Pharmacy Technician

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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 care for patients. We aim to provide the very best service legally and ethically.

Accuracy and care define this role. You will oversee the safe and effective operation of the pharmacy and healthcare business, lead the daily dispensary activities, and be an expert in the technical aspects of medicine supply while delivering excellent patient care.

Guiding and supporting your pharmacy team and collaborating 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 deliver the safe and effective running of the pharmacy and healthcare business, and lead the day-to-day running of the dispensary.

Your duties will include:

• Responsibility for legal, safe & ethical decision-making in the pharmacy.
• Delivering on-target delivery of items and services income.
• Complying with legal and professional requirements and accepted guidance on professional practice in Boots.
• Tailoring conversations with every customer to ensure they leave your pharmacy feeling informed and confident about their healthcare needs and coaching other pharmacy team members to do the same.
• Seeking opportunities to engage external stakeholders to secure locally commissioned services and promote services and items.
• Delivering efficient dispensary operations and minimizing dispensing losses.
• Ordering medicines, labeling, dispensing, endorsing, and checking prescriptions.

What you’ll need to have.

We’re offering an exciting career opportunity to continue your professional and pharmacy journey. You will need an NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services (or equivalent), and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

We value genuine passion for customer care, leadership in the dispensary team, and the ability to support pharmacy strategies.

To work within our dispensaries, you should have completed a Medicines Counter Assistant (NVQ2) qualification or equivalent. You may wish to become an Accuracy Checking Technician (ACT); we provide training and support for this role. As you develop your healthcare knowledge through these qualifications, your pay and benefits will reflect this.

This is just one of several career routes within Boots!

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, embracing diversity and providing a positive, inclusive working 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 considers applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis. You can discuss this with us before a decision is made.

Our Benefits.

We offer a range of benefits beyond salary, including:

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

*All rewards and benefits are subject to change and eligibility.