About the role

As a Relief 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. You won't be based from one pharmacy, but provide service to customers and patients across a range of pharmacies. 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

What you’ll need to have

To be successful in this role you will have a professional, caring character and a true desire to help us change for the better. In addition you will:

• 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

Our 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).

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at Boots jobs rewards. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Need To Know

We are seeking a patient centered Relief Pharmacist to join our Boots pharmacy teams across the Calne, Chippenham, Corsham, Marlborough and Pewsey area!

As a Relief Pharmacist for Boots, you will:

• Gain confidence quickly.
• Experience different stores and different challenges.
• Receive flexible work patterns.
• Learn best practice to share with other stores.
• Receive paid transportation at 45 pence per mile

You would ordinarily be placed across 2-3 store maximum and our dedicated planning team will resent your rota to you at least 12 weeks in advance.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to work within busy service lead stores; you will have the support of Pharmacy Technicians (with checking), Dispensers and Pharmacy Advisors, as well as a retail management support teams.

Newly Qualified pharmacists are very welcome to apply for this position.

Although this is advertised as a full-time position, part-time working hours will be considered.

Boots offer a competitive salary, plus a generous location honorarium and a substantial annual performance-based bonus as well as many other fantastic Boots benefits including our double matched retirement savings plan!

For further information, please contact our Recruitment Partner, Amy Mackley on amy.mackley@boots.co.uk or call 07827980580.

Business Area

Pharmacy

Function

Pharmacist

Keywords

Newly qualified Pharmacist, Newly qualified, Pharmacist, healthcare, pharmacy, in store pharmacist, Medicine, Medicines

Hours per week 40

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Minimum requirements Newly qualified Pharmacist; registered with GPhC/PSNI/PSI; strong communication skills; customer-centered approach.