to-date Continued Professional Development (CPD) records to remain on the Pharmacy register with the GPC
• Experience in managing legal and compliance requirements for a pharmacy practice
• Excellent interpersonal and customer-facing skills, with the ability to communicate complex information while remaining sensitive to customers
• Discreet and conscious of the importance of maintaining confidentiality and adhering to all applicable GDPR / data protection requirements
• Relevant management experience, including individual and team development
• Agile and flexible in approach to work: can navigate a broad range of stakeholders and communicate well at all levels
• Ability to prioritise workload, use own initiative and display strong organisational skills
• Passionate about homeopathic and natural remedies, displays high level knowledge and a genuine personal interest in natural health; can act as an authentic promoter for our brands
• Confident user of IT systems

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Customer Service

• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations and Primary and Secondary Education

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