Pharmacist

Boots Opticians; Chester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent pharmacy chain in Chester is seeking a part-time Pharmacist to deliver exceptional patient care and advice. You will play a vital role in providing pharmacy services, handling prescriptions, and ensuring patient safety. Ideal candidates will be registered with the relevant pharmacy regulator and possess a passion for community pharmacy. This position offers various benefits including enhanced maternity leave and employee discounts.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Access to learning resources

Professional indemnity insurance

Qualifications

• Professional, caring character with a desire to help.
• High levels of professional expertise respected by stakeholders.
• Passion for community pharmacy.

Responsibilities

• Deliver expert care and advice to customers.
• Accountable for legal and ethical decisions in pharmacy.
• Conduct continuous reviews to ensure safety.

Skills

Customer service

Pharmacy operations knowledge

Excellent communication

Collaborative team player

Education

Registered with pharmacy regulator (GPhC, PSNI, PSI)

Job description

About the role

As a Pharmacist with us you’ll be providing excellent customer and patient care, it’s more than dispensing medicine, it’s listening and providing your expert advice and reassurance. Your main areas of responsibility will be:

• Delivering the pharmacy strategy through providing expert care and advice
• Accountable for legal and ethical decisions in the pharmacy
• Building the pharmacy capability of store teams
• Conducting continual review through audit, observations and risk assessment to ensure customer and patient safety is paramount
• Delivering a range of professional pharmacy services

What you’ll need to have

To be successful in this role you will have a professional, caring character and a true desire to help us change for the better. In addition you will:

• Be registered with relevant pharmacy regulator (GPhC, PSNI, PSI)
• Demonstrate high levels of professional expertise and be widely respected by stakeholders, peers, patients, customers and external local professionals
• Have a passion for community pharmacy and providing the best care for our customers.
• Be collaborative with a team-centered approach
• Have excellent knowledge of pharmacy operations and provisions of national and local services
• Be a great communicator; able to put people at ease and effectively meet the varied needs of our customers and patients

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Access to a range of learning and development resources and programmes
• Reimbursement of GPHC/GOC fees in full
• Contribution towards RPS fees
• Professional indemnity insurance with the option of selecting further free cover if you also work in Primary Care settings up to 3 days per week (subject to terms).

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards-benefits. Boots is not responsible for third-party site content. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, it\'s with you, we change for the better.

What\'s next

If successful on application, a member of the recruitment team will be in touch to find a time to discuss your application.

We are always open to discussing possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you, including job share and reduced hours. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

You will complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

Need To Know

We are excited to be offering the opportunity for a Pharmacist to join the team in our Healthcare Centre in Chester, Greyhound Retail Park!

Are you a service-driven Pharmacist? Within this role you will have a major impact on the delivery of key services, including prescribing and vaccination services (such as HPV, Chicken Pox, Travel Vaccination) and much more.

This is a fantastic role that will enable Pharmacists to develop their professional skills and operate in a clinical, and service-led environment.

This role offers a variety of fantastic benefits, including our double matched retirement savings plan, indemnity insurance cover, social, financial, healthcare and dental benefits, our sizeable employee discount and much, much more!

This position is part time, 16 hours per week and may include some weekend working.

For further information, please contact our Regional Recruitment Partner, Amy Mackley on [e-mail] or call 07827980580 for a confidential conversation.

Business Area Pharmacy

Function Pharmacist

Keywords Newly qualified Pharmacist, Newly qualified, Pharmacist, healthcare, pharmacy, in store pharmacist, Medicine, Medicines

Hours per week 16

Latitude,longitude 53.197695125,-2.917142056

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Airport No

Hours per week 16 to 24 hours per week

Company UK Stores

Division 16 - United Kingdom

Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site? No

Region 4 - Central

Area 127 - Wirral and Chester

Store 6413 - Chester Greyhound RP

Req Posted Date 18-Sep-2025

County Cheshire

Country UK

Address 1 1B Greyhound Park Rd

Address 2 Greyhound Retail Pk

Address 3 Chester