Job Description

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

• 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

• 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).

Need To Know

Become a Relief Pharmacist at Boots and work at Poole Hospital!

We are seeking a patient-focused Relief Pharmacist to join our team to support our customers across Poole, including community and hospital pharmacy environments.

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.

We have a strong, dedicated planning team who will present your rota to you at least 12 weeks in advance.

We will consider newly qualified pharmacists for this position.

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

This position offers a strong base salary, PLUS a substantial, performance-based annual bonus and a location bonus of up to £4000!

You will also be entitled to a variety of fantastic Boots benefits including our double matched retirement savings plan and sizeable employee discount!

Please contact our Regional 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

Latitude,longitude 1

50.721934383,-1.973009221

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Weekdays and Weekends

Airport

No

Hours per week

Over 35 hours per week

Company

UK Stores

Division

16 - United Kingdom

Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site?

No

Region

17 - Hospitals

Area

220 - Hospitals South

Store

2257 - Poole Longfleet Road

Req Posted Date

18-Aug-2025

County

Dorset

Country

UK

Address 1

Longfleet Road

Address 3

Poole