About the role
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:
1. Delivering the pharmacy strategy through providing expert care and advice
2. Accountable for legal and ethical decisions in the pharmacy
3. Building the pharmacy capability of store teams
4. Conducting continual review through audit, observations and risk assessment to ensure customer and patient safety is paramount
5. 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:
1. Be registered with relevant pharmacy regulator (GPhC, PSNI, PSI)
2. Demonstrate high levels of professional expertise and be widely respected by stakeholders, peers, patients, customers and external local professionals
3. Have a passion for community pharmacy and providing the best care for our customers.
4. Be collaborative with a team-centered approach
5. Have excellent knowledge of pharmacy operations and provisions of national and local services
6. Be a great communicator; able to put people at ease and effectively meet the varied needs of our customers and patients
Need To Know
Boots are seeking a patient-focused, part-time store-based Pharmacist, to join our dedicated Pharmacy team on the High Street in Whitstable, Kent. You will be providing enhanced services that include NMS, Pharmacy first, flu vaccines, hypertension and contraception, etc.
This is an exciting opportunity for you to work within a busy, service lead store; you will have the support of a team of experienced ACT's, dispensers and pharmacy advisors, as well as a strong retail management support team and a dedicated Area Manager and Director of Stores.
This position comes with the opportunity to complete your independent prescribing qualification, fully funded by Boots!
Newly qualified pharmacists are very welcome to apply for this position.
This position is for 24 hours per week. Shift pattern is:
Week 1 - Monday, Thursday, Friday
Week 2 - Monday, Thursday, Saturday
This role offers a competitive base salary, and a substantial performance-based annual bonus as well as many other fantastic Boots benefits including our double matched Retirement savings plan, GPhC fees reimbursed, indemnity insurance cover, social, financial, healthcare and dental benefits, our sizeable employee discount and much, much more!
What's next
If successful on application, a member of the recruitment team will be in touch to find a time to discuss your application.
We are always open to discussing possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you, including job share and reduced hours. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.
You will complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.
Business Area: Pharmacy
Function: Pharmacist
Hours per week: 24
Location: 33-35 High Street, Whitstable, Kent, UK
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