[Hiring] New to UK Pharmacist @Boots

Role 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:

• 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-centred 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)
• Additional benefits that go beyond salary and offer flexibility to suit you

Company Description

Boots is the UK’s largest community pharmacy chain, with over 2,000 stores nationwide and more than 170 years of history, making it the perfect place to start your journey as a New to UK Pharmacist.

• Exceptional, market-leading Support to Practice Programme to help you transition into pharmacy practice in the UK
• 12-week structured programme designed for EEA Pharmacists
• Hands-on training in an established store with an experienced pharmacist
• A dedicated mentor to guide you through UK pharmacy law, ethics, and best practices
• Two e-tests (at 6 weeks and 12 weeks) to ensure your readiness
• A clear pathway to a successful and rewarding pharmacy career with Boots