Pharmacist

Boots UK; Whiteley Village; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmacy chain in the United Kingdom is seeking a Pharmacist to provide excellent patient care beyond just dispensing medicine. Key responsibilities include delivering expert advice, legal compliance, and enhancing pharmacy capabilities. Ideal candidates will be registered with relevant pharmacy regulators and demonstrate a passion for community pharmacy. This role offers various benefits, including generous employee discounts and retirement savings plans.

Benefits

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave

Discretionary annual bonus

Generous employee discounts

Access to learning resources

Qualifications

• Be registered with relevant pharmacy regulator (GPhC, PSNI, PSI).
• Demonstrate high levels of professional expertise.
• Passion for community pharmacy and providing the best care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver expert care and advice through pharmacy strategy.
• Be accountable for legal and ethical decisions.
• Conduct audits to ensure safety.

Skills

Customer care

Communication

Pharmacy operations knowledge

Collaborative teamwork

Ethical decision-making

Job description

Overview

Job Description: 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:

Responsibilities

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

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)