Pharmacy Team Manager

Well Pharmacy; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmacy chain in the UK is seeking a Pharmacy Team Manager to oversee pharmacy operations, ensure compliance with regulatory standards, and lead a high-performing team. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership and communication skills, a solid understanding of patient care, and the ability to drive business growth. This role offers competitive salaries, generous holiday allowances, and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Highly competitive salaries

Generous holiday allowance including bank holidays

Opportunity to gain further qualifications

Pension scheme

Employee discount scheme

Superb development and career opportunities

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Proven leadership and team management experience.
• Excellent communication skills for team interaction.
• Ability to grow market share and deliver results.
• Skilled in balancing professional standards and business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage pharmacy operations for patient safety and growth.
• Recruit and train a high-performing team.
• Build relationships with patients and healthcare professionals.
• Support the Responsible Pharmacist in ethical practice.

Skills

Leadership experience

Strong communication skills

Coaching skills

Commercial awareness

Organizational skills

Education

Qualified pharmacy professional

Job description

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Main Responsibility

Are you an inspiring leader with a passion for patient care and pharmacy excellence? We're looking for a Pharmacy Team Manager to take charge of our pharmacy operations, leading from the front to deliver outstanding standards in patient safety, customer service, and business growth.

About the role

As a Pharmacy Team Manager, you'll:

• Lead and manage all aspects of the pharmacy operation, ensuring compliance with NHS, GPhC/PSNI, and regulatory standards.
• Recruit, train, and develop a high-performing team who deliver exceptional patient and customer care.
• Drive growth in prescriptions, sales, profit, and local market share while maintaining professional trust and integrity.
• Build strong relationships with patients, customers, surgeries, and other healthcare professionals, becoming a trusted leader in your community.
• Support the Responsible Pharmacist in delivering safe, ethical, and effective pharmacy practice.

What we're looking for

• A qualified pharmacy professional with proven leadership and team management experience.
• Strong communication and coaching skills to inspire and develop colleagues.
• Commercial awareness with the ability to grow market share and deliver results.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to balance professional standards and business priorities.
• A proactive, solutions-focused leader who thrives on change and continuous improvement.

The Ideal Candidate

As a Pharmacy Team Manager, you will thrive on team, patient, and customer interaction, enjoy working at pace and with accuracy as well as be someone who is resilient, who enjoys constant change and challenges. You'll be motivated by leading a team to deliver tangible and measurable results and adaptable to each day.

Understanding of Community Pharmacy is desirable but not essential, but you will need excellent communication skills, able to build and maintain great relationships with your team and practice personnel as well as good commercial and analytical skills. You'll be effective at coaching and feedback skills as well as have good planning and organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities & allocate resource effectively.

Package Description

Highly competitive salaries

Generous holiday allowance including bank holidays

Opportunity to gain further qualifications

Pension scheme

Employee discount scheme

Superb development and career opportunities

Bonus scheme

About the Company

For over 70 years, we've been looking after the health and wellbeing of communities across the UK. Well Pharmacy (part of Bestway Healthcare) is the second largest pharmacy chain in the UK with c.760 pharmacies and a team of around 7,000 colleagues based across our Community Pharmacies, Online Pharmacy, Healthcare Services Centre, Community Drivers, Bestway Medhub & Wardles team and our Support Centre team.

Our mission is to be here for the wellbeing of our patients and customers, to provide the best community pharmacy experience in the UK for everyone, for our patients, our customers, our people, and our NHS.

The pharmacy of the future will look very different from the one we know today. It will play a huge role in transforming primary healthcare and we will play a central role in bringing it to life.

We will use our clinical expertise and technological ambition to take advantage of the potential this future has to offer us. Making medicines, advice, services and care available in the places and spaces that people need and want it most.

We want to be a great business. To be recognised as delivering a community pharmacy experience that is the best there is. To do this we want our teams to feel proud about the positive impact they make, feel valued as part of a close‑knit and expert community, and feel confident in their role in a business that is stable, innovative, and caring.

'Together we make a difference'

We're proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer. If you have any specific requirements, we will do everything we can to support you. Whether it is to find a pharmacy that is accessible, or if it is a part time position you are looking for, we can help find the role that is right for you. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process, we will be happy to accommodate you.

Please be aware that due to the high number of applications we receive it may not be possible for us to provide an outcome to all applicants. If you are not contacted within 28 days of your submission unfortunately you will have been unsuccessful.