Support Pharmacist

BOOTS; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer is seeking a Pharmacist in London. The role involves not just dispensing medication but also providing patient care and expert advice, ensuring high standards of pharmacy operations while collaborating with healthcare teams. Ideal candidates will be registered pharmacists with a passion for community health and excellent communication skills.

Benefits

Competitive company pension scheme

Excellent staff discount

Discretionary bonus

25 days holiday

Flexible benefits package

Qualifications

• Commercially astute with knowledge of the healthcare industry.
• Strong communication skills for effective interactions.
• Passion for continuous learning and mandatory training.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer and patient care beyond dispensing medicine.
• Work with healthcare teams to deliver comprehensive care solutions.
• Accountable for professional pharmacy legal and ethical decisions.

Skills

Communication

Customer Care

Pharmacy Operations

Team Collaboration

Digital Literacy

Education

Registered with Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland

Job description

About Boots

We are Ireland's leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer. With over 90 stores in Ireland our purpose is to help our customers look and feel better than they thought possible. For over 25 years, we have used our expertise to help improve the health and wellbeing of local communities. Boots Ireland is part of the Retail Pharmacy International Division of Walgreens Boots Alliance.

What's in it for you?

Career Progression: You will be able to develop your career with a wide variety of opportunities. From continuing your professional development in clinical services, or progressing into store management we'll give you all the training and support you need from our award winning L&D team.

Variety: With the chance to work in the community, in busy retail stores, you will be able to do what you love. You'll be working in a fast paced, inspiring environment that allows you to deliver genuine care and build great relationships with your patients and customers, and your team.

Reward: You will receive a competitive company pension scheme, excellent staff discount, discretionary bonus and 25 days holiday along with having access to additional flexible benefits that allows you to create a package that suits your individual needs.

Responsibilities:

As a Pharmacist with us, it goes without saying you will be providing excellent customer and patient care that will be inspiring and reassuring. It's more than just dispensing medicine, it's looking after our customers and patients, listening to them and giving expert advice.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working in partnership with the healthcare team using your own intuition, expertise and experience to deliver complete care solutions for our customers and patients
• Setting the standard of what a brilliant pharmacy 'looks and feels like' from an operational perspective by working in partnership with your pharmacy healthcare team
• Delivering the pharmacy strategy through care conversations with customers and patients providing expert advice throughout
• Accountable for professional pharmacy legal & ethical decisions in the pharmacy
• Actively supporting the development, education & training of colleagues; building pharmacy capability of store teams
• Conducting regular reviews, audits and risk assessments to protect patient and public safety
• Work to deliver world class professional services - personally and through the pharmacy team.

Our ideal candidate

To be successful in this role you will have a professional, caring character and true desire to help others feel good. In addition you will:

• Be registered with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland
• Demonstrate high levels of professional expertise and be widely respected by stakeholders, peers, customers/patients and external local professionals
• Have excellent knowledge of pharmacy operations and provisions of national and local services
• Be commercially astute, understand the growth and development of the healthcare industry
• Role model first class communication skills, where you will hold excellent face to face interactions with all types of customers and patients
• Thrive in a team centred approach with strong collaborative working
• Have a passion for keeping up to date with your own learning and development, completing all Pharmacist mandatory and directed training
• Be digitally savvy and comfortable with navigating and embracing new technology.

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